Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a former political prisoner from Iran, explains that Western decision-makers miscalculate when they bet on Iran’s cultural relationship with rebellion.
Hedges Report: Ignoring Iran’s Revolutionary Zeal
Tag: Strait of Hormuz
WATCH: Inside Iran
Dimitri Lascaris spent 11 days in Iran last month and was the first Westerner to show there was no military base near the school the U.S. struck, killing 168 schoolchildren. Here are four of his films from Iran.
DAYS 41-44: Trump Overruled on Hormuz Blockade
UPDATE: Trump’s plan for a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has been dropped as the U.S. will instead only block ships departing Iranian ports, writes Joe Lauria.
The Iranian Billionaire Negotiating With Trump
M.K. Bhadrakumar won’t be surprised if things go well between Trump and Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the billionaire speaker of Iran’s Majlis, who heads negotiations beginning in Islamabad Saturday.
Jeffrey Sachs: Ending Israel’s War on Peace
To make peace last in the Middle East, the U.S. must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967.
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel or Peace
Israel is a genocidal apartheid state whose entire existence is premised upon a strategy of unceasing violence and abuse in the middle east. As long as that state continues to exist in its present iteration, peace will never be attainable.
Craig Murray: The Strait of Hormuz & the Law
Tehran has every right under international law to close the Strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict.
Hedges Report: On the Brink of Apocalyptic
Before the ceasefire, as Trump escalated threats and oil chokepoints tightened, Trita Parsi warned that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was entering its most dangerous phase yet.
Dennis Kucinich: How to Stop the War
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end.
DAYS 30-32: WAR ON IRAN — An Insulting War of Insults
UPDATED: Iran is making Trump go mad. How will world leaders and his people deal with him? This is the most urgent question. Only a worldwide depression and possible nuclear war are on the line, writes Joe Lauria.