(RFE/RL) – A whirlwind eases with the Iranian president’s refusal to accept his smooth-talking foreign minister’s resignation. But that doesn’t necessarily mean Mohammad Javad Zarif has the political wind at his back. The political drama over the immediate fate of Iran’s foreign minister appears to be over. Mohammad Javad Zarif was back at work less […]
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Middle East
Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy
Zarif has battled hardline resistance in parliament to new legislation tackling money laundering and terrorism financing
A Victim of Trump? Iran’s Centrist Foreign Minister Mysteriously Forced Out
Was Zarif forced out by regime hard liners angry about his role in the 2015 Nuclear Deal?
Why Proposal to Sell Saudis Nuclear Technology without Safeguards is Terrifying
Within days of President Trump’s inauguration, senior U.S. officials were promoting an initiative to transfer nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia
Israeli Bulldozers uproot 300 Palestinian-Owned Trees near Jenin
B’Tselem: “Under the guise of a “temporary military occupation,” Israel has been “using the land as its own: robbing land”
Khamenei hails Assad in Tehran as Key to “Resistance” to US
Khamenei: “The creation of the buffer that the Americans are seeking to create in Syria is an example of these dangerous conspiracies”
With Trump AWOL, Europe Woos Mideast, fearing Russian & Chinese Dominance
“We don’t want to see this vacuum soaked up by Russia and China,
A Teenage War Resister in Israel: An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East
By Rory Fanning | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Hilel Garmi’s phone is going straight to voicemail and all I’m hoping is that he’s not back in prison. I’ll soon learn that he is. Prison 6 is a military prison. It’s situated in the Israeli coastal town of Atlit, a short walk from the Mediterranean Sea and […]
Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu’s Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?
The Israel lobbies demand silence from Americans and now are even attempting to deep-six the First Amendment by more or less outlawing BDS
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