RT | June 12, 2019 The US Treasury Department announced sanctions on Wednesday against two Iraq-based persons and one company, for their alleged links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Makki Kazim and Mohammed Hussein, along with the South Wealth Resources Company have all been hit with secondary sanctions, according to the Treasury Department website. Secondary sanctions […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | June 10, 2019 With two days to go for the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tehran on a peace mission to promote US-Iran talks, a great deal of shadow boxing has been going on. Typically, there is much excitement in the media. Thus, western […]
By Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation | June 10, 2019 Little doubt: it was intentional, a tactical ploy. Trump initially appeared to distance himself from the hawkishness of his team on Iran, by saying that ‘no’, he didn’t want war: No – really, he only wanted the Iranians to call him. He even riffs […]
By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – 08.06.2019 In a highly surprising move, Iran’s foreign minister, on an unscheduled and unannounced visit to Pakistan on Thursday (May the 23rd), announced the proposal to link Pakistan’s port of Gwadar with Iran’s Chabahar port. This announcement signals tectonic geo-political shift taking place in the region […]
RT | June 8, 2019 The sanctions imposed by the US against Iranian petrochemical companies prove that Mike Pompeo’s earlier promise of negotiations without preconditions was nothing but a bluff, a senior Iranian diplomat said. On Friday, the US Treasury announced it has imposed a new wave of sanctions against Iranian energy businesses. The move […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Press TV – June 7, 2019 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has categorically rejected a claim by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about Iran’s missile program, saying Tehran does not seek to develop nuclear weapons. “Our missiles are not ‘designed’ for nukes, which we’re not developing,” Zarif […]
By Whitney Webb | MintPress News | June 3, 2019 In early May, MSNBC news host Rachel Maddow — known as one of the top promoters of the new Cold War and Russiagate in American media — emphatically endorsed regime change in Venezuela after she claimed that President Donald Trump’s hawkishness towards the South American […]
Strategic Culture Foundation | May 31, 2019 If US President Donald Trump thinks that by merely saying he doesn’t want regime change in Iran, he can then inveigle the Iranians into talks, he is woefully mistaken. This week during a state visit to Japan, fresh from watching a bout of Sumo wrestling, the American president […]
Press TV – May 29, 2019 Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ruled out the possibility of talks between Tehran and Washington, saying such negotiations will be “fruitless”, “harmful”, and “a total loss”. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will absolutely not sit for talks with America … because first, it bears […]
Al-Manar | May 28, 2019 Noting Iran’s proposal for signing a non-aggression pact with regional countries, FM spokesman Mousavi said there is currently no prospect for talks with US. “The Persian Gulf littoral states are among the most important neighboring countries for Iran; therefore, what foreign minister Zarif has put forward- i.e. the non-aggression pact- […]
