OMNI
IRAN ANTHOLOGY #33
OCTOBER 22, 2024.
COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND
JUSTICE
(#11 Oct. 8, 2011;
#12 Jan. 31, 2012; #13 Feb. 22, 2012; #14 Feb. 26, 2012; #15 March 17, 2012;
#16 April 12, 2012; #17 May 21, 2012; #18, July 9, 2012; #19 August 13, 2012;
#20 Sept. 10, 2012; #21, Dec. 14, 2012; #22 March 5, 2013; #23 Nov. 12, 2013;
#24 March 5, 2014; #25 January 17, 2015; #26, July 28, 2015; #27, June 3, 2018;
#28, June 21, 2019; #29, July 11, 2019; #30, August 9, 2019; #31, August 23,
2019; #32, July 25, 2022.)
What’s at stake:
Preventing a war should be our chief preoccupation; stopping one our
second; except for decreasing climate change.
CONTENTS IRAN
ANTHOLOGY #33
Morrigan Johnson. “China
Brokered Peace Agreement Between Saudi Arabia and Iran.”
Alan MacLeod. “The Shadowy
Intelligence-Linked Group Driving The US To War With Iran.”
Abby Martin. “Did Trump Order Iran Assassination?” [of
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh].
Eric Walberg. [More on the
Assassination.]
Scott Ritter. [Iran is Not Paying Bounties.]
Finian Cunningham. [US and British “mad
hubris in the present mounting tensions with Iran.”]
Gregory Shupak.
“For US Media, Iran Is Always Threatening, Not Threatened.”
Michael
Arria. “‘The assassination of Qasem
Soleimani was an act of war’.”
Mark Fancher. “Beware Imperialist
Gaslighting: Assassination Is Not Legal.”
Max Blumenthal. Iraqi PM reveals Trump’s lie regarding
the assassination of Soleimani.
Vijay
Prashad. US v. Iran in Straight of
Hormuz.
Prashad. “Trump’s ‘diplomacy’ in Iran is a Cynical
Farce.”
Prashad. “Dossier 19: Iranians Will Not Forget. The Hybrid War
Against Iran.”
Suvrat Raju. “Imperial Overreach
in Iran.”
Vijay Prashad. “Why the world is watching the
fate of an Iranian tanker in the Mediterranean.”
“Iran charges US with destabilizing actions as UN chief urges restraint.”
Jim Lobe. “WAR AGAINST IRAN BECOMING EVER MORE LIKELY.”
“Pro-Peace
Coalition Delivers Petition Urging Congress to Block Trump's Path to War With
Iran.”
“Sanders Launches Petition Urging
Lawmakers to Block Military Action Against Iran Without Congressional Approval.”
Local Peace Letters and Actions to Prevent Iran War
SOURCES
Why is CNN not on this list? Or the NYT? Or Washington Post?
Black Agenda Report
Common Dreams
CovertAction Magazine
Empire Files.
Extra!
The Grayzone.
Lobelog.
Mintpress News.
Mondoweiss.
mronline.org
Popular Resistance.
Research Unit of
Political Economy
Reuters.
RT.
Sputnik News.
Tricontinental:
Institute for Social Research
TEXTS
Morrigan Johnson. “China
Brokered Peace Agreement Between Saudi Arabia and Iran Marks End of Era of
American Unipolar Power.” CovertAction Magazine (4-16-23).
A historic peace deal was announced March 10,
2023, with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran
adopting a trilateral peace agreement brokered by the People’s Republic of
China. READ MORE →
“US HOSTILITY TOWARD IRAN. The Shadowy
Intelligence-Linked Group Driving The US To War With Iran” By Alan MacLeod, Mintpress
News. PopularResistance.org
(1-14-23). Most of the world has
watched the Israeli assault on Gaza in horror. As tens of thousands have been
killed and millions displaced, tens of millions of people around the world have
poured onto the streets to demand an end to the violence. But a few select
others have taken to the pages of our most influential media to demand an
escalation of the violence and that the United States help Israel strike not
just Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon but Iran as well. “I might have once favored
a cease-fire with Hamas, but not now,” wrote Bush-era diplomat Dennis
Ross in The New York Times, explaining that ... -more-
[Two
articles on the assassination a nuclear scientists.]
