Sunday, August 2, 2026

Tag: Iran

As conflict with Iran escalates, path to peace can be found

"It is the job of the peace movement and all those who seek stability and justice in the world to work toward this outcome."

Trump pulls back from Iran attack as Bolton & Pompeo continue...

After threatening to strike Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned U.S. drone, President Trump reportedly approved, and then abruptly called...

Can U.S. progressives stop a war with Iran?

Over the last few weeks there’s been yet another surge in tensions in the Middle East, with the Islamic Republic of Iran...

How to avert the impending war on Iran

The military is currently putting the breaks on the drive to war in Iran, says a former colonel and diplomat, but concerned citizens need to step up.

Think US media won’t help lead nation into war with Iran...

"Do U.S. reporters, anchors, and editors really want more Middle Eastern blood on their hands? If not, they need to fix their rather credulous and increasingly hawkish coverage of Iran—and fix it fast."

How mainstream US media is failing us on Trump and Bolton’s...

Much of this assistance has been overt.

If Trump really only wants ‘No Iranian nukes,’ then he should...

So if what Trump wanted was “no nukes,” then he already had that in the form of the JCPOA, which he has tried to destroy!

NIAC statement on Trump’s tweet threat to ‘end’ Iran

“President Trump’s saber-rattling about Iran has reached a dangerous new low with his threat to “end” Iran – a country of 83 million men, women, and children."

‘Disturbing:’ Trump reportedly reviewed Bolton plan to threaten Iran by sending...

"It's time for our leaders to stop sleepwalking and the public to speak out as an unrestrained Iraq war architect repeats the playbook from that generational catastrophe with Iran."
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Will John Bolton’s dream to bomb Iran come true? Ex-Iranian ambassador...

"The strategy of John Bolton is a war, a sanction war, economic war on Iranian nation in order to push them to bring a regime change within inside Iran."

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