Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander warned yesterday that “nothing will remain” of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its nuclear programme. General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iran’s response to any attack will…
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To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a U.S. election is a race Israel should try to win. As someone who spent many of his young years in the United States, both as a student…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls “for the US to establish a firm “red line” that Iran’s nuclear program can’t cross without risking a military response,” and the West is marched ever closer to…
A Liberal Democrat Defence Minister has claimed he was sacked to avoid a damaging Coalition split over a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Former Armed Forces Minister Sir Nick Harvey told friends that he was fired…
An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war. Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the world’s petroleum traded by sea. A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said the United States had forfeited its moral right to stop Israel taking action against Iran’s nuclear program because it had refused to be firm with Tehran itself….
Last week’s announcement that Ali Gharib was going to work at the Daily Beast means that four writers have now left Democratic-Party-linked thinktanks in the months since neoconservatives launched a smear campaign against these writers…
German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere has warned Israel against a strike on Iran, describing military action as an ‘unwise’ move. Speaking at the Israel-Europe Dialogue conference in Berlin on Tuesday, De Maiziere warned Israel…
Five years ago I wrote an article on mass paranoia. At the time I argued that U.S. and Israeli paranoia threaten to lead the entire world to oblivion. In that previous article, I defined paranoia…
The Interior Minister of Egypt, Ahmad Ed-Deen, stated in the government-run newspaper Al-Akhbar, that it has identified seven persons who are under suspicion for having carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian military post…