This news will only bring belligerence on all sides (Iran, Israel and the US), though the hardline Zionist lobby will be rapt: A new round of international sanctions against Iran looked almost inevitable today, after the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei said talks with the Islamic republic were at a “stalemate”, and…
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Western values are not a danger for Iranian youth
Iran, already undergoing a massive crackdown against anybody not subscribing to the fundamentalist mindset, is seemingly about to take an even darker turn: A hard-line deputy of Iran’s supreme leader announced steps Sunday to purge Iranian universities of Western influences even as the government faced accusations of “fascism and totalitarianism” leveled by the country’s former…
The Islamic Republic allows blogging from prison
Former Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi is currently suffering a sham trial for allegedly backing the recent “coup” against the elected government. It’s all bollocks, of course, as this Washington Post piece explains: Abtahi has been allowed to continue blogging from his prison cell by his “good friend the interrogator,” he writes, and he…
When killing Iranians is your primary Jewish goal
The singular aim of Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick (a woman with form) is depressingly lacking in foresight, originality, morality or legality: What can Israel do to prevent Iran from further expanding its nuclear capacity and block it from emerging as a nuclear power? The answer to this question is the same as it has…
Who will stop these Lockerbie lies?
William Blum, author of Killing Hope, on just the latest “outrage” about terrorism: If there’s anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push…
Obama and his good friends in the far-left media
Medialens provides a corrective to the “liberal” Guardian over its blind repeating of US government talking points regarding Israel and Iran: On August 26, the Guardian newspaper published an article titled, ‘US takes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran’s nuclear programme in one massive gamble.’ Julian Borger and Ewen MacAskill told readers: “The Obama administration’s approach…
Naomi Klein speaks for many of us on Palestine
Canadian journalist and author Noami Klein, one of the world’s leading critics of Israel and militarism and a relatively recent supporter of a boycott movement against Israel, tells Alternet why highlighting Israeli “normality” is so essential: Well, it has to do with the fact that the Israeli government openly uses culture as a military tool.…
Please don’t bomb Iran today or tomorrow
Israel and mad Zionists everywhere, are you listening? Mohamed ElBaradei, outgoing chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has called the Iranian threat “hyped,” saying there is no proof the Islamic republic will soon have nuclear weapons. “In many ways, I think the threat has been hyped,” ElBaradei told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists…
Iranians have long believed in the power of the net
American writer and broadcaster Cyrus Farivar has a forthcoming book about the web, The Internet of Elsewhere (Rutgers University Press, 2011). He’ll be focusing on a number of countries, including Iran. World Politics Online has published an extract (it’s mostly behind a fire-wall but free trial should help): On June 20, 2009, as she watched…
Is Iran soon to be hit without US backing?
Micah Zenko, fellow in the Centre for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes in the Los Angeles Times that the Islamic Republic should get prepared: Iran has until late September to respond to the latest international proposal aimed at stopping the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon. Under the proposal, Iran…