Also on rt.com War with Iran would be 'like Christmas for John Bolton Tucker Carlson Last, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Baghdad, ers the US is concerned that Iran's supposedly-increased activities might compromise Iraq's sovereignty.. Tensions between Washington and..…
Maybe Trump abandoned the 2015 Iran nuclear deal by accident and sent an aircraft carrier and bomber task force into the Persian Gulf last week to “send a message” to Iran by mistake. . Such framing obscures basic facts about Washington’s motives and predilection toward military..…
Nonetheless, Washington has been notching up war talk recent days and weeks, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touring the world threatening Iran at every stop at times even going out of the way to make these treats from more strategically-important spots, like Iraq.. ... war with..…
In other words, any postwar reconstruction of Iran would require hundreds of thousands of more troops than Washington has plans to deploy — it would also require far more time and money than what the Trump Administration would want to spend in postwar Iran. . Just as in Iraq, too,..…
Washington led and organized a military coalition to defeat ISIS, while countering Iran remains a “non-military objective” according to the Pentagon. ... Iran has long been the world’s foremost state-sponsor of terror. Yet Washington still clings to an Obama-era..…
A year ago, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron made humiliating visits to Washington to plead vainly with Trump to stay with the agreement, but were rebuffed. . ... Neither Tehran nor Washington want war, but that does not mean they will not get one. ..…
Hawkish American officials, led by Bolton, have reportedly presented President Trump with a new military plan aimed at Iran, which would see Washington deploy 120,000 troops to the Mideast. . The United States has been ratcheting up economic and military pressure on Iran, with Trump..…
May’s support for ramping up Canadian hostility towards Tehran takes place amidst increasingly bellicose moves by Washington that could lead to a war on Iran. . ..…
Washington has been insisting that some militia groups allied with Iran are actually proxies, implying that they acting at the behest of Iranian government. ..…
Trump’s national security adviser, the extreme hawk John Bolton has successfully ramped up Washington’s tensions with Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and to some extent also Syria. ... (The Chinese have also talked a lot recently about setting up their own international payments system, free from..…
The abrupt trip staged by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Brussels to push Washington's hard line against Iran, combined with the deployment of still more US military assets to Persian Gulf, point to Washington's calculated escalation of war crisis in the region.. ... ..…
Media Propaganda Machine Pushing for US War on Iran . by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) . ... The neocon/CIA house organ Washington Post turned truth on its head, falsely accusing Iran of a “vast online disinformation campaign.” . ..…
The specter of war with Iran bears both hallmarks of terrible military adventures Washington is again overestimating Iran's bellicose intent and underestimating its capacity to defend. ..…
This comes as hawkish American officials, led by National Security Adviser John Bolton, have reportedly presented Trump with a new military plan aimed at Iran, which would see Washington deploy tens of thousands of troops to the Middle East. . . . Hawkish American officials, led by Bolton,..…
The fact of this is that one of the major points of the policy of Trump government is the issue of Iran. The conflict between United States and Iranian people is rooted in the hostility of Washington to Iranian people. ..…
Hawkish American officials, led by Bolton, have reportedly presented President Trump with a new military plan aimed at Iran, which would see Washington deploy 120,000 troops to the Mideast. . ... Tensions have increased between the US and Iran ever since Washington began..…
Trump administration is considering plans for deploying 120,000 troops to Middle East presumably to strike Iran demonstrates how Washington's policy has gone off the rails. The proposed plan comes on the heels of Iran's decision prompted by U.S hostility to withdraw from certain,..…
The WSJ article goes on to acknowledge that no other government has endorsed this finding, and other officials doubt that Iran would have been involved: . Earlier, an American official and a senior Saudi official said Washington and its allies don’t know who was behind the attacks and..…
TEHRAN - Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei told gathering of Iranian officials that he sees no possibility of war between Tehran and Washington, adding that the recent US military buildup in the region aims to frighten Iran to yield to White House demands,..…
WASHINGTON — British military official told reporters at Pentagon on Tuesday that he saw no increased risk from Iran or allied militias Iraq or Syria.. ..…