Tag: Middle East
Pakistan PM drops a ‘truth bomb’ on US about the Iranian...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, one of the signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US,...
The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...
Israel's legitimacy has been catastrophically squandered. It can only begin to be rebuilt through justice for the Palestinian people, writes Lim Tean.
ANALYSIS: By Lim...
This is the story that Trump and the West don’t want...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
Across my social media platforms, I encounter daily a particular brand of ignorance that I find increasingly impossible to ignore. Iran...
The new Middle East: How the Old Order died and what...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
An Israeli cabinet minister has named the new Middle East on live radio -- and he named it in alarm.
What Diaspora...
Trump’s war on Iran ends with a ‘triumphant’ Tehran and a...
Democracy Now!
NERMEEN SHAIKH: The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The signing...
They’re saying the attack on Iran was ‘proportional’ – here are...
COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi
The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people.
“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...
Paying the price for US-Israeli wars – and NZ’s shameful stance...
COMMENTARY: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Today the US and/or Israel have been attacking Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Venezuela.
The US is also strangling Cuba with...
Rabuka rules out military involvement with Israel in Mideast conflicts
By Jake Wise in Suva
Fiji will not be "militarily involved" in any of the conflicts currently involving the State of Israel, says the country's...
Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges
The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing...
Why the Middle East needs a strong Iran-Turkey alliance to foil...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
In my view, the greatest source of instability in the Middle East today is the increasingly aggressive and expansionary posture of...
Double standards? Why Israel’s nukes get a ‘pass’ while Iran is...
ANALYSIS: By Usaid Siddiqui
For more than two decades, Iran’s nuclear programme has been subject to intense international scrutiny, sanctions and diplomatic negotiations.
By contrast, while...
Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Why is US President Donald Trump carrying on with his State visit to Beijing this week on May 14? I wouldn't...
Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious
To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank cheque to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest...
Deafening silence about the Israeli Dimona nuclear double standard
ANALYSIS: By Ronny P. Sasmita
The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint US-Israeli bombing operations.
Yet the world, filtered...
‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett
Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran...
Iran’s ‘Samson option’ : Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic...
ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian
When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only...
Western media failing to tell truth about war on Iran, says...
Pacific Media Watch
Western legacy media is failing to tell the truth on the US-Israeli war on Iran, says a leading US academic and analyst.
"Mass...
War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not...
COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter
The US-Israeli attack on Iran has unequivocally demonstrated to the world -- apart, it seems, from Australia's government -- that being...
Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state.
We are now in the...
Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
I came across this statement from an independent media source this week:
“The mainstream media is doing what it always does in...
Thousands of protesters in London demand end to US, Israeli war...
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators yesterday marched through central London, calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli military operations against Iran and an...
War in Iran – journalism in crisis as reporters work amid...
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists in Iran have been working amid hostile air strikes for almost a week since the start of the US-Israeli offensive while...


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