Tag Archives: Iran
Binyamin Netanyahu’s World War
The West’s trumped-up hatred of Iran
Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent
Who is the vassal: the US or Israel?
Uri Avnery examines whether the US or Israel is pushing the other to war with Iran by scuppering the Iran nuclear deal and attacking Iranian forces in Syria, amid Israeli public indifference and infatuation with Netanyahu and his showmanship. Read more [...]
Saudi export of ultra-conservatism in the era of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
James Dorsey examines the extent to which the self-styled reformist de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, is disengaging from extremist Sunni Islamist groups, or whether the Saudis’ anti-Shia obsession is making the extremists too useful a tool to drop. Read more [...]
Israel’s Netanyahu: a clown sitting on a huge pile of weapons of mass destruction
Gilad Atzmon writes:
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The real war for Syria is taking place in its skies
Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s strategy of playing both the Americans and Russians in Syria “is now beginning to unravel as Israel and the US seek to prevent Moscow and Iran from helping consolidate President Assad’s hold on power”. Read more [...]
The Jewish timeline – from Moses to Netanyahu
Gilad Atzmon writes:
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US-Saudi nuclear talks: A barometer for whither the Middle East?
James Dorsey shows how Saudi Arabia “sold” Jerusalem to Israel in return for US nuclear technology, and how Trump plans to transfer US nuclear technology to the Saudis in return for ensuring bids by US companies to build reactors in Saudi are successful. Read more [...]
Trading Jerusalem for war on Iran
James Dorsey examines how Saudi and UAE complicity in President Trump’s decision to recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital so that the Saudis could pursue their sectarian conflict with Iran could turn the Arab region into a firestorm – again. Read more [...]