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  • Proxy War In Syria Threatens Catastrophe For The Middle East

    In an effort to undermine Iran by overthrowing its strategic ally, Syria, western nations are using their Middle East client states to conduct a multi-pronged attack against Syria through the media, the Arab League, the United Nations and now through ...
  • Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?

    This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them and their econom...
  • Europe's Losing Game

    If adopted, EU oil shipments may end in days. Vital supplies will be lost. Rogue EU countries will be left high and around 20% dry. ...
  • India says won’t cut Iranian oil imports

    India Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced on Sunday that his country will not take steps to cut petroleum imports from Iran despite U.S. and European sanctions against Tehran, the First Post reported. ...
  • The Demise Of The Dollar

    In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Russia, Japan and France - to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese ...
  • Iran will soon cut oil to certain EU countries: oil minister

    Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has announced that Iran will cut oil exports to certain European countries in the near future in response to the recent oil embargo on the country. ...
  • Asia challenges US, Europe over Iran

    hina, India and Turkey have warned that they won’t support a ban on Iranian oil imports and will try and prevent the US from blocking Iranian oil supplies. Japan and South Korea are planning to follow suit. Europe introduced an emnargo on Iran oil i...
  • The Iranian oil embargo blowback

    If the sorry parade of European poodles - or what analyst Chris Floyd delightfully dubbed Europuppies - had any understanding of Persian culture, they would have known that blowback for their declaration of economic war in the form of an Iranian oil em...
  • Israel warns time is running out before it launches strike on Iran

    Economic sanctions by the European Union and the United States can only be allowed a limited time period to prevent Iran from attempting to acquire a nuclear arsenal before a military strike must be contemplated, Israeli leaders have declared. ...
  • US wages war of sanctions against Iran

    Washington's double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well. ...
  • Lawmaker: Iran to Stop Oil Sales to Europe This Week

    Iran's Parliament will approve a bill on Sunday requiring the government to immediately halt oil exports to Europe, a prominent lawmaker said after the European Union complied with the United States' hostile policies against Iran and decided to ban oil...
  • Why do Britain and America have LESS press freedom than just a year ago? Countries which pride themselves on free speech slide down international league table

    The UK’s slide from 19th to 28th place is partly blamed on fallout from the phone hacking scandal at the News Of The World which prompted the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics. ...
  • Avoiding a ‘Dumb War’ With Iran

    The media and the punditry have been deliberately misrepresenting facts to persuade the people of the United States to start another war, not unlike in the lead-up to the Iraq fiasco. Since 9/11, hard-liners in the United States have depicted one Musli...
  • ‘Iranian parliament mulling plan to cut oil exports to Europe’

    The Iranian parliament is discussing a plan calling for a halt to Iran’s oil exports to the European countries that voted for sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, MP Nasser Soudani has announced. ...
  • The State of the Union address: "A remarkable collection of pro-business nostrums, militarist saber-rattling, and outright lies"

    Even by debased standards of the annual State of the Union address by the US president, Obama’s speech on Tuesday night was a remarkable collection of pro-business nostrums, militarist saber-rattling, and outright lies. ...
  • Will Iran Kill the Petrodollar?

    Devastated yet still resilient Obama administration is pushing for further economic pressures against Tehran. The following report reveals how Tehran might decide to repulse joint European and American measures against its vital interests. ...
  • US soldier to serve no time for Iraq killings

    Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich demoted to rank of private but will not go behind bars, a military spokesman said. A US marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha was demoted to the rank of private but will serve no ti...
  • All that glitters is ... oil

    In his State of the Union address, United States President Barack Obama said, "Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal." ...
  • The Arab Spring’s National Security Cheerleaders

    Check out this Middle East Institute publication, “Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East,” featuring “The Power of Strategic Nonviolent Action in Arab Revolutions” by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict’s Stephen...
  • Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part VII

    With the European Union passing new sanctions on Iranian oil exports and freezing the assets of the Iranian central bank and the suspicious murder of yet another Iranian military figure, the grim situation in Iran does not seem to be letting up. ...
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