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The Escalator Grinds to a Halt

by Paul Larudee, October 26, 2024 It is apparently not much of an exaggeration to say that Israel’s attack on Iran fizzled. Some targets were hit and at least two Iranian soldiers were killed, but the ineffectiveness of the operation was probably due to several factors: Israel just doesn’t have the weaponry. Most of its missiles don’t have the distance,[…]

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NYT’s Warmonger Bret Stephens Says the U.S. Must Attack Iran: Some Necessary Iran-US history

by Joseph Palermo, published on Socialist Action, October 8, 2024 Reprinted from The LA Progressive [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below Joseph Polermo’s Los Angeles Progressive factual account obliterating NYT’s rightwing editorialist Bret Stephen’s call for a punishing US war against Iran for its recent retaliatory firing of missiles on the genocidal Zionist Israeli entity. Polermo more than adequately[…]

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The Resistance Axis Evaluates The Field: Beginning a Second Year of War with Greater Confidence

by Syed Akif Zaidi in Palestine, published on Countercurrents, 09/10/2024 An entire year has now passed since the Palestinian uprising of October 7. As we enter the second year of this war, it is important to take stock of the ways in which a year of war has changed the geopolitical situation and balance of power in West Asia and[…]

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Iran’s Retaliatory Strikes on Israel were Legal and in Self-Defense

UNAC Statement, October 3, 2024 Iran executed a legal and legitimate response to provocations by Israel following illegal terrorist attacks by the Zionist regime that targeted Iranian nationals and interests, infringing upon Iran’s sovereignty. In accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Iran launched over 200 ballistic missiles at military targets in Israel on Tuesday. These strikes directly[…]

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Houthi Red Sea Crisis Rages On as US Admits Its Impotence and Asks China to Help

by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, January 26, 2024 The Financial Times reported that, over the last three months, Washington has repeatedly asked Beijing to pressure Iran into curbing the Houthi rebels. Both the White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly talked about the matter with their Chinese counterparts. Sullivan is even flying[…]

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The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani

by Judith Bello, published on Syria Support Movement, January 22, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year.   The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to attend memorial events for Qasem[…]

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Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis

by The Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent, published on The Cradle, January 17, 2024 Iraqi security sources are warning of an ISIS revival in the country, which coincides all too neatly with the spike in Iraqi resistance operations against US bases in Iraq and Syria, and with widening regional instability caused by Israel’s military assault on Gaza. More than six years after[…]

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 98: Israel Claims ‘Self Defense’ at ICJ, as U.S. and U.K. Launch Air Strikes on Yemen

by Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau, published on Mondoweiss, January 11, 2024 Casualties: 23,708 killed* and at least 60,005 wounded in the Gaza Strip. 385+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147. 520 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 2,193 injured.** *This figure[…]

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Did Israel Kill Iranian Commander to Provoke a Wider War?

by Trita Parsi, published on Responsible Statecraft, December 26, 2023 Iran’s top commander in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi, was assassinated Sunday by an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This has led Tehran to call for reprisals, ratcheting up fears that this[…]

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US And Israel Poised To Open Lebanon Front

by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Popular Resistance, November 10, 2023 An analysis of developments in the past few days. Including the U.S. announcement that it is deploying a huge nuclear submarine near the war zone. The announcement late Sunday night by the U.S. Central Command headquartered in Doha about the arrival of an Ohio-class U.S. nuclear submarine in its “area[…]

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