US and Iran

International community condemns assassination in Tehran

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 59, was assassinated on Friday in a sophisticated ambush on his vehicle, in the Iranian city of Absard, near Tehran. The nuclear scientist headed the Research and Technological Renewal Department in the Ministry of Defense. Senior Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, said that Israel was […]

The end of the war in Syria will come as part of the agreement between Iran and China,” says Iranian foreign policy analyst

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator As the US changes leadership, new opportunities for re-alignment may open up for the Middle East and the wider region.  To understand more fully the implications presented in conflicts ranging from the US-Iran tension, the Syrian war, and the role of Turkey and Israel in the destabilization of the […]

How the US Isolated Itself on Iran, and Trump’s Pullback

Submitted by Steve Brown…
It was the duplicity of the former United States that caused it to withdraw from the JCPOA agreement — not any violation of that agreement by Iran. And it is the United States that provoked Iran to the verge of war.  It is the United States Treasury too, that presses crippling economic sanctions on Iran – not the other way around.