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The United Arab Emirates has asked Washington for a financial lifeline — and threatened to start selling oil in Chinese yuan if it does not get one. That is a contradiction of Trump’s war on […]

Reprinted from Internationalist 360°. Russia’s Security Council warned April 14 that the Pentagon is using ceasefire negotiations as cover to prepare a ground operation against Iran, even as Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy announced […]

By Ramzy Baroud Even those who oppose war often do so within a framework shaped by the very systems of power they claim to challenge. A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the […]

The ceasefire expires around April 22. The U.S. military buildup has not stopped. Every claim Donald Trump made on April 18 about a deal with Iran was false — and Iran said so publicly, in […]

On April 7, U.S. bombs hit eight major rail sections and bridges across Iran, including targets in Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kashan and Qom. Iran halted service from Mashhad and Khuzestan. The attacks followed weeks of […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used a White House briefing on April 15 to announce what he called the “financial equivalent” of a bombing campaign — a new escalation in the U.S. war on Iran. The […]

When the U.S. delegation walked out of the Islamabad talks on April 12 without an agreement, Washington moved at once to escalate. Trump announced that U.S. naval forces would impose a blockade on Iranian ports, […]