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IRAN ANTHOLOGY #32
JULY 30, 2022
COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE
(#11 Oct. 8, 2011; #12 Jan. 31, 2012; #13 Feb. 22, 2012; #14 Feb. 26, 2012; #15 March 17, 2012; #16 April 12, 2012; #17 May 21, 2012; #18, July 9, 2012; #19 August 13, 2012; #20 Sept. 10, 2012; #21, Dec. 14, 2012; #22 March 5, 2013; #23 Nov. 12, 2013; #24 March 5, 2014; #25 January 17, 2015; #26, July 28, 2015; #27, June 3, 2018; #28, June 21, 2019; #29, July 11, 2019; #30, August 9, 2019; #31, August 23, 2019.)
CONTENTS IRAN ANTHOLOGY #32
[History of US/Iranian Friendship]
[US GLOBAL IMPERIAL AGGRESSION V. IRAN: HISTORY. See Anthologies 1-31]
[1953 CIA organized coup d’état overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh]
[1979 Iranian Revolution and US Embassy Hostages]
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 2017-2021
US PREPARING FOR WAR V. IRAN AGAIN
2018
“The Coming American Assault on Iran 2018.”
2019
Bolton’s plans for war
WIN WITHOUT WAR Protests
2022
Google Search:
U.S. Leaves Iran Deal, Violates World Order and Risks War.
US Media: How to Start a War
Peace Action 2019
JOE BIDEN INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT JANUARY 20, 2021
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES THE AGGRESSION
US PREPARING FOR WAR v. IRAN AGAIN 2022
Chris Hedges. “War with Iran.” The United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are plotting a war with Iran.
Ted Snider. “Why Is Biden Joining The Warpath Against Iran?”
Mitchell Plitnick. “Biden’s Words Make War with Iran More Likely.”
PEACE MOVEMENT v WAR WITH IRAN: FROM JIMMY CARTER TO CODE PINK
Brett Wilkins. “Jimmy Carter. US 'Most Warlike Nation in History of the World'.” 2019.
Code Pink, 2018 to Present
CONTENTS: IRAN NEWSLETTER #31, AUGUST 23, 2019.
TEXTS
US/IRAN FRIENDSHIP, A PATH ABANDONED
11-2-18 The Iranian Students Association (ISA) at the university of Arkansas will host an invited speaker, Dr. Afshin Marashi, who will give a lecture titled “Old Friends: The Forgotten History of US-Iranian Relations”.
. . . . Iran and the United States have been in conflict with one another since the 1979 Iranian revolution and the ensuing 444-day hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. One consequence of this troubled history has been each country’s use of harsh rhetoric — including slogans such as “the Great Satan” and “the Axis of Evil” — to describe one another. Another equally important consequence of this now forty-year US-Iranian “Cold War” has been to obscure a much older and much more enduring history of US-Iranian social, economic, cultural, and political interaction and cooperation. From the history of religion, philosophy, and literature, to education, medicine, agriculture, and politics Iranians and Americans have had a long history of mutual understanding and cooperation that stretches back to the early nineteenth century. This talk will survey the legacy of this shared past, and will highlight key episodes in the forgotten history of US-Iranian relations.
[2015 Iranian Nuclear Arms Accord, the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).]
US GLOBAL IMPERIAL AGGRESSION V. IRAN
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION:
US PREPARING FOR WAR V. IRAN AGAIN
2018
“The Coming American Assault on Iran 2018.” 05/11/2018 (Also published in Z Magazine Aug. 2018). https://www.juancole.com/2018/05/coming-american-assault.html
The new American strategy on Iran is to dismantle the nuclear deal and lay the groundwork for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Mike Pompeo, Trump’s most recent Secretary of State, recently visited Saudi Arabia and Israel, and in both countries he focused almost exclusively on Iran. As yesterday’s early morning bombing of Iranian targets in Syria has shown, the Israelis are becoming increasingly concerned that a permanent Iranian military presence in Syria will harm their security.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently expressed dismay when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov refused to rule out a long-term Iranian presence in the Golan Heights. John Kerry recently revealed that the Israelis frequently appealed to the Obama administration to attack Iranian nuclear sites. He also revealed that all American allies in the Middle East have repeatedly implored the United States to take military action against Iran.
The Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) was specifically focused on freezing Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium over the next 25 years. In 2014, Pompeo, then Republican senator of Kansas, went on record as stating that “it is under 2,000 sorties to destroy the Iranian nuclear capacity. This is not an insurmountable task for the coalition forces.” These are not the words of a man who has much patience for diplomacy.
North Korea is different: it already has nuclear weapons and the ability to strike American targets. Pompeo speaks softly with the North Koreans, but with Iran, which has no nuclear capacities (and according to Pompeo himself, was not seeking them prior to the nuclear deal), he carries a stick. John Bolton, whose support for the criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003 is well documented, has long advocated a military strike against Iran, and he has a very cozy relationship with the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, an Iranian dissident organization dedicated to regime change in Iran.
No doubt, the Trump administration does not expect the Iranians to accept any renegotiation of the nuclear deal. This is already clear from the absurd requirements they expect the Iranians to accept in any future deal. They want Iran to refrain from pursuing its geopolitical objectives in the region while Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel freely pursue their own policy of further destroying the Palestinians, supporting radical Islamists in Syria against Asad, and creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world in Yemen.
For their part, the Iranians already see the nuclear deal as a huge compromise: Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the treaty clearly states that signatories are not under any legal obligation to refrain from enriching uranium, so long as it is used for civilian, not military purposes. The fact that the Iranians even accepted this deal is already a major concession to Western powers, and the only reason they accepted the deal was to escape years of crippling economic sanctions. The idea that they would now return to the table after years of grueling negotiations is highly unlikely.
The Trump administration no doubt knows this, and must already have discussed how to react to the possibility of Iran’s decision to pull out of the deal. The Trump administration will do all it can to freeze Iran’s economy and sanction any European firm that does business with Iran, effectively re-imposing the sanctions the Iranians hoped to escape by signing the nuclear deal: “Even once all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran have been lifted, Iran will remain one of the most sanctioned countries on earth.”
This de facto blockade will embolden hardliners in Iran who saw in the nuclear deal little more than capitulation to the fickle and ever-changing demands of the West. The Iranians will themselves abandon the deal if the cost of remaining in it becomes higher than the cost of pulling out. They may decide to reinstate their enrichment program. The Trump administration is betting that this will occur, and that it will cause European powers to unite behind an American military strike against Iran. All of the pieces will be in place.
No sooner did Pompeo end his brief visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel than did Netanyahu go live on Israeli television and, standing behind a screen that read “Iran Lied” in big black letters, claim that he has special evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear program. Political theatre: the Washington Post reports that most of the evidence presented dates back to 2015, before the nuclear deal was even signed, and that “intelligence experts and diplomats said he did not seem to have presented a ‘smoking gun’ showing that Iran had violated the agreement, although he may have helped make a case on behalf of hawks in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration who want to scrap it.” He appears to have succeeded.
The meaning of Trump’s alleged “isolationism” is finally becoming clear: what he really opposes are large-scale ground invasions (which he perceives as a drain on American military resources), not air campaigns against foreign adversaries. He hired Pompeo and Bolton partly in order to pursue a more aggressive strategy against Iran. They know what they are doing.
An American strike against Iran raises the specter of a wider regional war. Unlike their mute response to Israel’s recent strike against Iranian targets in Syria, the Russians will likely see any attack on Iran as an attack on one of their key assets in the region. Those opposed to military action against Iran urgently need to start speaking up now if they hope to inform the American public on the disastrous consequences any attack against Iran is likely to have, for the region and for the Iranian people themselves.
Tarek R. Dika teaches philosophy in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame
Did Trump Break the Law? U.S. Leaves Iran Deal, Violates World ...
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May 9, 2018. U.S. Leaves Iran Deal, Violates World Order and Risks War, Experts Say ... to as “the worst deal ever ...
Donald Trump says US will no longer abide by Iran deal – as it ...
https://www.theguardian.com › world › live › may › iran-nuclear-deal-don...
May 8, 2018 - Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon announced the US would violate the Irannuclear agreement, nearly three years after the the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was struck. In exiting the JCPOA, Trump broke from US allies in Europe and has potentially triggered a new ...
On May 8, 2018, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Unofficially known as the “Iran Deal” or the “Iran Nuclear Deal”, the Joint .... of the majority of states and exclusively in its own narrow-minded and opportunistic interests, in flagrant violation of international law.
