Is China Trump’s Only Hope For Ending The Iran War?
Trita Parsi Tom Pickering Responsible Statecraft US interests in both the Middle East and Asia would be best served by cooperation with Beijing The current war with Iran and its…
Strangling Iran Economically Targets Civilians and Should Be Treated as a Human Rights Violation
Austin Sarat ScheerPost On September 8, the Trump Administration announced a new round of sanctions targeting aviation and companies that service some of Iran’s privately owned airlines. This followed last…
Iran Strikes Vital Facilities As Evidence Emerges Of US Invasion Preparations
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have again been struck by ballistic missiles and drones, while evidence has emerged that the US…
On the Edge of the Abyss: Putin’s Nuclear Warning, Trump’s Iran Brinkmanship and Europe’s Revolt
Consortium News This week: 1. Putin’s Warning; 2. New US Warship to Iran; 3. The Crisis of Europe: French Students Burn Their Schools PLUS: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty. Joe Lauria…
Iran’s Teachers Movement Perseveres Against All Odds
Duaa e Zahra Shah Waging Nonviolence After the brutal January 2026 crackdown, teachers unions in Iran are not backing down on their demands for fair wages, free education and free…
Why the Iran War Equation Is Changing, and Why a Third War May Be Closer Than It Seems
Mohammad Amin Ahmadi Informed Comment It appears that the main actors involved in the previous 40-day war are increasingly moving toward another confrontation for their own reasons. The regional equation…
Vietnamese Press: US Military Withdrawal From Iraq A Victory For Tehran
Juan Cole Informed Comment I was a little surprised to see that the Vietnamese internet news agency Vietnam.vn has an Arabic service. It carried an article yesterday from the newspaper…
Amid Hormuz Energy Crisis, Renewables Generate 61% Of Turkish Electricity
Juan Cole Informed Comment In the first seven months of 2026, Turkiye generated 61% of its electricity from renewable sources. Since hydro and solar generation have seasonal peaks, that rate…
‘Never Fails to Disappoint’: Fetterman Joins GOP to Keep Trump’s Iran War Going
Jon Queally Common Dreams “This reckless war has cost American lives, innocent lives, tens of billions of dollars, and higher prices on nearly everything here at home. John and 49…
Jeffrey Sachs: Stop Mad King Donald’s Iran War
Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the U.N., Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,”…
Defiant Iran Responds To Trump
Consortium News Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Donald Trump Iran will never stop resisting U.S. terror. A day after Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran, the Islamic Republic’s president told…
The Iran War And The Looming Economic Collapse (w/ John Mearsheimer) | TCHR
Chris Hedges and John J. Mearsheimer For all of President Trump’s recent threats to “annihilate Iran,” the reality is that the United States is running out of both options and…
Iran Launches Surprise Attacks On US Bases As Trump Covers Up Soldier Casualties
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Iran’s IRGC has been striking various US targets and an average of two to three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on a daily basis, as…