Iran
Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 3: Globalization, Iran, and the dollar crisis
By Alex Lantier, December 3, 2007
This is the final article in a three-part series. Part one was posted on November 30. Part two was posted on December 1.
Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 2: Eurasian geopolitics and US threats against Iran
By Alex Lantier, December 1, 2007
This is the second article in a three-part series. Part one was posted November 30. Part three will be posted December 3.
Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 1: Iran’s strategic position
By Alex Lantier, November 30, 2007
This is the first of a three-part series. Part two will be posted December 1. Part three will be posted on December 3.
US dismisses IAEA report of “progress” over Iran’s nuclear programs
By Peter Symonds, November 17, 2007
The Bush administration has rapidly rejected the findings of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report finalised on Thursday, which found that Iran had made “substantial progress&rdquo...
US prepares for tougher action against Iran
By Peter Symonds, November 12, 2007
With the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to report on Iran’s nuclear programs this week, the US administration has been intensifying its campaign for stronger action against Tehran...
US intensifies push for further UN sanctions on Iran
By Peter Symonds, November 2, 2007
The Bush administration is pressing for tough new UN Security Council sanctions at a meeting in London today of the five permanent members—the US, Britain, France, Russia and China—plus Ge...
Report: Strategic air base being readied for war on Iran
By Bill Van Auken, October 31, 2007
The key base used by the US military for air strikes in the Middle East is being made ready for a war against Iran, a Scottish newspaper reported Monday.
More warnings of a US war on Iran
By Peter Symonds, October 29, 2007
The Bush administration’s unprecedented decision last week to brand the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a weapons proliferator and its Quds Force as a “supporter of terrorism&r...
US imposes unilateral sanctions on Iran: One step closer to war
By Bill Van Auken, October 26, 2007
In an act unprecedented in the history of international relations, Washington on Thursday unilaterally imposed harsh and potentially crippling economic sanctions against Iran’s main uniformed se...
Putin in Tehran: US-Russia rift widens
By Peter Symonds, October 18, 2007
The visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Tehran this week has underscored the deepening gulf between Moscow and Washington on a range of issues, in particular the Bush administration’s t...
US general fires a new propaganda salvo against Iran
By Peter Symonds, October 9, 2007
The top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has raised the propaganda war against Iran another notch levelling new allegations that the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IR...
New Yorker article points to advanced US preparations for war on Iran
By Peter Symonds, October 3, 2007
A lengthy article by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker on Sunday provides further confirmation of the Bush administration’s well-developed military and political prepa...
