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Iran: pressure mounts from outside and within
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
EMPTY POSTURE: Children accost Donald Trump in effigy during the annual Quds Day march against Israel in Tehran
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The US assault on Venezuela is brazen and unlawful – yet our PM claims uncertainty. By refusing to confront Trump’s naked imperialism, Starmer abandons international law, mortgages British policy to Washington, and clears the ground for war, argues ANDREW MURRAY
RAINER RUPP examines former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s description of the US operation to kidnap Nicolas Maduro as a tactically successful but strategically disastrous move, with shades of Bush’s disastrous intervention in Iraq
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western outrage was absolute. Yet today, the tone is markedly more subdued regarding US aggression against Venezuela. The manner in which the media and politicians frame this invasion exposes a profound ideological double standard, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
IN HIS first term as US president, Donald Trump tore up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which had been agreed by Barack Obama in 2015, primarily to constrain Iran’s uranium enrichment programme in exchange for some sanctions relief.
For Trump, this was simply a case of Obama being “soft” on Iran, and from 2018 a policy of “maximum pressure” was adopted towards Iran, with any compromise or negotiation off the table.
The Biden administration did not fundamentally change this approach, and to all intents and purposes, foreign policy under Biden was a continuation of that under Trump in relation to Iran.
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In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
In part one of two articles, STEVE BISHOP exposes blatant lies of the warmongers who demand ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons, when it is Israel that blatantly disregards international law
The Islamic Republic’s suddenly weakened regional position exposes the nation to grave threats from US imperialism