Abby Martin. “Did Trump
Order Iran Assassination?” (12-3-20) By
Abby Martin, Empire Files. PopularResistance.org This is Abby Martin with your Empire Update wrapping up the
last week of US imperialism. Our first story is about a brazen terrorist
attack that murdered a civilian. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh,
one of the most important nuclear scientists in Iran, was assassinated on
November 27 by unknown gunmen. Here's what we know so far. First, only two
countries are likely culprits who have also done so in the past, the United
States and Israel. From 2010 to 2012, back during the Obama
administration, four nuclear scientists were killed in Iran. -more-
Eric
Walberg. “Iran in the
Crosshairs: Tracing Overt and Covert Action.” , CovertAction
Magazine. Nov 28, 2020.
The assassination of
Iran’s top nuclear scientist and professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has
seriously complicated any efforts to normalize relations with Iran under a new Biden
administration. Walberg contrasts the republican and democratic positions
toward Iran while tracing key historical and recent events all in an effort to
provide deeper insight into understanding Iran and U.S.-led …. Read in browser »
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Scott Ritter. “Saying Iran
Is Paying Bounties To Kill Americans Is Pure Parody.” RT.
Popular Resistance.org (8-21-20). It was Russia in
June, now it’s Tehran. Don’t US analysts understand that Taliban fighters
really don’t need any more motivation to target American troops? This is simply
politicized (un)intelligence that isn’t fooling anyone. According to CNN, the
Iranian government has paid “bounties” to the Haqqani network, a
terrorist group with close links to the Taliban, for six attacks on US and
coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2019, including one on December 11 which
targeted Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, which wounded four US
personnel. -more-
Finian
Cunningham. “Hubris before the Fall.” Sputnik
News (July 20, 2019). Mronline.org (7-22-19).
Originally published: Sputnik News by Finian Cunningham (July 20, 2019).
The U.S. and Britain are exemplars of this
kind of mad hubris in the present mounting tensions with Iran.
. . .Washington
and London’s accusations that Iran is “escalating” tensions are an absurd
inversion of reality. Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif just this
week requested the U.S. to enter negotiations to resolve the stand-off–if Trump
reciprocated by lifting harsh sanctions off Iran. You can’t get fairer than
that.
Let’s
recall the bigger picture. The dangerous situation has been created by
Washington’s reprehensible tearing up last year of the international nuclear
accord with Iran. Then in April, Trump reimposed crippling sanctions on Tehran
driving the Iranian economy into even further turmoil. Such economic warfare is
illegal under international law. It’s “economic terrorism”, as Iranian-American
writer Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich aptly puts it.
In May,
the Trump administration shifted gear and embarked on a policy of what can only
be called military aggression by sending warships and B-52 nuclear-capable
bombers to the Persian Gulf, purportedly to “defend” against alleged–though
unsubstantiated–Iranian security threats.
For the past two months there have been a series of sabotage incidents
against commercial shipping which the U.S. has blamed on Iran. Iran denies any
involvement and has instead speculated that the incidents are being
orchestrated by malign forces to incriminate Tehran.
The
seizure of the Iranian oil tanker off
Gibraltar earlier this month by British commandoes fits into
the same pattern of deliberate provocation.
So when
Britain’s Jeremy Hunt gets on his high horse of legal probity and
righteousness, the hubris is way too much to stomach.
Washington
and London have said in public that they don’t want a war with Iran. But all
other signs suggest that war is something they are prepared to wage. Maybe they
expect that the display of military power and bragging about it will be enough
to make Iran cower and beg for mercy. That, in short, is state terrorism. . . .
Gregory Shupak.
“For US Media, Iran Is Always Threatening, Not Threatened.” Extra! (July
2019).
Mainstream media articles
that function as an “information-laundering service, turning state talking
points into ‘neutral’ pieces of data—data that just might talk us into another
catastrophic war.” Shupak teaches at the U of
Guelph-Humber in Toronto. His book The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the
Media, is pub. by OR Books.
Michael Arria. “‘The
assassination of Qasem Soleimani was an act of war’.” Mondoweiss
(Jan. 6, 2020). mronline.org
On January 5, Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-MN) and Rep. Barbara Lee announced that they are introducing a War Powers
Resolution in the House. The legislation would remove U.S. forces from any
conflict with Iran that hasn’t been granted congressional approval and is a
companion to a Senate resolution that was introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine […]
“‘The assassination of Qasem Soleimani
was an act of war’: Rep. Omar and Rep. Lee introduce resolution to stop Trump’s
war on Iran. “ 15 Comments.
