This is how demonised Iran has become in the global media. Tehran announces a small development and tiny outlay ($8 million is change) and it’s lead story in the Jerusalem Post (with its URL under “Iranian Threat”): Iran’s nuclear agency began studies Saturday to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to…
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Ahmadinejad wants a good bombing campaign
The ongoing guessing game over America bombing Iran. Steve Clemons claims it’s highly unlikely that Barack Obama will order a strike against Tehran, a god-send for the mullahs. As for Israel launching a strike, that’s maybe another story.
Aslan says 2-state solution is dead, and Indyk calls him a liar
My following article is published today on US website Mondoweiss: “The future of relations with the Muslim world” was the UN-sponsored event hosted at the New York Times building in central Manhattan on 21 July. Filled with journalists from Egypt, China and Turkey and the foreign policy establishment, roughly 150 people came to hear Roger…
Interview with New York’s Indypendent on Palestine, peace, BDS and the MSM
Here’s my interview published today by a leading New York publication, The Indypendent. It was conducted by wonderful young journalist Alex Kane: With “peace talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel seeming more and more like a dead end, many people around the world, including dissident Jewish voices, are turning to grassroots activism to pressure…
Conflict Kitchen brings understanding to the eating ritual
This is perhaps the best idea I’ve heard in ages: Welcome to Conflict Kitchen’s first iteration, Kubideh Kitchen. Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months…
Iran has no nuclear program, says Iranian
Don’t believe the hype; America may well have kidnapped a man with little or no intelligence value. Democracy at work: Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there…
West Bank and Gaza separated by more than space
While American neo-cons (many of them Jewish) continue to push for a military strike against Iran and Israeli “democracy” decreases by the day – witness the story of a key Jewish dissident, Yonatan Shapira, being interrogated by Israeli intelligence for daring to support BDS. Hilariously, he’s asked to feel sorry for soldiers maintaining the West…
Growing worldwide pressure on Iran only worsens lives inside the Islamic Republic
A worrying story in the New York Times that indicates Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government is cracking down even harder on those not sharing his fundamentalist reading of Islam. The paper regularly publishes propaganda against Tehran but this report correspondents with other stories in the blogosphere.
Beijing isn’t Washington’s replacement for Tel Aviv
China, Israel and the Jews; a long, tortuous, sometimes mutually beneficial relationship. But if Israel expects to have found a newfound friend in a post-American world, think again: It is hard to say just how much influence Israel has on China. Israel can’t expect the Chinese to come to its defense, diplomatically or otherwise. There’s…
Has Washington just experienced an Iranian spy in its midst?
The curious case of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri and his recent return to Tehran raises many fascinating questions, not least what happened to him over the last 18 months. Tehran Bureau wonders whether he may have been an Iranian double agent: The…possibility is that his defection was fake and that Amiri was in fact tasked…