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1 month 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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2 months ago |
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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2 months ago |
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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