By Michael
Arria (Posted Jan 09, 2020). Originally published: Mondoweiss on January 6, 2020 (more
by Mondoweiss).
Fascism, Human
Rights, Imperialism, ProtestUnited
StatesNewswire
“Let’s not mince
words: the assassination of Qasem Soleimani was an act of war undertaken
without Congressional authorization, in violation of the Constitution of the
United States of America,” said Omar in a statement,
Following the
assassination, thousands of additional troops were sent to the Middle East in
one of the largest rapid deployments seen in decades. This follows years of
saber-rattling and threats of war against Iran by President Trump and his
accomplices. We in Congress must exercise our Constitutional duty—and do
everything in our power to stop another disastrous war.
Mark
Fancher. “Beware Imperialist Gaslighting: Assassination
Is Not Legal.” Black
Agenda Report (Jan. 8, 2020).
Mronline.org
The
contradictions between imperialist actions and the legal standards they create
can do much to raise mass consciousness and accelerate revolutionary momentum.
But this can happen only if people know what the law is in the first place.
Imperialists have been vigilant in their efforts to obscure and distort legal
standards. […]
Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 8, 2020 by
Mark P. Fancher (more by Black Agenda Report)(Posted Jan 09, 2020). Fascism,
Imperialism,
Strategy,
WarIran,
United StatesNewswire
The U.S. government
has been in the business of killing foreign leaders for a long time–but it’s
still a crime.
Although analysts will
endlessly debate the legality of the recent assassination of Iran’s Qasem
Soleimani by drone strike, the law has no place for crimes of this kind. Of all
people, Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333 that reads in part: “No person
employed by or acting on behalf of the United States government shall engage
in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.” Later moves to make exceptions
for terrorists cannot erase the original intent of the order.
The Geneva Convention,
which provides guidelines for warfare, provides: “…it is prohibited to kill,
injure or capture an adversary by perfidy.” For example, if an enemy
combatant waves a white flag, it is illegal to kill him as he attempts to surrender.
As Iran was not engaged in active hot warfare with the U.S., the killing of
Soleimani was an unpredictable ambush of a man whose guard was down.
More to the point
however is the fact that the killing of a high ranking government official is
for all practical purposes a declaration of war. It was the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914 by Serbian operatives that
triggered World War I. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives the
power to declare war solely to the Congress. In the wake of the Soleimani
killing, many in Congress are in shock because they knew nothing. . . . MORE
Max
Blumenthal. “’Iraqi
PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trump’s
lie of ‘imminent attacks’.” The
Grayzone (Jan. 6, 2019). Mronline.org
The Trump
administration claimed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning “imminent
attacks” on U.S. interests when it assassinated him. That lie was just
destroyed, but not before countless corporate media outlets transmitted it to
the public.
By Max
Blumenthal (Posted Jan 09, 2020)
Originally published: The Grayzone on January 6, 2019 (more
by The Grayzone). Fascism, State
Repression, Strategy, WarIran,
Iraq,
United StatesNewswire
Desperate to justify
the U.S. drone assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that Washington had made an
“intelligence-based assessment” that Soleimani was “actively planning in the
region” to attack American interests before he was killed.
President Donald Trump
justified his fateful decision to kill the Iranian general in even more
explicit language, declaring that Soleimani was planning “imminent attacks” on
U.S. diplomatic facilities and personnel across the Middle East. “We took action last night to stop a war,”
Trump claimed. “We did not take action to start a war.” Trump’s dubious rationale for an indisputably
criminal assassination has been repeated widely across corporate media networks, and often without any skepticism or debate. At a January 3 State Department briefing, where reporters
finally got the chance to demand evidence for the claim of an “imminent”
threat, one U.S. official erupted in anger.
“Jesus, do we have to explain why we do these things?” he barked at the
press.
Two days later, when Iraqi Prime
Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi addressed his country’s parliament, Trump’s
justification for killing Soleimani was exposed as a cynical lie. According to Abdul-Mahdi, he had planned to
meet Soleimani on the morning the general was killed to discuss a diplomatic rapproachment that Iraq was
brokering between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Abdul-Mahdi said that Trump personally thanked him for the efforts, even as he was
planning the hit on Soleimani–thus creating the impression that the Iranian
general was safe to travel to Baghdad. . . .
