Tag: iran

After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat

President Barack Obama’s explicit warning that he will not accept a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran may force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from his ostensible threat of war. Netanyahu had hoped that the Obama administration could be put under domestic political pressure during the election campaign to shift its policy on … Continue reading “After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat”

Obama Should Extend His Compassion

The Obama administration’s Treasury Department recently partially lifted some economic sanctions against Iran for 45 days to allow selected nonprofit groups to collect funds for victims of huge earthquakes in that country. These monetary donations are exempt from U.S. government sanctions until Oct. 5; donations of food and medicine were already permanently exempted from the … Continue reading “Obama Should Extend His Compassion”

Police Case for Iranian Bomb Plot Based on Tainted Evidence

In the three-part series “The Delhi Car Bombing: How the Police Built a False Case,” award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter dissects the Delhi police accusation against an Indian journalist and four Iranians of involvement in the Feb. 13 bombing of an Israeli embassy car. The “Special Cell” of the Delhi police has identified an Iranian, … Continue reading “Police Case for Iranian Bomb Plot Based on Tainted Evidence”

On Translating Securityspeak Into English

One might wonder, reading the American “national security” community’s pronouncements, if they refer to the same world we live in. Things make a little more sense when you realize that the Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s 1984, Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning … Continue reading “On Translating Securityspeak Into English”

Call Israel’s Bluff

The Israeli government, like other special interests prowling in Washington, is playing the American election to get what it wants. Ultimately, the Israelis want a promise that the United States will attack Iran over its nuclear program. The Israelis recently have made threats to attack Iran. Their allies in the United States were spreading the … Continue reading “Call Israel’s Bluff”

Bibi’s War

Has there ever been a more brazen display of a foreign government dragging a more powerful nation into a war not of its own choosing? I’m talking about the almost comical efforts by the Israelis to goad Washington into attacking Iran: the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has done everything and then … Continue reading “Bibi’s War”

Appeal to Non-Aligned Leaders Meeting in Tehran

This is an urgent appeal from Veterans For Peace. We are an organization of U.S. veterans formed in 1985 to try to bring an end to war. VFP is a nonprofit organization recognized by the U.N. as an NGO. We are appealing to the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement to do everything in your power … Continue reading “Appeal to Non-Aligned Leaders Meeting in Tehran”

Bibi’s Game: Nuclear Blackmail?

The Israelis are going all out to lure, threaten, and scare the US into attacking Iran: the world hasn’t seen such a frenzy of staged hysterics since my three-year-old niece threatened to hold her breath until her parents agreed to buy her all six Barbie Fashionistas. Complain, complain, complain: kvetch, kvetch, kvetch: that’s been Bibi … Continue reading “Bibi’s Game: Nuclear Blackmail?”

‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’?

U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world. Nikita Khrushchev’s decision to secretly install nuclear-armed intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba began to form in his mind sometime earlier, perhaps … Continue reading “‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’?”

Israel’s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher US Policy

Two recent interviews apparently given by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak provide evidence that the new wave of reports in the Israeli press about a possible Israeli attack on Iran is a means by which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barak hope to leverage a U.S. shift toward Israel’s red lines on Iran’s nuclear program. … Continue reading “Israel’s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher US Policy”