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Why Iran, Not Venezuela, Is the Likeliest U.S. War

The Trump administration is the most bellicose and active on Venezuela, but Iran has never gone away as a target. The Trump administration is trying to link Iran to al-Qaeda. The U.S. is building up anti-regime organizations, which is always a component of regime change policy. And the Trump administration (and Facebook) are playing up...

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Iran Spy Services Target Amad, Independent News Site

Al-Monitor reports Iran’s state TV is “Last Station of Lies,” a controversial documentary series that claims to reveal the truth about outside forces seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic. Part two of the series focuses on Amad News. Founded in 2015 by Ruhollah Zam, an exiled journalist based in Paris, Amad News has long been demonized by the Islamic Republic, cast as a news...

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In Honor of James Angleton, Founding Father of the CIA-Mossad Alliance

In an obtrusive spot on a winding path through a hilside park above the ancient walls of the Old Jerusalem lies a stone memorial to one of the CIA’s most controversial spies. It a geopolitical monument hidden in plain view. The stone–carved in English, Hebrew and Arabic—honors the memory of James Angleton, the first chief...

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Trump Administration Rehabilitates the MEK, Pro-Saddam Iranians 

In Iran, the organization known as the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), is “understood to be widely reviled inside Iran as a leftist Islamist cult that sided with Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war,” writes diplomatic correspondent Barbarba Slavin. The Iran-Iraq war resulted in the deaths of  a million Iranians, so the MEK is understandably unpopular....

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New Pictures of Iran Green Movement Leaders Go Viral

A new photo of an Iranian opposition figures – Mir Hossein Musavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard — who have been held under house arrest for the past eight years has emerged on social media in the country–and immediately went viral. Musavi and reformist cleric Mehdi Karrubi emerged as opposition leader during Iran’s disputed 2009...