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China’s Middle East Deal: Iran & Saudi Arabia Reestablish Relations as U.S....
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at a new agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reestablish diplomatic relations...
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Workers’ Organizations and ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: A Bottom-Up Solidarity in...
On February 15th, twenty workers’ unions, feminists, students, and one human rights organization in Iran published the Charter of Minimum Demands of Independent Civil and Trade Unions of Iran, the...
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Saudi-Iran Reconciliation: How China Is Reshaping The Middle East
As President Xi Jinping begins his third term in office this week, it seems that China has abandoned its once low-profile foreign policy and now seeks to assert itself as an imperial state that...
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The Key Factor in The Saudi – Iran Deal: Absolutely No U.S. Involvement
Ever since it pushed aside colonial Britain and France, the United States has prided itself on being the dominant outside power in the Middle East. That lofty image was shaken this past week by the...
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Censorship in Germany, Israeli Hacking & Saudi-Iran Peace Deal
In this episode of The Source, we speak with independent journalist, author and economist Dr. Shir Hever about how and why his lecture on child labor in Palestine was abruptly censored by the GEW...
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The Revolt in Iran Is Rallying Its Diverse Working Class
Protesting crowds, clapping and chanting azadi, azadi, azadi, surround a police car, pushing it until the vehicle tips over. A girl with a covered face, her hair in a tight ponytail, climbs on the car...
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Will It Never Stop?
“It is time,” President Biden announced in April 2021, “to end the forever war” that started with the invasion of Afghanistan soon after the tragic terror attacks on this country on September 11, 2001....
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Houthis and Saudis Shake Hands in Yemen: End of World’s Worst Humanitarian...
After China helped to broker a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia last month, Saudi, Houthi and Omani delegations are meeting in Yemen to begin peace talks to end the 9-year war. Shireen...
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Journalists Who Broke Mahsa Amini Story Stand Trial Behind Closed Doors
Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. To subscribe, click here. I’m RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here’s...
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70 Years After Iranian Coup, the British Still Won’t Confess to Their Crimes
On Aug. 19, 1953, 70 years ago this week, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh—who had seized Iran’s vast oil fields from the British and put them under Iranian...
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How Britain Crushed Democracy in Iran
19 August marks an ignominious anniversary: the 70th anniversary of the coup against Mohammed Mossadegh and the snuffing out of Iranian democracy. Popularly remembered largely as a CIA-led operation,...
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“Axis of Resistance”: Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis Challenge U.S. & Israeli...
We look at how Israel’s war on Gaza has inflamed tensions in the Middle East and threatens to pull other countries into the fighting, including the United States. The Pentagon says it has intercepted a...
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Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing Of Gaza
In this episode of The Source, we interview independent journalist and economist Dr. Shir Hever on the latest developments surrounding Israel’s war in Gaza. We begin the interview by examining an...
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Deadly Bombing in Iran Kills Dozens as Tensions Rise Across the Middle East
Twin explosions in the Iranian province of Kerman killed dozens and injured hundreds Wednesday at a memorial for top Revolutionary Guards general Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a U.S. drone...
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The Baluchistan Imbroglio
The level of ignorance in Western coverage of the border clashes between Iran and Pakistan should come as no surprise. Nor should the State Department declaration that Pakistan’s response was...
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The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
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Is Tehran Winning the Middle East?
In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has lasted since the pro-American Shah of Iran...
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Is Israel’s plan to draw the US into a war with Iran?
The latest Israeli heightening of violence in an already violent region presents the Biden administration with one of its biggest challenges yet in keeping the United States out of a new Middle East...
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For the second time this year, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with his Georgian counterpart on March 24. The meeting, held in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan, saw both leaders reaffirming...
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Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, Baits Iran Into His...
Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated Negev Desert (where it was mainly Palestinian Bedouin...
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Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from...
The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack...
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Rush to Battle Stations After Iran Attack
Members of Congress who have said little to nothing about the over 33,000 Palestinians dead amid Israeli bombs and artillery — two-thirds deemed innocent civilians — in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas...
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Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S....
The Israeli bombing of an Iranian consular office in Damascus on April 1 was the first salvo in a new phase of a regional conflict between the two countries. The attack, which killed several senior...
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Calls for De-Escalation Mount as Israel Plans to ‘Exact a Price From Iran’
Since Iran on Saturday sent hundreds of drones and missiles—which were mostly shot down—toward Israel to retaliate for an Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, anti-war voices around the...
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Iran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
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Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
[Prefatory Note: This is a revised text of an opinion piece published in Turkish, a contribution invited by Semin Gumusel on April 14, 2024; developments arising from the convergent incidents on April...
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The Coming Israeli Attack On Iran (Plus: ‘Tehran Found Itself Backed Into A...
There is little doubt that Israel will respond to Iran’s launch of three hundred and twenty drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles on its territory with a major attack on Iran, and this for...
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Under UN Charter, Iran’s Attack Was a Legal Response to Israel’s Illegal Attack
On April 1, Israel mounted an unprovoked military attack on a building that was part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven of Iran’s senior military advisers and five...
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Iranian President Dead in Crash: Now Comes the Night of Long Knives
Iran’s Mehr News Service reported Monday morning Tehran time that President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died Sunday in a helicopter crash in a remote area of Iran. They...
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