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War or democracy: No to US intervention in Iran
Under the Trump presidency it is becoming increasingly clear that the US is embarking on a ‘softening-up’ campaign in preparation for intervention in Iran, says JAMSHID AHMADI
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
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Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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WHILE many governments ignore the violations of human and democratic rights in Iran perpetuated by its fundamentalist Islamist regime, it has to be recognised that in the current situation it is not Iran that is threatening to launch an all-out invasion of other states, it is the United States.
Two of Iran’s neighbours, Iraq and Afghanistan, have suffered tens of thousands of dead and wounded civilians as a result of US aggression and terroristic assaults to their communities and populations since the millennium.
Many will be able to recall the “softening-up” US strategy as a preliminary to the invasion of Iraq.
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