Tag: U.S.-Iran Tensions
US official says successor to Soleimani faces same fate if he kills Americans
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...
How solidarity with Palestine inspires resistance in Iran
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: Israeli annexation ‘unthinkable,’ US-Iran war would cause ‘untold chaos’
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?
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...
Iran announces arrests in downing of Ukrainian plane, as street protests rage
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
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
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
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...
Iran used to be a consensus issue, but partisanship has changed that
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...
Ukrainian airliner goes down in Tehran, killing 176
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...