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US Should Lift Economic Sanctions to Avoid More Deaths From Pandemic

March 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Iran, Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), published on TeleSUR English, March 18, 2020 The U.S. government should immediately lift economic sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and other countries to avoid unnecessary deaths and more extensive propagation of the pandemic, said economist Jeffrey Sachs, professor, and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. While sanctions already[…]

End Sanctions on Iran Petition

March 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Iran, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Iran is suffering terribly from the the combination of a serious outbreak of the novel coronavirus and US sanctions which make it difficult if not impossible for the Iranian state to acquire the resources necessary to fight the virus. The result is a high death toll. Meanwhile, just this week, the US (Congress and the Trump Administration) increased the severity[…]

US vs Iran, Which Side Are You On?

March 9, 2020 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Iran

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, January 30, 2020 On the brink of war with Iran the Trump administration presented to the American public and to the world the following stated or implied theses: That the U.S. was a civilized nation intent on preventing “terrorist nations” like Iran from destroying the world with nuclear weapons. That as the chief[…]

The NYT’s Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran

August 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Iran, Propaganda

by Gregory Shupak, from FAIR, August 9, 2019 The New York Times has published five editorials since the beginning of May that are ostensibly critical of a possible military war between the United States and Iran. As anti-war arguments, however, they are woefully lacking—vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and hiding US aggression towards Iran. The editorials[…]

Another Perspective on Middle East Peace

August 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Iran, Middle East Wars, Political Analysis, Russia, Syria

by Pepe Escobar, published on Information Clearing House, August 6, 2019 Russia is meticulously advancing Eurasian chessboard moves that should be observed in conjunction, as Moscow proposes to the Global South an approach diametrically opposed to Western sanctions, threats and economic war. Here are three recent examples. Ten days ago, via a document officially approved by the United Nations, the[…]

An Open Letter from an Iran War Veteran to Donald Trump

August 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Iran

by Habib Ahmadzadeh, first published on CodePink Website Don’t Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess Dear President Trump, In a recent Tweet, you claimed that “Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation.” As a world citizen and a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, I have firsthand experience with the bitterness of war, and I have[…]

US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero

July 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Economic Blockade, Featured, Hybrid Warfare, Iran, Political Analysis, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Pepe Escobar, published on Consortium News, July 25, 2019 All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end the war in Afghanistan and wipe it “off the face of the earth” in one week. But he’d rather not,[…]

Iran – Seizure of a British Tanker – more than Tit for Tat

July 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Iran

by Peter Koenig, published on CounterCurrents, July 25, 2019 The British-flagged tanker “Steno Impero”, heading for Saudi Arabia, was seized on Friday, 19 July 2019, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the Strait of Hormuz, after it rammed an Iranian fishing boat, whose distress call it ignored. The tanker was taken to an Iranian port, because it was[…]

An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue

July 4, 2019 UNAC Editor Iran, Nuclear Agendas

Kathy Kelly June 25, 2019 Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for example, is in danger of losing access to medicines because sanctions against Iranian banks make it nearly impossible to pay for[…]

As Conflict With Iran Escalates, Path To Peace Can Be Found

July 4, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Iran, Political Analysis

by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Published in the Popular Resistance Newsletter, June 23, 2019 The recent escalation of conflict between the United States and Iran threatens another US military quagmire that would create crisis and chaos in Iran, the region and perhaps globally as well as costing the US trillions of dollars. The US needs to change course —[…]