by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 24, 2026 How will Iran survive the latest round of what President Donald Trump calls “draconian sanctions” that promise to be the most extreme strangulation ever imposed? Iran has developed highly sophisticated, high tech, asymmetric, low-cost, well hidden weapons to defend their …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, July 15, 2025 According to data released by the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) on 14 July, more than 200 non-Iranian vessels applied for passage permits and insurance coverage during the three weeks between the signing of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding (MoU) …
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Jeremy Scahill and Jawad Ahmad, published on Black Agenda Report, June 24, 2026 Originally published in Drop Site News. Gaza proposals obtained by Drop Site show Trump’s board attempting to force a Palestinian surrender that Israel could not achieve in war. Soon after President Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory tour for “ending” …
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Will the War in Iran Resume? ….Yes, but with the U.S. on the sideline…. by Paul Larudee, published on Substack, June 21, 2026 Donald Trump has accepted the fact that the US cannot win a war with Iran. In fact, he will probably agree that it was a mistake, though …
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by Paul Larudee, published on Substack, March 7, 2026 Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s greatness was in his wisdom and his morality. He was right in condemning nuclear and chemical weapons, but I believe he failed to acknowledge the side of human nature that requires fear of consequences to limit the …
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News from Al Manar, March 2, 2026 Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, firmly rejected any negotiations with Washington on Monday, contradicting claims made by US President Donald Trump. “We will not negotiate with the US,” Larijani wrote on X, directly disputing Trump’s remarks in an interview …
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by Alastair Crooke, published on the Conflicts Forum, February 28m 2026 Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) — for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators — confirmed the essential impasse. The US demands presented to Iran were: The complete dismantling of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites. The …
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by Abutalib Albohaya, published on The Cradle, February 17, 2026 In Baghdad, where politicians sleep with one eye open to a geography of anxiety, Iraqis awoke to a scene that revived memories of the strongman era and its unforgiving rules of engagement. Behind Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s abrupt withdrawal …
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by Alistair Crooke, published on Conflicts Forum Substack, October 9, 2025 Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it easy!’. It’s …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, June 2, 2025 After 2011, tens of thousands of foreign extremists flooded into Syria with the backing of western intelligence agencies to help topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad The US has agreed to a plan by Syria’s transitional government to incorporate …
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