OMNI PROTEST OF US THREATENING WAR AGAINST IRAN Ends August 31, 2019
OMNI’s pause in its Stop Iran War & Stop Imperialism Peace Protests, Week 12, August 31, 2019.
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Dear Friends,
With a great demonstration of conviction, we've held 11 consecutive weeks (3 months) of peace protests calling for a stop to war on Iran and imperialist warfare everywhere. We've certainly reached the minds of thousands of Arkansans, both through media coverage and the many honking cars.
Here are a few photos from Week 11
We've decided that this coming Saturday will be our final protest in this series, but should hostilities escalate, we will resume. We'll also be prepared to organize a snap protest at Senator Tom Cotton's office if and when threats of war are peaking. Please bring your friends this next Saturday, August 31, at 11 a.m. in front of the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. Let's go out with a bang for peace!
If you can, please help print/distribute the attached fliers, especially at Farmers Market & UA campus. Also, if you're on Facebook, please share & invite your friends to this Facebook event page.
See You Saturday!
Bolton’s plans for war
March 11, 2019
WIN WITHOUT WAR
Dick, did you see my email yesterday? The Trump administration is racing toward war with Iran — John Bolton even demanded plans for a full-scale military strike.
We’ve seen this build-up before. We’ve seen the deadly consequences. We HAVE to stop Trump, Bolton, and their Iran hawk cronies from dragging us into a devastating war of choice cribbed right from the Iraq war playbook.
—Stephen
Dick,
Breaking: John Bolton asked the Pentagon to draw up plans to bomb Iran.
Last spring, amid a wave of domestic protests in Iraq, several shells landed near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. News just leaked that Bolton used this incident to demand plans to launch a full-scale military strike on Iran – shocking even top military officers. [1]
Bluffing and fearmongering to plunge us into a deadly war of choice? We’ve seen this before. We’re looking at a horrifying repeat of the Iraq War playbook.
We HAVE to stop this. And as Trump brings the federal government to a standstill with his racist tantrums, Win Without War is one of the few groups 100% focused on blocking Trump’s path to war with Iran. We are using every tactic at our disposal — from Congress to the media. And we need your support.
Trump’s march to war with Iran isn’t a “last spring” problem. It’s a RIGHT NOW problem.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the middle of a recruitment tour to create a coalition of autocrats ready to go to war with Iran. We’re talking dictators like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who engineered the devastating war in Yemen and the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. [2]
Why? Because international support — a “Coalition of the Willing” 2.0 — is one of the last ingredients Trump needs to get in place to spark a terrible war with Iran.
Dick, most of the government is in the grip of a total shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are going without paychecks, health care access, and other fundamental needs. But Pompeo’s visits to his authoritarian buddies this week prove that the Iran war machine isn’t shutting down. It’s picking up speed.
That’s why Win Without War is going all out to block the march to war with Iran, before Bolton can manufacture another excuse for war out of thin air. We’re demanding Congressional put up legislative roadblocks to war. We’re outlining the clear diplomatic alternatives. We’re raising the alarm in the media. And we need your help:
Today’s news pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening behind the closed doors of Trump’s war cabinet. It’s terrifying — and I’m so grateful for activists like you who refuse to stay silent while John Bolton works overtime to drag us into a terrible war of choice.
Thank you for working for peace,
Stephen, Kate, Cassandra, and the Win Without War team
[1] New York Times, “Pentagon Officials Fear Bolton’s Actions Increase Risk of Clash With Iran"
[2] New York Times, “Pompeo Speech Lays Out Vision for Middle East, Taking Shots at Obama“
WIN WITHOUT WAR v. Trump
Dick — The Trump administration is making B-list movie posters to normalize the path to war with Iran. [1]
It would be funny, if it weren’t so deadly serious. This level of blatant propaganda for war with Iran is straight out of the Iraq War playbook:
[= the US world domination playbook].
Step one: Get the American public to think Iran [Russia, North Korea, Venezuela] is evil.
Step two: Call for regime change.
Step three: Start a devastating war of choice with Iran.
The silver lining here is, Win Without War knows the Iraq War playbook inside and out. What’s more, we know how to beat it. We’re stiffening Congress’ spines. We’re exposing the regime change industry and their shady schemes. We’re absolutely not about to let the Trump administration drag the American public off the cliff into a devastating war of choice with Iran.
Now, when Trump is threatening Iran with regime change in front of a room of world leaders.
