Author: Gary Wilson

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 […]

The U.S. war on Iran had barely begun before the oil companies started to cash in. Working people know how this goes. When crude prices jump, gas prices rise almost immediately. When crude prices fall, […]

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, […]

The Islamabad talks between the United States and Iran broke up after 21 hours with no deal. Washington came to the table trying to win through negotiation what it had failed to impose through war. […]

The U.S. war on Iran was launched for regime change — to overthrow the government and restore imperialist control over a country it once dominated after the 1953 CIA-backed coup that imposed the Shah. It […]

Israeli jets killed at least 254 people in Lebanon on April 8 — the deadliest single day of Israeli attacks on the country since 2006 — just hours after the Trump administration announced a ceasefire […]