Iranian security forces have “violently arrested” Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi, her foundation has said. The Narges Foundation said Ms Mohammadi, 53, was detained in the eastern city of Mashhad, along with other activists. The Nobel Committee said it was “deeply concerned by today’s brutal arrest of Narges Mohammadi” and… Read More Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran
By Siyavash Shahabi on November 4, 2025 In the past 24 hours, security forces carried out coordinated raids on the homes of several left-wing researchers and translators in Tehran, arresting Parviz Sedaghat, Mahsa Asadollahnejad, and Shirin Karimi. They confiscated the belongings of Mohammad Maljoo and summoned him for questioning; the home of Heiman Rahimi was also searched, and… Read More The War on Minds: Inside the Iranian Regime’s Coordinated Arrests of Left Scholars
Siyavash Shahabi The struggle against religious superstition and the effort to sever the bond between religion and power have deep roots in Iran. Contrary to the widespread belief that secularism is purely a Western or modern phenomenon, Iranian history is rich with Enlightenment-driven efforts that have criticized religion not as a matter of faith, but… Read More Sadegh Hedayat on Religion, Power, and Manufactured Ignorance
NB: America’s religious fanatics have converted the Old Testament into a title deed; Jesus into a bloodthirsty warrior; Christianity into an instrument of the arms industry; and compassion for humanity into obscurantist nationalism and narcissism. To assist them in this endeavour, the US Supreme Court is functioning as a Catholic theocracy. In a word, religion… Read More Prophecy, not politics, may also shape America’s clash with Iran
By Michael Hudson / Geopolitical Economy Report Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and… Read More Michael Hudson: War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World
NB: 626 days of slaughtering Palestinians with tanks and aircraft: 187,519 killed (including 17,492 dead children). Ten days of fighting with a real army, we have a cease fire. IDF: the most moral army in the world. DS If Iran actually closes the Strait of Hormuz, the global economy doesn’t wobble—it crashes headfirst into the… Read More Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
NB: Except that it neither was, nor is a mistake, Owen; its deliberate deception. DS Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality Owen Jones As the G7 issues a statement declaring that Israel has a “right to defend itself”, you have a… Read More The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran
The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself Mohamad Bazzi In May 2003, George W Bush landed on the deck of a US aircraft carrier to deliver a triumphant speech, declaring that major combat operations in Iraq had ended – six weeks after he had ordered US troops to invade the country.… Read More Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie
Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the ‘birth pangs’ of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force – and they will not end in Iran Jonathan Cook (19 June 2025) Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of… Read More The violent new world being born is going to horrify you
In the Long Run, the Means to Nonproliferation Ends Matters Statement by Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy, and Thomas Countryman, Chair of the Board, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation and International Security, June 21, 2025 President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel’s illegal attacks against… Read More Trump Decision to Strike Iran Sets U.S. Up for Wider War, and Undermines Nonproliferation Regime / Iran says US has begun a dangerous war
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