MORE
Vijay Prashad. “Iran simply won’t let itself be hemmed in by the U.S.
and UK.” Mronline.org (7-31-19).
The United States is leading a process to create a naval force that
would patrol the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. has said it will send “command and
control” ships to coordinate the escort naval vessels from different countries.
But there are cracks in the coalition.
Source By Vijay
Prashad (Posted Jul 30, 2019). Imperialism,
WarIran,
United Kingdom, United
StatesCommentary, NewsFeatured,
Globetrotter,
Independent Media Institute
This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
In late May, the
shipping authorities in Panama deregistered Grace 1, an oil
tanker carrying two million barrels of Iranian crude oil around the coastline
of Africa and into the Mediterranean Sea. Having lost its Panamanian flag, the
ship now had to carry an Iranian one.
It was this deregistration that began a
serious provocation. Off the coast of Gibraltar, British Royal Marines seized
and impounded Grace 1. The British said that the
ship was going toward Syria, a breach of European Union sanctions. Iran denied
this. . . . MORE [The article traces the complicated tit for
tat history. In addition to Prashad’s
opening, I give his closing. –D]
ran’s President Hassan Rouhani said, “The main responsibility for protecting
the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf is mainly with Iran and neighbouring
countries,” mainly Oman. Rouhani said sharply that if other countries try to
create tension, “they will receive a proper response from Iran.”
Rouhani made this
comment as his special envoy to France—Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi—met with France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to insist that
Iran would not allow any disturbance in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Brigadier
General Hossein Dehghan told al-Jazeera, “Any change in the status of the
Strait of Hormuz will open the door to a dangerous confrontation.” Iran is
simply not prepared to back down over asserting its role in the 21 nautical
mile Strait of Hormuz.
About a fifthof the
world’s oil goes through this narrow waterway. Most countries in the world do
not want to see this flashpoint explode into open war—as was openly indicated
at the Non-Aligned Movement gathering of foreign ministers in Caracas, Venezuela.
Iran has tried to be
creative with its shipping. It cannot afford to be hemmed in. On June 3,
according to Reuters, Hayan, an Iranian
ship, left the port of Bandar Abbas for Karachi, Pakistan. Four days later, the
ship’s name changed to Mehri II and it
carried the flag of Samoa. A week later, Mehri II transferred
its cargo to an unknown vessel. It then turned around and returned to Iran
as Hayan.
Vijay Prashad is an Indian
historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief
correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and
the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a
senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin
University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and
(with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of
U.S. Power.
“Trump’s ‘diplomacy’ in Iran is a Cynical
Farce.” Mronline.org
(8-8-19)
The problem for any negotiations is that the U.S. position is
untenable. The U.S. wants to prevent Iran from exercising its right under the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) to enrich uranium even to low levels.
It is this impossible position by Washington that will prevent diplomacy.
By Vijay Prashad (Posted Aug 07, 2019). Democracy, ImperialismIran, United StatesCommentary, NewsFeatured, Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute
This article was produced
by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media
Institute. https://mronline.org/2019/08/07/trumps-diplomacy-in-iran-is-a-cynical-farce/
Word of U.S. President
Donald Trump’s decision to sanction Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif did not
seem to rattle the government in Iran. Zarif’s own reaction—that the U.S. is
“isolating itself”—suggested the tone. Iran would not be intimidated.
Iranian officials
echoed each other, saying that the United States was afraid of Zarif’s
eloquence. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that the “White House is
frightened by his diplomatic capabilities.” Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s
permanent representative to the UN, told the Iranian media that the U.S. has
sanctioned Zarif in order to “suppress his logic and his eloquent and
persuasive language.” Former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said that the
U.S. does not have the ability to counter Zarif’s arguments.
There is merit to this
view. The buzz in Washington suggests that both Trump and his Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo were unhappy with Zarif’s interactions with the U.S. media.
Zarif, who studied in the United States, is comfortable with television and is
able to make a rational case against the U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the
2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA).
Zarif is indeed urbane
and eloquent, but that is not his only advantage. He has the facts on his side.
. . . MORE
https://mronline.org/2019/08/07/trumps-diplomacy-in-iran-is-a-cynical-farce/
“Dossier 19: Iranians Will
Not Forget. The Hybrid War Against Iran. An Interview with Seyed Mohammad
Marandi, University of Tehran.” By Vijay
Prashad. Mronline.org (8-8-19).
