A fairly dangerous situation involving Iran has seemingly remained unchanged for some time now. Each side is waiting for its adversary to make the next move, but no one is taking any decisive actions as yet. They are, at present, equalizing their positions and evaluating pluses and minuses. In the meantime, more and more questions are arising among members of the global community about the peculiar downing of a Ukrainian plane in Iran.
Israel says Mohammed, Salem and Mahmoud snuck into Israel and attacked the army - but their relatives reject this version of events.
The chain of events which has unfolded since late December has the potential the change the geopolitical shape of the Middle East for decades. Will Iraq successfully remove all foreign forces from their country? Is the region edging closer to war again?
(TMU) — Iraq’s parliament voted last month to expel the U.S. troops who have been occupying the country for nearly twenty years. However, the United States government has refused to comply with the order and has threatened harsh sanctions if they are forced to leave. The presence of the United States military is unwelcome in Iraq and the rest of the […]
By Greg Felton | Institute for Political Economy | January 22, 2020 A government, whatever its nature, rules as an imperial power over its people. The surest way to exercise this control is to prop up the illusion that it acts in the public interest. Paul Craig Roberts and Alvin Rabushka spelled out this salient […]
“Iraq caught between a rock and a hard place”, “Iraq between the hammer and the anvil” and similar headlines in Iraqi news reflect public reactions towards recent events within the nation. We are referring here to the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al‑Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), by Americans at Baghdad airport on 3 January of this year.
By Jim Kavanagh | The Polemicist | January 23, 2020 “Praise be to God, who made our enemies fools.” – Ayatollah Khamenei The Killing I’ve been writing and speaking for months about the looming danger of war with Iran, often to considerable skepticism. In June, in an essay entitled “Eve of Destruction: Iran Strikes Back,” […]
Ahrar Al Sharqiya militant testing out US supplied TOW Missile unit in Aleppo countryside (Image: SMMS)
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