Top 8 Political and Geopolitical Shifts in the Middle East in 2022
By Juan Cole | Informed Comment We saw a lot of pivotal developments in the Middle East this year, including the impact of climate change in the form of increasing…
UN Experts: US Sanctions Violate Iranians’ Human Rights
Top United Nations experts wrote a letter to the United States government, emphasizing that its illegal unilateral sanctions on Iran violate the human rights of the Iranian people, calling for…
US Trial of Venezuela’s Alex Saab Exposes Diplomatic Espionage
Reporting from inside the federal courtroom where the US is prosecuting Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, The Grayzone learns of disturbing acts of diplomatic espionage. Saab’s advocates insist he is imprisoned…
Why Iran’s National Strike Is a Huge Deal
As Iranians in 23 provinces join in on national strikes and truckers and shopkeepers walk out, the Iranian government has plenty of reasons to fear the staying power of these…
Patrick Lawrence: Biden Sides With Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Among our mentally impaired president’s more prominent campaign pledges during the 2020 political campaigns was that his national security people would negotiate America’s…
Wow, It’s Actually Happening
Lee Camp breaks down Patrick Lawrence's latest ScheerPost article, "Non-West Coalesces Against U.S. Empire."
Iranian Police Fire on Demonstrators Attending Mahsa Amini Memorial
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wednesday was the fortieth day after the death of the Kurdish young woman, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, 22, in the…
In Iran, Women Are at the Vanguard of Transformative Change Once Again
Although the uprising following Mahsa Amini’s death may seem unprecedented, it is in fact part of a deep-rooted and longstanding resistance movement by women in Iran.
What American and Iranian Theocrats Have in Common
From veiling to abortion, Iran’s theocrats seek to control women’s bodies, just as U.S. Republican theocrats do.
UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the End of All Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran
Alena Douhan also expressed the need to create a legal framework to prevent countries such as the US taking unilateral action against others.
Why the US and Israeli Right Really Hate the Iran Nuclear Deal
What do right-wingers in both countries actually want to happen in Iran?
Patrick Lawrence: 21st Century Order
As a piece of the new world order that is under construction, Putin’s trip to Tehran last week was of singular importance.
Russia-Iran Relations Take a Quantum Leap
President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tehran on Tuesday is invested with great importance, as Iran is becoming one of the most consequential relationships for Russia
Chris Hedges: War with Iran
The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
John Kiriakou: Biden the Warmonger Gets Played by the Saudis
A fistbump with a torturer doesn’t pay off with cheap oil to grease the president’s growing lust for war.