Ambassador Lana Marks is known for selling overpriced handbags and for her donations to Trump’s campaign. To Iran she has zero political or symbolic value. There is no way Iran...
U.S. President Donald Trump just announced that the United Arab Emirates and Israel “agreed to full normalization” of their relations and that they will “establish reciprocal embassies”. In exchange Israel...
Someone is amplifying a number of rather normal accidents that occur in any large industrialized country in an attempt to sow fear and uncertainty in Iran. There is a rather...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pushing at the United Nations to prolong the arms embargo against Iran. Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which solved the issue...
That the U.S. will now claim to be still a participant state in the JCPOA will be seen as a joke by everyone who considers previous remarks the Trump administration...
The Trump administration has used the novel coronavirus pandemic to malign its perceived enemies. Now as the U.S. itself is at the center of the pandemic the accusations and lies...
Yesterday the U.S. attacked five sites in Iraq and killed 3 Iraqi soldiers of the 19th Division, two policeman and a civilian. The strikes came after some 10+ rockets, fired...
Russia has called Turkey’s bluff of a wide ranging attack on Syrian government forces. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will now have to find a way out of the Idleb trap...
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to destroy the nuclear agreement with Iran. He has threatened the EU-3 poodles in Germany, Britain and France with a 25%...
Despite claiming to support the nuclear deal the EU-3 always searched for ways to put more restrictions on Iran, especially on its ballistic missile program. In May...
After the shoot down of the Ukrainian flight PS752 the big question within Iran and within its military and political circles is what went wrong. An analysis of the circumstances...
The Iranian military revenge was less intensive then I had expected. But it was also a clear sign that Iran is capable and willing to openly attack U.S. bases in...
During his election campaign Trump did not even know (vid) who Soleimani was. Someone indoctrinated him. The idea to assassinate Soleimani came most likely from Netanyahoo and must have been planted into...
The Trump administration is telling fairytales about its murder of Major General Qassem Soleimani. He was not planing any “imminent attacks” on the U.S. or its interests in Iraq. Reports which claim...
U.S. President Donald Trump will go into his reelection campaign with U.S. troops under threat everywhere. We can expect incidents like the Beirut barracks bombing to repeat themselves when he...
The Trump administration did not apologize for its attack on the Iraqi troops. Instead it appealed to Iraqi sovereignty, which it had broken when it attacked the PMF, when it...
There are some 5,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq in bases which also house 10,000nds of Iraqi soldiers and PMF troops. Revenge attacks are now inevitable.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we present you the Middle East columnist of the 'paper of the record', Tom Friedman: Iran Is Crushing Freedom One Country at...
The Attorney General of Israel just indicted Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahoo in three cases. The announcement comes at a time of political stalemate. It might...
What's up with Jared Kushner's great Middle East peace plan? It seems to be as much alive as that famous parrot. The other big Middle East...
The best strategy for the legitimate protesters is to press the current governments for reform. The governments in Iraq and in Lebanon have both already agreed to make certain changes....
The U.S. media get yesterday's talks between U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan all wrong. Those talks were just a show...
Another defeat in the war with Houthi’s, and King’s bodyguard killed.
If the Saudis really want to defend their country they will have to buy the Russian stuff. But the U.S. is unlikely to allow that.
A few days or weeks from now we will see other attacks on oil assets on the western side of the Persian Gulf. Iran, with the help of its friends,...
The Saudis need to move fast to end the war. Unless that happens soon we can expect further escalations and more attacks like the ones earlier today.
Today Saudi Arabia finally lost the war on Yemen. It has no defenses against new weapons the Houthis have acquired. This today was the decisive attack:
After a somewhat quiet weekend the Trump administration today engaged in another push against Iran. Today the Treasury Department sanctioned the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard...
The U.S.Department of State is offering a grant of $75,000,000 to non-government-organizations to help it to further meddle in Syria. The grant SFOP0005916 - Supporting Local...
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