Now, when we have a brand-new bill that would block Trump’s path to war with Iran — and we need to mobilize fast to get the Senate on board.
Thank you for working for peace,
Cassandra, Amy, Stephen, and the Win Without War team
[1] U.S. State Department Twitter
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Iran 'Violates' Nuclear Deal, After US 'Withdraws' | FAIR
https://fair.org › home › iran-violates-nuclear-deal-after-us-withdraws
Jun 21, 2019 - Quick question: Does the US ever break, breach or violate its international agreements? Apparently not, according to US coverage of Iran’s ...
“US ‘Withdraws’; Iran ‘Violates.’” Extra! The Newsletter of FAIR. (August-Sept. 2019).
Media outlets, lawmakers conveniently forget that US violated the Iran ... https://thinkprogress.org › media-outlets-lawmakers-us-violated-iran-nucle... Jun 20, 2019 - Donald Trump speaks at a the Stop The Iran Nuclear Deal protest in front of .... Note Iran “violates” the deal, the US simply “withdraws” from it ...
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES THE AGGRESSION
US PREPARING FOR WAR v. IRAN AGAIN 2022
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The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran. |
Narrated by Eunice Wong
The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia are plotting a war with Iran. The 2015 Iranian nuclear arms accord, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Donald Trump sabotaged, does not look like it will be revived. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is reviewing options to attack if Teheran looks poised to obtain a nuclear weapon and Israel, which opposes U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations, carries out military strikes.
During his visit to Israel, Biden assured Prime Minister Yair Lapid that the U.S. is “prepared to use all elements of its national power,” including military force, to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. function as a troika in the Middle East. The Israeli government has built a close alliance with Saudi Arabia, which produced 15 of the 19 hijackers in the September 11 attacks and has been a prolific sponsor of international terrorism, supporting Salafi jihadism, the basis of al-Qaeda, and such groups as the Afghanistan Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Al-Nusra Front.
The three countries worked in tandem to back the 2013 military coup in Egypt, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew its first democratically elected government. He has imprisoned tens of thousands of government critics, including journalists and human rights defenders, on politically motivated charges. The Sisi regime collaborates with Israel by keeping its common border with Gaza closed to Palestinians, trapping them in the Gaza strip, one of the most densely populated and impoverished places on earth.
Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East, has conducted an ongoing campaign of covert attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and nuclear scientists. Four Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated, presumably by Israel, between 2010 and 2012. In July 2020, a fire, attributed to an Israeli bomb, damaged Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. In November 2020, Israel used remote control machine guns to assassinate Iran’s top nuclear scientist. In January 2020, the United States assassinated Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, along with nine other people including a key figure in the anti-ISIS coalition, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. It used an MQ-9 Reaper to fire missiles into his convoy, near Baghdad’s airport.
If similar attacks had been carried out by Iranian operatives inside Israel, it would have triggered a war. Only Iran’s decision not to retaliate, beyond lobbing about a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq, prevented a conflagration.
On July 7, Iran informed The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it is using IR-6 centrifuges with "modified subheaders.” The declared purpose of the enrichment process at its underground facility at Fordow is to create uranium isotope enriched up to 20 percent—far below the 90 percent enrichment levels necessary to create weapons-grade uranium. Under the JCPOA agreement, enrichment levels were capped at 3.67 percent.
Israel has allocated $1.5 billion for a potential strike against Iran and, during the first week of June, held large-scale military exercises, including one over the Mediterranean and in the Red Sea, in preparation to attack Iranian nuclear sites using dozens of fighter aircraft, including Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.
The 2016 Memorandum of Understanding signed by President Barack Obama provides a 10-year, $38 billion military package for Israel.
Israel and its lobby in the U.S. are working to scuttle negotiations with Iran to monitor its nuclear program. The preparation for war mirrors the Israeli pressure on the U.S. to invade Iraq, one of the worst strategic decisions in U.S. history. MOREListen to This Article: "War with Iran"
Why Is Biden Joining The Warpath Against Iran?
By Ted Snider, Responsible Statecraft. Popular Resistance.org (7-21-22). On March 24, President Biden drew a red line: if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, it “would trigger a response” from NATO. Asked to elaborate on the nature of the response, Biden had no script to guide him. “The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.” Then, he elaborated: “It would trigger a response in kind,” seemingly announcing that the US would respond to a Russian chemical weapons attack with a chemical weapons attack of their own. Two days later, at the end of his speech, Biden seemed to call for a coup in Russia, adding the line, “For God’s sake, this man... -more-
Mitchell Plitnick. Biden’s Words Make War With Iran More Likely. Mondoweiss. July 16, 2022.
