On May 13 a leak to the New York Times launched an 'troops to Iran' scare: The US military is exploring a plan to deploy 120,000 troops...
And how the U.S. could stop weapon sales if it wanted to.
The erratic US president has gone from wishing for peace with Iran to, a few days later, making a veiled threat of nuclear annihilation against...
My friend Andrew Rubin is an amputee. He’s lost his right hand, lower arm, right foot, and lower leg. He used to be an avid...
Despite Reza Pahlavi's efforts to be recognized as “a national figure,” he has yet to demonstrate any of the skills needed to marshal an opposition, much less lead a country.
Once upon a time, the United States launched a war on Iraq with the help of false allegations of WMD. The corporate media—and most memorably the US...
He knows that the chances of conflict avoidance are slim and that he has no chance whatsoever of keeping Israel off the list of Iran's top targets.
Recently, President Donald Trump gave Iran’s leaders a telephone number, saying that he is waiting to talk to them. Observers and analysts in both in...
Is Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ doctrine approaching the end of its natural life? Trump does not seem to think so: “Call me” (when the pain becomes...
The recent escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States has led to the now all too predictable wave of commentary and analysis from...
“America is a thing you can move very easily,” Netanyahu once boasted to settlers. Obama and Trump have both illustrated the point.
The Washington Post editorial’s headline (5/14/19) had the US “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency...
When US president Donald Trump says he doesn’t want war with Iran, he expresses a position similar to that of Iranian Leader of the Revolution Sayyed...
Blunt, ignorant and confused are some of the criticisms voiced by allies on U.S. policy toward Iran.
Russia and China decided not to permit the US to topple Iranian regime. Both countries agreed that their long-term interests demanded the preserving of a friendly loyal Iran.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said at a news conference on Saturday that China opposes US unilateral sanctions on Iran and appreciates Iran’s continued commitment to the...
"In my view, what we should be doing is telling Saudi Arabia — which is a despotic, murderous regime — that they have got to start sitting down and negotiating with Iran to create peace"
he American economy is already absorbing a body blow from the deepening US-China trade war. A real war could be more than the decade-long economic expansion can handle.
Acrimony amongst major powers casts a long shadow over the near east. Saudi Arabia claimed that armed drones struck two of its oil pumping stations...
There are two stories gripping the world’s attention, the fictional finale of Game of Thrones, and the very real storm gathering around Iran, but are...
The sad reality is that many in the media are, wittingly or unwittingly, are complicit in this administration’s cynical and dangerous attempt to draw Iran into an armed conflict.
Speaking on state TV of the prospect of a war in the Gulf, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei seemed to dismiss the idea. "There won’t...
Persepolis won Iran Professional League (IPL) for the third straight season after clinching a 1-0 win over Pars Jonoubi on Thursday night. Persepolis FC fans...
The current crisis atmosphere in U.S.-Iranian relations, in which the risk of open warfare appears greater than it has been in years, is solely and...
The veneer of calm that has lain over the waters of the Persian Gulf since the days of the Iran-Iraq war and the first Gulf War was...
Journalist Whitney Webb recently tweeted a 2010 video clip I’d never seen before featuring US National Security Advisor John Bolton defending the use of deception in advancing...
1. Iraq is 168,754 mi² and Iran is 636,400 mi²; that is, Iran is geographically 3.77 times bigger than Iraq, almost 4 times as big....
The scaremongering about an attack on Iran continues. Bolton must be laughing his ass off how easy he can play the issue based on nothing....
The sudden visit to New Delhi by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif for a meeting on May 14 with the outgoing External Affairs...
Amid worrying signs of the United States escalating its “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid an impromptu visit to Brussels on...
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Iran Vows No Surrender – Even If Bombed By ‘Enemies’
The Iranian Daily
