By Parviz Rashidi

Don’t give wrong address on Oct. 7 attack

Wounded hearts may act as time bombs in the future

TEHRAN - Donald Trump has claimed that Kamala Harris, the U.S. vice president and the Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, “hates” Israel and is responsible for the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 last year.

By Professor Hossein Askari

Could the Gaza war morph into a Muslim-Jewish war and entrap the United States?

PORTLAND - Most people have witnessed the unfolding Israeli horrors in Gaza. No sane human being could classify Israel’s war as self-defense. It is brutal carnage in real time. Israel has killed well over 40,000 Palestinians, including 30,000 women and children in Gaza, with many more likely buried under the rubble and thousands injured; it has denied food and basic medicine to suffering Palestinians who have had limbs amputated without anesthetic and who face imminent danger of starvation, cholera and polio; and it has displaced the entire population of Gaza several times over.

War on Gaza: US courts must hold Biden accountable

It is no secret that the Israeli military is carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 

Former generals blame Biden admin for chaotic fall of Kabul

The top two U.S. generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling lawmakers Tuesday that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.

By Professor Hossein Askari

American duplicity and Arab cowardice enabling Israeli war crimes and ethnic cleansing

President Biden, looking somber, keeps urging Israel to avoid civilian deaths and to use targeted strikes on Hamas. Yet he keeps supplying Israel with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs that are designed to kill indiscriminately and over a wide area! 

‘Nothing in the region is likely to de-escalate unless there is de-escalation in Gaza’: think tank

TEHRAN - In a commentary on Feb. 3, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an American think tank, said tension in the region will not de-escalate otherwise Israel ends its war on the Gaza Strip.

Hamas attack shattered Netanyahu’s long-cultivated image as “Mr. Security”: American professor

‘If Biden loses the election, one of the reasons will be his “embrace” of Netanyahu’

TEHRAN - In an article published in the National Interest, American professor Paul Pillar says Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-cultivated image as Israel’s “Mr. Security”.

Biden's sanguinary stance on Gaza runs counter to wishes of most Americans: analyst

It is no wonder some sources are referring to Biden as “Genocide Joe”

TEHRAN – A political analyst says President Joe Biden’s ruthless position on the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip even contravenes the views of most American citizens.

U.S. republicans blast Biden for “bowing” to Iran Leader in prisoner swap 

TEHRAN- Republicans have denounced the Biden administration for “bowing” to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, following reports that it had reached an agreement with Tehran on a prisoner swap in exchange for the release of billions of dollars in Iranian funds that had been frozen abroad, according to U.S. media.

By Martin Love

Countries can rot like fish out of water — from the head down…

Badly disposed homo sapiens inhabit every nook and cranny of the globe. There are enough of them, though they are a small, distinct minority, to make a soul sometimes feel ashamed of being one of the species. There is absolutely NO other species on earth that has done so much damage to other species and to themselves and to Nature for millennia as homo sapiens, and perhaps especially in the last couple of centuries as the earth’s number of humans has swelled in Malthusian leaps and bounds. Among mammals, it’s not even remotely possible to compare destructive human behaviors to the behaviors of other mammals because, simply, there is no comparison to be made. 

West resumes talks over how to deal with Iran nuclear issue: FT

The United States and the European trio of Britain, France and Germany have resumed discussions on how to engage with Iran over its nuclear activity.

Tehran warns US of swift response to any attack on bases in Syria

TERAN - Iran warned on Saturday that it will give a quick response to “any pretext” for an attack on its bases inside Syria established at the request of the Damascus government to fight terrorism.

By M.A. Saki

Xi sees opening to reduce U.S. presence in Persian Gulf: professor

TEHRAN – Hossein Askari, a professor emeritus of business and international affairs at George Washington University, sees the high-profile visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia as effort to “reduce the power and presence of the United States in the Persian Gulf” by capitalizing on the “rocky relationship” between U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).

Revival of nuclear deal will open door for talks on other issues: report

TEHRAN - In a report published on August 19, Al Monitor said if the 2015 nuclear deal is revived, then Iran, the U.S. and the European Union will sit and talk about other important issues such delisting the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) from the Foreign Terrorist Organization and exchanging prisoners.

‘Iranians have been deprived of full benefits of sanctions lifting’

EU’s Borrell: “Maximum pressure” against Iran failed

TEHRAN - In May 2018, former U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally quit the 2015 nuclear deal under his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.

By Martin Love

The U.S., aside from criminality, must be simply jealous of Russia…

Sitting smack in the middle of the proverbial “middle America” one can only wonder what’s ahead, and it looks no good.

Experts urge Biden to intensify diplomacy to revive Iran nuclear deal

TEHRAN - Experts from the Arms Control Association have strongly urged President Joe Biden to immediately intensify diplomatic efforts to break the stalemate on talks to restore compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

EU’s Mora may return to Tehran in fresh push to resurrect nuclear deal

TEHRAN - European officials are preparing to make a fresh push to salvage a nuclear deal with Iran, offering to send Enrique Mora, the European Union coordinator of the negotiations, to Tehran, according to Western diplomats.

US seeking to avoid JCPOA obligations by inventing pretexts, says ex-ambassador

TEHRAN - The talks in Vienna to resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal – JCPOA- have stalemated due to indecision by the U.S. and inventing new excuses, Iran’s former ambassador to Paris and Brussels says.

Biden’s chance to remove Trump’s poison pill: ECFR

TEHRAN - In a commentary on its website on April 13, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) said Iran and the United States are close to a deal, but both sides need to give and take to achieve the wider benefits of a renewed Joint Comprehensive plan of Action (JCPOA), the official name for the 2015 nuclear deal.

Biden tells Israel, U.S. has options if Iran diplomacy fails

During a meeting at the White House, U.S. President, Joe Biden, has told Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, that he was considering "diplomacy first" to try and address Iran's nuclear program. However, Biden added if negotiations fail he would be prepared to turn to other “unspecified” options.