News from Al Manar, March 2, 2026 Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, firmly rejected any negotiations with Washington on Monday, contradicting claims made by US President Donald Trump. “We will not negotiate with the US,” Larijani wrote on X, directly disputing Trump’s remarks in an interview …
Read More »The Popular Front Condemns the Treacherous Aggression Against Iran
Statement by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), March 2, 2026 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemns in the strongest terms the treacherous American-Zionist aggression that targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran this morning, and affirms its principled and full support for Iran, the …
Read More »Statement to Condemn U.S./Israeli Attack on Iran
Statement by The Sovereignty Support Movement for West Asia, March 1, 2026 The Sovereignty Support Movement unequivocally condemns the U.S. Israeli war on Iran. We condemn the long term use of sanctions by the United States to oppress the Iranian people and undermine the Iranian state. We condemn the continual …
Read More »The Day Before & An End to Deceptive Trumpian Diplomacy
by Alastair Crooke, published on the Conflicts Forum, February 28m 2026 Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) — for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators — confirmed the essential impasse. The US demands presented to Iran were: The complete dismantling of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites. The …
Read More »The Empire’s Recycled ISIS in Syria
by Kevork Almassian, published on Substack, February 25, 2026 When the headlines tell you that ISIS is resurfacing in Syria, that prison breaks are accelerating, and that American forces are “withdrawing,” you are supposed to read it as a chaotic but ultimately familiar story: terrorism comes back, the international community …
Read More »Israeli Finance Minister Warns ‘Plans in the Making’ for New War on Gaza
from the News Desk at The Cradle, published February 23, 2023 Editor’s note: I know, this is redundant with the messaging of the last 2 years….. but really?!? A NEW war on the continually starved and bombed people and already destroyed landscape of Gaza? The minister said Hamas will be …
Read More »The Taliban Joins the Axis of Resistance?
by Timothy Alexander Guzman, published on Global Research, February 21, 2026 Editor’s Note: Afghanistan, a country that has experience U.S. aggression since before the Taliban came to power, is a neighbor of Iran. Many Afghan refugees live or have lived in Iran. But this is a new fresh Taliban. Look …
Read More »Riyadh and Hezbollah: A Rapprochement Forged in Fire
by Tamjid Kobaissy, published on The Cradle, January 29, 2026 Lebanon has become the unlikely stage for a slow Saudi pivot toward pragmatism, as regional rifts with allies and foes alike compel Riyadh to recalculate its hard lines. Editor’s Note: This is very interesting. It is a little out of …
Read More »Maliki’s Comeback Shakes Iraq’s Fragile Order
by Abutalib Albohaya, published on The Cradle, February 17, 2026 In Baghdad, where politicians sleep with one eye open to a geography of anxiety, Iraqis awoke to a scene that revived memories of the strongman era and its unforgiving rules of engagement. Behind Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s abrupt withdrawal …
Read More »The Strategic Struggle for Gulf Leadership as Abraham Accords Fracture
from the Conflicts Forum, February 10, 2026 Bitter, zero-sum Saudi-UAE confrontation for Gulf leadership / “Saudi media war takes darker turn aiming to fracture the UAE from within” / Saudi Twitter commentators: ‘How Epstein Became an Advisor to MbS’ / WaPo: ‘Saudi Arabia-UAE epic feud matters for Trump’s plans to …
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