It
is impossible to predict what will happen in West Asia. Impossible to know
whether the United States will conduct a military strike against Iran, which
has already faced the full brunt of a US-driven hybrid war against it for the
past seven decades. The current flashpoint is over the Joint Comprehensive Plan
of Action (JCPOA), negotiated between and signed in 2015 by Iran, the five
permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United
Kingdom and the United States), Germany, and the European Union. The JCPOA
attempted to deal with tensions ramped up by the United States and its allies
(mainly Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel) against Iran’s nuclear policy. Iran,
in good faith, agreed to the protocols established by the JCPOA even though it
has always said that it does not have a nuclear weapons policy. What has irked
the United States and its regional allies has been Iran’s regional role. . .
. To break through the information
barrier, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research interviewed
Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran, where he teaches
English Literature and Orientalism and is the Dean of the Faculty of World
Studies. This conversation focuses on the unilateral US sanctions policy
against Iran, on Iran’s resilience, and on Iranian relations with China and
Russia. . . . MORE https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/190730_Dossier-19_EN-Web.pdf
Tricontinental:
Institute for Social Research is an international, movement-driven institution
focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations. www.thetricontinental.org
Suvrat
Raju. “Imperial
overreach in Iran.” June 27, 2019 . mronline.org (7-1-19)
In the last week of June 2019, as this
article was being written, tensions between the U.S. and Iranian governments
escalated sharply. On June 20, 2019, in response to aggressive U.S. actions,
including the mobilization of troops, naval forces, and aerial provocations,
Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone flying near the Iranian border.
By Suvrat
Raju (Posted Jul 01, 2019). Originally published: Research Unit of
Political Economy on June 27, 2019 (more
by Research Unit of Political Economy)
Imperialism, Movements,
State Repression, StrategyIranCommentary,
NewsFeatured
In
the last week of June 2019, as this article was being written, tensions between
the U.S. and Iranian governments escalated sharply. On June 20, 2019, in
response to aggressive U.S. actions, including the mobilization of troops,
naval forces, and aerial provocations, Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone
flying near the Iranian border.(1) The U.S.
government used this as an excuse to threaten to bomb Iran.(2) The United States
might implement this threat in the near future, setting off a wider conflict.
The
origins of these tensions are often traced to the U.S. dispute with Iran on its
nuclear programme. However, both the Iranian nuclear issue and the current
war-tensions should be more properly viewed within the context of a
four-decade-long effort by the United States to undermine the Iranian
government and assert U.S. hegemony over West Asia. . . . MORE
Vijay Prashad. “Why the world is watching the
fate of an Iranian tanker in the Mediterranean.” mronline.org
(8-20-19).
The British, it is
clear, seized the Iranian tanker at the urging of the United States. There was
no previous British warning that it might enter in such a muscular way into the
U.S. attempt to suffocate Iran.
By Vijay
Prashad (Posted Aug 19, 2019). Imperialism,
WarIran,
United KingdomCommentary,
NewsFeatured,
Globetrotter,
Independent Media Institute
This article was produced by Globetrotter, a
project of the Independent Media Institute.
At
11:30 p.m. on August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 left
the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had
been detained 46 days ago by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar’s officials.
The British claimed that the ship—then named Grace 1—was taking
its cargo of 2.1 million barrels of oil to Syria. There are European Union
sanctions against trade with the Syrian government. It is based on these
sanctions that the British seized the Iranian vessel.
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“WAR AGAINST IRAN
BECOMING EVER MORE LIKELY.”
JANUARY 25,
2019, JIM LOBE , HTTPS://LOBELOG.COM/WAR-AGAINST-IRAN-BECOMING-EVER-MORE-LIKELY/ With
Ben Armbruster.
[see long article at the link]
Provocateurs Aplenty
With Trump in political trouble at home,
Mattis out, and Bolton centralizing power in an increasingly hawkish NSC,
certain foreign powers with a well-established interest in military conflict
between the United States and Iran-–notably Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and
Bahrain—may see an unprecedented but transitory window for provocation. Indeed,
like Trump, both Netanyahu and MbS are facing
difficulties of their own and may be eager to create new distractions that
could rally domestic opinion behind them.
