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Who Has Nukes in the Middle East
If there’s one relatively long YouTube video you watch this month, let it be this one. It puts much into perspective.
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The Nuclear Breakthrough and Iranian Jews rally in support of nation’s nuclear program
Netanyahu and the Arab dictatorships have much in common these days. Both care little for what’s actually in America’s interest and both have lobbied long and hard to get the US to attack Iran. The recent nuclear deal, which is … Continue reading
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Netanyahu talks of Iran instead of Palestine
Israeli prime minister and the US secretary of state recently met in Italy to talk about prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, the Israeli prime minister focused the discussion on the “Iranian threat” of nuclear proliferation. I suppose … Continue reading
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Israel general says Iran is “very rational” and atomic bomb unlikely
This is a very important update. The ultra right in both the US and Israel have long argued that Iran is a suicidal irrational state and that it does not abide by a basic cost-benefit rubric, thus, “allowing” it have … Continue reading
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iPouya: “Depicting Iran: How Western Portrayals Justify Intervention”
Here is my most recent article. It has appeared on PBS’s Tehran Bureau, University of Michigan’s The Michigan Daily, and UC Berkeley’s The Daily Californian: As the ideological groundwork for military strikes on Iran is laid by hawks and certain … Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Israel ruled out military option on Iran years ago
What a bombshell! This should deflate Israeli threats to bomb Iran – Ha’aretz: Senior defense officials ruled out an Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear sites as early as five and a half years ago, telegrams sent from the U.S. … Continue reading
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The Latest WikiLeaks Leak: “US urged to tackle Iranâ€
al-Jazeera: Among the documents in the cache of quarter-million files are striking passages detailing US observations from meetings with foreign leaders regarding Iran. A series of diplomatic cables sent from US diplomats in the Middle East to the US state … Continue reading
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Brazil slams US approach towards Iran
See the al Jazeera video here.
Gary Sick on the Latest Nuclear Agreement
Gary Sick: What to make of the new nuclear agreement by Turkey and Brazil with Iran? Perhaps the main point is to be reminded of the moral from the old folk tale: Be careful of what you wish for, since … Continue reading
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Roger Cohen: Realpolitik for Iran
[Another outstanding piece by Roger Cohen] NY Times: For Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, “a combination of ignorance and arrogance†under the Bush administration squandered countless diplomatic opportunities with Iran and so allowed it to … Continue reading
Netanyahu and threat of bombing Iran – the bluff that never stops giving?
Huffington Post: Israel does not have the military capability to successfully eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Even the most successful bombing campaign would only set back the known program for a few years – without affecting any potential clandestine program. This … Continue reading
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Petraeus: Israel Might Attack Iran
The Huffington Post: Army General David Petraeus told Congress that “the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it.” In … Continue reading
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