China, we are told by US government officials and the parroting establishment media, has been aggressively attempting to expand its territory by taking over islands in the South China Sea. China, we are told, is a threat to peace. It’s true, veteran journalist John...
The official website of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, khamenei.ir, recently interviewed me to discuss US policy toward Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia and the Qatar crisis. The editors, however, chose to censor a portion of my interview that was...
A journalist from Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) contacted me for a few comments about the Iran nuclear agreement–known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). His first question was whether this was a bad deal for...
Following Benjamin Netanyahu’s melodramatic speech to the US Congress, the New York Times, in an article about the supposed “Chasm” between the Israeli Prime Minister and President Barack Obama on the issue of Iran, explains that Obama would...
The caption of a Google Earth image accompanying a recent New York Times article by David Sanger and William Broad describes it as: A view of the mountain where Iran built a hidden centrifuge facility called Fordo. The U.S. revealed its existence in 2009....
There was a great deal of buzz about the initial agreement between the U.S. and its Western allies and Iran, with the media calling it “historic”, “a breakthrough” and a “game-changer”. The media is also characterizing the Obama...
A Reuters headline reads “Iran says to continue building at Arak nuclear site despite deal”, thus implying that its ongoing construction would be in violation of its recent agreement with the U.S. and its Western allies. The lead paragraph...
There are a couple points worth noting about recent reporting on the recent talks between the U.S. and its Western allies and Iran over its nuclear program. 1) The first is that the media effectively accepts the U.S. government’s framework that Iran’s...
On November 7, Michael R. Gordon reported in the lede of a New York Times article titled “West and Iran Seen as Nearing a Nuclear Deal”: After years of fruitless negotiations, Western and Iranian diplomats are on the verge of an agreement that would...
Last week, the Associated Press published an interview with Obama. Its headline declared: OBAMA: IRAN ‘YEAR OR MORE’ FROM GETTING BOMB The article opened: President Barack Obama says U.S. intelligence agencies believe Iran is still “a year or...
Vali Nasr, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, argues in a New York Times op-ed titled “America Mustn’t Be Naive About Iran” that, even though “Iran’s economy is indeed in dire straights” due to...
The editors at the New York Times opine under the headline “Next Steps With Iran” that the U.S. “should reach out to” President-elect Hassan Rowhani and “put together a broader nuclear proposal” that “should include a process for acknowledging Iran’s right to pursue...
Bob Schieffer on CBS Face the Nation interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, opening by asserting as fact that there is a “continued push for nuclear weapons in Iran”, even though there is no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program....
Under the headline “In Iran Race, All 8 Candidates Toe Hard Line on Nuclear Might”, the New York Times comments, with regard to the presidential contest, that when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program they are all saying the same thing: there will be no backing down, no...
FPJ — In the February issue of Foreign Policy, Jacques E. C. Hymans urges that it is time for the U.S. and Israel to stop overreacting about Iran’s nuclear program, which might otherwise be a welcome departure from the usual fearmongering, but for the fact...
My friend Nima Shirazi tweeted: PJMedia’s @rogerlsimon is apparently unaware of the past 20 years of Israeli threats to bomb Iran. This is bizarre: pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/02…— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 21, 2013 So I checked it out. Indeed, it is...
Reuters reports that, According to an IAEA report released in mid-November, Iran has a stockpile of 134.9 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium, bringing it closer to the ability to produce the 90 percent uranium needed to provide fissile material for atomic bombs. This...
ICYMI: @JeremyRHammond's obliteration of Robert Jervis' awful Foreign Affairs article is genius. http://t.co/74hBlWTM via @ForPolJournal — Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) February 12, 2013 FPJ — The January/February issue of Foreign...
A recent editorial in the Washington Post suggests that the Obama administration should threaten Iran with war if it doesn’t accept U.S. ultimatums. It begins: AS THE YEAR begins, the Obama administration and its diplomatic partners are expecting...
Morsi’s Wrong Turn By Thomas L. Friedman (Translation by Jeremy R. Hammond) I find it very disturbing that one of the first trips by Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, will be to attend the Nonaligned Movement’s summit meeting in Tehran this week. Excuse...