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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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by Alistair Crooke, published on Conflicts Forum Substack, October 9, 2025 Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it easy!’. It’s …
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from the News Desk at The Cradle, June 2, 2025 After 2011, tens of thousands of foreign extremists flooded into Syria with the backing of western intelligence agencies to help topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad The US has agreed to a plan by Syria’s transitional government to incorporate …
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Statement by the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, May 13, 2025 Editor’s note: Great statement but I would keep watching this issue. Remember, we are dealing with Donald Trump here, and a country with 3 different zones of occupation controlled by 3 different countries. Congress put the sanctions on Syria and renewed …
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Sovereignty Support Movement Sovereignty for West Asia
