Tag Archives: Iran

Binyamin Netanyahu’s World War

Netanyahu's world war Gilad Atzmon writes: On 10 September Read more [...]

The West’s trumped-up hatred of Iran

Netanyahu and Trump shaking hands As tension between the US and Iran escalates with Donald Trump daily barking threats at Tehran, Stuart Littlewood explains that the Washington-orchestrated hatred of Iran serves the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel dominating the Middle East. Read more [...]

Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent

Yemen catastrophe James Dorsey says once the Saudi war on Yemen ends, the risk is of the emergence of a generation that has nothing to look forward to and nothing to lose – one that is likely to deeply resent what it perceives Saudi Arabia has done to its country. Read more [...]

Who is the vassal: the US or Israel?

Tramp and Netanyahu close-up

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

Saudi funding of extremists

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

Bibi Baby

Gilad Atzmon writes:
On 30 April Read more [...]

The real war for Syria is taking place in its skies

Russia's S-300 surface-to-air missiles

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

Jews from Moses to Netanyahu

Gilad Atzmon writes:
The Jewish Read more [...]

US-Saudi nuclear talks: A barometer for whither the Middle East?

US-Saudi nuclear transfer

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

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad and President Trump

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 [...]