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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Ankit Kumar |Akbar E. Torbat |Vijay Prashad
One couldn’t help but feel a tinge of pleasure in Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian lashing out at Donald Trump. Without mincing his words, and certainly not sticking to diplomatic niceties, no doubt taking his cue from the new boss at the White House, Pezeshkian told the US president a few home truths. Depending on the translation into English from Persian, he basically told the US president to “go to hell”.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ankit Kumar |Akbar E. Torbat |Vijay Prashad |Kumar Singh
by Hemshikha Mishra and Ankit KumarIntroductionIs the conflict in Middle East likely to expand? Iran’s quest for a security assurance seems to suggest so. Since his surprising election as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran in July 2024, Masoud Pezeshkian has visited the important partners of Tehran – Iraq, Tajikistan and Russia – to restrengthen ties with them.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Akbar E. Torbat |Vijay Prashad |Kumar Singh |Phil Pasquini
Until May last year, the fundamentalists in Iran had total control over the presidency, and the country had a strong standing against Israel through its allies in the region. However, the situation unexpectedly changed after the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other companions crashed on May 19, 2024. Despite the government’s latest announcement that the crash was due to bad weather conditions, speculation on sabotage is still ongoing.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bob Dreyfuss |Gideon Polya |Akbar E. Torbat |Chris Hedges
If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: I mean, really, who are these people who say that they’re undecided? Who doesn’t know enough to know which way they’re going to vote?
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mazin Qumsiyeh |Bharat Dogra |Marwan Asmar |Akbar E. Torbat
Dear friends and colleaguesThe situation in North Gaza is beyond the word catastrophic: horror, massacres, extermination. People are shot on site as they even try to evacuate injured people, medical personnel are targeted, hospitals are targeted. No food or water allowed. Israel simply rejected UN and humanitarian organization access. People are dying by injuries and by thirst. It would be more merciful to drop a nuclear bomb on them.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Marwan Asmar |Akbar E. Torbat |Alex Lantier
In recent months several consensual aspects of humanitarian aid have been violated in ways that are perhaps unprecedented. This has happened particularly in Gaza and Lebanon as Israeli forces have repeatedly not hesitated to attack those engaged in the noble task of delivering most urgently needed food, medicines and other essential needs, including even the UN peace forces and relief agencies as well as other highly reputed agencies like Doctors without Borders and Red Cross.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Akbar E. Torbat |Alex Lantier |Brian Victoria
Finally, and after nearly three weeks of trying Israeli tanks, Monday, managed to enter Ayta Al Shaab, the little town, one kilometer away across the border into southern Lebanon. Ever since 1 October, 2024, Israeli ground troops have been trying to enter from the south and south-west of the country but to no avail.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Akbar E. Torbat |Alex Lantier |Brian Victoria |Hiren Gohain
On October 8, 2023, Israel invaded Gaza Strip in retaliation to Palestinian Hamas’s attack on occupied lands the day before. Israelis have since brutally massacred Palestinians and, more recently, the Lebanese, forcing them out of their homelands, which most Western leaders have supported. This is not only apartheid ethnic cleansing, but it is also stealing the lands of Palestinians. As of this writing, about 42,500 Palestinians have been killed and about 100,000 critically injured.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Akbar E. Torbat |Pranjal Pandey |Phil Pasquini |Bob Dreyfuss
On May 19, 2024, Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, at the Giz Galasi Dam along the two countries’ borders to inaugurate the hydroelectric complex there. In his return en route to Tabriz, the helicopter carrying Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other companions crashed.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Binoy Kampmark |Latheef Farook |Akbar E. Torbat
“79-year-old Ibrahim Abu Al-Atta said he lost his soul when the mosque was destroyed as he was present in ts construction stage 15 years ago.”When the young men echoed the call to prayer via a small loudspeaker in Gaza after many months of silence due to the Israeli occupation destroying most of the mosques, Palestinians couldn’t not hide their joy. 🔻"In Gaza, mosques where the name of Allah is frequently mentioned have been destroyed.