Bolton and Pompeo’s aggressiveness may also be designed to
provoke Iran itself to renounce the nuclear deal or at least to begin testing
its limits. Indeed, Iran’s adherence to the 2015 nuclear deal, as noted most
recently in a comprehensive memo by the International Crisis
Group, is increasingly under threat due to the growing stress felt in Tehran by
the U.S.-imposed sanctions regime, the failure to date of the European Union to
implement its plan for a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to enable Iran to reap
at least some of the deal’s economic rewards, and the unrelenting hawkish
rhetoric emanating from the Trump administration. That assessment leaves space
for the administration to provoke a crisis, pushing Iran to ultimately withdraw
from the nuclear deal and thus providing a pretext for military action.
But it’s not just Bolton. Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo is a long-time Iran hawk who, prior to joining the
administration, campaigned heavily in the House against the JCPOA in favor
of hundreds of air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Pompeo has taken point on the Trump administration’s public campaign to demonize
Iran and lay the groundwork for war. As CIA director, Pompeo orchestrated a
leak of documents intended to (baselessly) link Iran to al-Qaeda. At the
State Department, he has delivered the most hardline anti-Iran speeches.
In one last May, he insisted that Iran must accede to 12
demands, including halting all uranium enrichment and withdrawing “all forces
under [its] command” in Syria before U.S. sanctions can be eased. He has
repeated this ultimatum even though most Iran experts characterize
it as totally unrealistic. During his widely panned Middle East
tour earlier this month, in which he promised to “expel every last Iranian
boot” from Syria, Pompeo announced that he will cohost with Poland an Iran-bashing
summit next month that top EU officials say they
intend to boycott.
Indeed, Israel has exhibited a new boldness
in bombing suspected Iranian weapons sites in Syria. “Analysts have warned that
Israel’s new openness [in publicly claiming responsibility for the strikes]
could ratchet up tensions, making it harder for Iranian leaders to ignore
attacks and pushing them to retaliate,” The New York Times reported
this week. Netanyahu himself this week even mocked the head of
the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, in the aftermath of the latest Israeli
attack, implicitly daring him to retaliate. . . .
The potential of some kind of conflict with
Iran escalating into a larger regional war is very real, possibly more real
than ever. Although some have been sounding the
alarm, the attention given to this dire situation is nowhere near the level it
deserves. Given the national media’s ever-shifting focus on whatever shiny
chaotic moment emerges from Trump and his administration, it’s possible that
the United States could find itself in a new Middle East war without anyone
really noticing it happen.
Ben Armbruster is the communications director
for Win Without War and previously served as national security editor at
ThinkProgress.
“Pro-Peace Coalition
Delivers Petition Urging Congress to Block Trump's Path to War With Iran.” 2019.
WASHINGTON - Today, NIAC Action,
Win Without War, MoveOn, J Street, Daily Kos, and CODEPINK delivered 249,000
petition signatures to the House Armed Services Committee members ahead of
tomorrow's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) markup. The organizations
called for the addition of an amendment to the NDAA that would prevent funding
for a war with Iran without Congressional approval. …(continued at link
above).
“Sanders Launches
Petition Urging Lawmakers to Block Military Action Against Iran Without
Congressional Approval.” 2019
CONTENTS IRAN
ANTHOLOGY #32
[History of US/Iranian
Friendship]
[US GLOBAL IMPERIAL AGGRESSION V. IRAN: HISTORY.
See Anthologies 1-31]
[1953 CIA-organized coup
d’état overthrew democratically
elected Prime Minister Mossadegh]
[1979 Iranian Revolution and US Embassy Hostages]
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 2017-2021
US PREPARING FOR WAR V. IRAN AGAIN
2018
“The Coming American
Assault on Iran 2018.”
2019
Bolton’s plans for war
WIN WITHOUT WAR Protests
2022
Google
Search:
U.S. Leaves Iran Deal, Violates World
Order and Risks War.
US Media: How to Start a War
Peace Action 2019
JOE BIDEN INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT JANUARY 20, 2021
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES THE AGGRESSION
US PREPARING FOR WAR v. IRAN AGAIN 2022
Chris Hedges. “War with Iran.” The United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia
are plotting a war with Iran.
Ted Snider. “Why Is Biden Joining The
Warpath Against Iran?”
Mitchell Plitnick. “Biden’s Words
Make War with Iran More Likely.”
PEACE MOVEMENT v WAR WITH IRAN: FROM JIMMY CARTER TO CODE PINK
Brett Wilkins. “Jimmy Carter.
US 'Most Warlike Nation in History of the World'.” 2019.
Code Pink, 2018 to Present
END IRAN ANTHOLOGY
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