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U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook announces U.S. sanctions against Iranian Brig. Gen. Hassan Shavapour on Jan. 17, 2020, at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

US official says successor to Soleimani faces same fate if he kills Americans

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U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook said the successor to slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, who now heads the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, would suffer the...
Protests at Amir Kabir University in Tehran against the government and its leaders after Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 passengers on board. Photo: Mohsen Abolghasem via Wikimedia Commons.

How solidarity with Palestine inspires resistance in Iran

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Once again, talk of regime change is in the air inside Iran. Not since the crushing of the 2009 student-led protests has the Islamic Republic, as of this year entering the fifth decade of...
Jordan's King Abdullah (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump walk along the West Colonnade towards the podiums before a joint press briefing at the White House on April 5, 2017. Credit: White House/Shealah Craighead.

Jordan: Israeli annexation ‘unthinkable,’ US-Iran war would cause ‘untold chaos’

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Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned on Wednesday that Israeli attempts to “impose an unthinkable solution” on the Palestinians could end hopes for a Palestinian state, and said that a war between Iran and the...

The making of a president?

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A few months ago, due to the repeated haplessness of U.S. President Donald Trump in the face of major Iranian provocations, I wrote a scathing article titled “No Principles, No Dignity, No Power, No...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Iran announces arrests in downing of Ukrainian plane, as street protests rage

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Iran announced on Tuesday that it had arrested those suspected of having a role in the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet last week, as anti-government protests sparked by the incident raged for a fourth...

Iranian students refuse to walk on US, Israel flags during anti-government protest

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In an apparent act of defiance against the Iranian government, hundreds of student protesters at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran on Sunday refused to walk over U.S. and Israeli flags. In a video clip of...

The perverse Western mourning for Qassem Soleimani

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The liberal world is aghast. President Donald Trump has done something that repudiates the very rules of nature by which Western progressives live. Faced with a military general intent on ramping up the decades-long war...

Post-missile attacks, Iran takes an off-ramp as America aims for de-escalation

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Much to the world’s relief, it appears that Iran has gotten the message and will not escalate tensions in the region after retaliating for the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Maj. Gen. Qassem...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a visit to Semnan Province, Iran, on April, 17, 2016. Photo: Mohammad Reza Meysami via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran used to be a consensus issue, but partisanship has changed that

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After the world held its collective breath for several days waiting to see how terrible Iran’s revenge for the American strike that killed its chief terrorist, the missile strike on two U.S. bases in...
A Ukrainian National Airlines Boeing 737 landing in Italy on June 13, 2010. Photo: Aldo Bidini via Wikimedia Commons.

Ukrainian airliner goes down in Tehran, killing 176

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A Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard. Though a spokesman for Iran’s Road and Transportation Ministry claimed that the crash was caused...