CIA Assessment: The Resistance Cannot Be Crushed
Kit Klarenberg Substack The Judaeo-American war on Iran was intended to be a lightning strike routing, fought exclusively from the air, lasting only a few days. Instead, Washington and its…
Kiriakou: The Iran War Was Launched on a Whim — and the White House Ignored Its Own Intelligence
ScheerPost Staff War planners in Washington once spent months gaming out how a U.S. strike on Iran would ignite the region. This time, it took a whim, a whisper campaign,…
Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg Would Crash the World Economy
Juan Cole for Informed Comment President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if Tehran continued to obstruct shipping through the Strait of…
DAY 14: WAR ON IRAN
U.S. bombs Kharg Island military targets and announces deployment of 2,500 Marines to the region as the war completes two weeks of destruction. Joe Lauria for Consortium News Attack on…
A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin from FAIR This week on CounterSpin: House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Brian Mast declared of Iran: “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American both at…
Spies, Signals, and the Shadow War Between Iran and Israel
ScheerPost Staff For years, Washington and Tel Aviv sold the world a simple story: Iran is the master of covert destabilization, the shadowy hand behind infiltration, sabotage, and political manipulation…
From Tehran to Beirut: A War Spreading Faster Than Diplomacy
ScheerPost Staff Live updates from the Middle East Monitor among others “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said attacks launched by the US and Israel against Iran have affected several…
In First Statement, Iran’s New Leader Says Strait of Hormuz Will Remain Closed and Attacks on US Bases Will Continue
Dave DeCamp for Antiwar.com Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father as the new supreme leader of Iran, issued his first statement on Thursday, where he said the Strait…
The Distortions And Moral Rot Behind The War On Iran
Nate Baer Do Not Panic Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney said today he condemns Iran’s attacks on civilians and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Not a…
With No Mention of US-Israeli Aggression, UN Security Council Condemns Iranian Retaliation
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Gulf nations without denouncing—or even mentioning—the illegal US and Israeli…
WATCH: UN Security Council Blames Iran
Joe Lauria Consortium News Russia and China failed to veto a resolution that blatantly blamed the victim rather than the aggressor in the war against Iran. Neither Russia nor China…
“Iran Will Decide When this Ends:” Juan Cole on Sam Seder’s “Majority Report”
Juan Cole for Informed Comment On Tuesday I was a guest on Sam Seder’s “Majority Report.” Sam and I have been having conversations about world affairs for a couple of…
A “Sheer and Utter Lie” that Iran Posed an Imminent Threat before US Attacks on February 28, says Tehran
Abdul Rahman Peoples Dispatch Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi rejected claims by US President Donald Trump’s that the US-Israeli attacks were “preemptive” and said it was just an attempt to…
$20K Drones vs $4M Missiles — Norton Explains Why the U.S. Is Losing the War It Started
ScheerPost Staff Journalist Ben Norton lays out the brutal logic of Iran’s asymmetric counteroffensive — and the global economic catastrophe it’s already unleashing. As Norton explains, Tehran has closed the…
“It’s a Lawless World Led by Idiots”
Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran enters its second week, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges delivers one of the most blistering indictments yet of the political class steering…