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.

By Munir A. Saeed

Sometimes it takes a volcano to start the healing 

Let me start by saying something some may consider outrageous. 

‘Maximum pressure’ on Iran has failed: NY Times

TEHRAN – In a commentary on Saturday, April 10, the New York Times editorial board wrote that a return to the 2015 nuclear deal “is the first step out of the morass”.

By Martin Love

Huge whiffs of desperation in Washington now…

How grand that China and Iran have finally formalized, after several years of waiting, a 25 year (and likely more) “strategic agreement” that’s going to encompass not just trade and economies, but also cultural, educational, medical and other spheres, too.

Iran using new advanced centrifuges at Natanz

TEHRAN – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has started feeding uranium into cluster of 174 IR-2m centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear facility, the IAEA confirmed in a report on Thursday.

World not limited to the West, Iran’s top security official says

TEHRAN - The world is not limited the West and the West is not also just law-breaking U.S. and the three European countries of Britain, France and Germany which reneged on their commitments to uphold the terms of the JCPOA, the official name for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a top Iran’s security official said on Monday.

Analyst says the U.S. owes Iran much

TEHRAN – A journalist and analyst who writes in Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post, enumerates a number of injustices that the United States has done against Iran.

Ex-Israeli generals, Mossad spymasters urge Biden's return to Iran deal

A group of former top officials from Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, the IDF and the Mossad sent a letter on Monday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing support for a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.

By M.A. Saki

Ex-assistant secretary of state proposes ‘a return to private negotiation’ to revive JCPOA

TEHRAN - Thomas Countryman, a top arms control official in the Obama administration, suggests “a return to private negotiation” between Iran and the United States for a revitalization of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).