Joe Biden sat down for a wide-ranging interview with an Israeli television station. In it, there were two chilling statements regarding Iran. When asked if he was prepared to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal (or JCPOA) if the only way to close the deal was to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) he said, simply, “Yes.” And when asked if he was prepared to use military force against Iran, he responded, “As a last resort, yes.” That was not good enough for Acting Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, but it was a very grim assessment of... -more-
“Joe Biden’s Chilling Statements To An Israeli TV Interviewer Present A Grim Outlook For Reviving The Iran Deal.” https://popularresistance.org/bidens-words-make-war-with-iran-more-likely/
PROTESTS for PEACE: FROM JIMMY CARTER TO CODE PINK
Brett Wilkins. “Jimmy Carter. US 'Most Warlike Nation in History of the World'.” Common Dreams. Thursday, April 18, 2019.
. . . .Carter then said the US has been at peace for only 16 of its 242 years as a nation. Counting wars, military attacks and military occupations, there have actually only been five years of peace in US history—1976, the last year of the Gerald Ford administration and 1977-80, the entirety of Carter’s presidency. Carter then referred to the US as “the most warlike nation in the history of the world,” a result, he said, of the US forcing other countries to “adopt our American principles.”
China’s peace dividend has allowed and enhanced its economic growth, Carter said. “How many miles of high-speed railroad do we have in this country?” he asked. China has around 18,000 miles (29,000 km) of high speed rail lines while the US has “wasted, I think, $3 trillion” on military spending. According to a November 2018 study by Brown University’s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, the US has spent $5.9 trillion waging war in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other nations since 2001.
“It’s more than you can imagine,” Carter said of US war spending. “China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that’s why they’re ahead of us. In almost every way.”
“And I think the difference is if you take $3 trillion and put it in American infrastructure you’d probably have $2 trillion leftover,” Carter told his congregation. “We’d have high-speed railroad. We’d have bridges that aren’t collapsing, we’d have roads that are maintained properly. Our education system would be as good as that of say South Korea or Hong Kong.”
While there is a prevalent belief in the United States that the country almost always wages war for noble purposes and in defense of freedom, global public opinion and facts paint a very different picture. Most countries surveyed in a 2013 WIN/Gallup poll identified the United States as the greatest threat to world peace, and a 2017 Pew Research poll found that a record number of people in 30 surveyed nations viewed US power and influence as a “major threat.”
The US has also invaded or bombed dozens of countries and supported nearly every single right wing dictatorship in the world since the end of World War II. It has overthrown or attempted to overthrow dozens of foreign governments since 1949 and has actively sought to crush nearly every single people’s liberation movement over that same period. It has also meddled in scores of elections, in countries that are allies and adversaries alike.
BRETT WILKINS is a staff writer for Common Dreams.https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/18/jimmy-carter-us-most-warlike-nation-history-world
CODE PINK’S STEADY OPPOSITION TO US AGGRESSION FROM 2018 TO PRESENT
[Several items preceding 2018 that I might have included were no longer available, or, rather, readily for all online materials have been archived. We should be concerned that in preserving historical memory--the great achievement of printed books and libraries--, the internet is less reliable and accessible.
MEDEA BENJAMIN AND CODE PINK PEACEMAKERS 2018-PRESENT
Medea Benjamin. Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. OR Books, 2018.
Reviews and Comment
Rev. by Denny Riley. “A Clear Exposition of a Complex History.” Peace in Our Times (Fall 2018).
Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. - Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Iran-History-Politics-Republic/dp/1944869654
U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the ...
The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow YouTube - May 8, 2018
Medea Benjamin at Bluestockings: Inside Iran
Joe Friendly
Inside Iran with CodePink's Medea Benjamin
Thom Hartmann Program
Medea Benjamin on Her New Book: Inside Iran #FaultLines
Fault Lines Radio
"Inside Iran" with Medea Benjamin
MN Progressive Media
Code Pink: Medea Benjamin "Inside Iran"
Medea Benjamin: The Peace Movement Must Mobilize to Support ...
Democracy Now!
YouTube - May 9, 2018
Day 3-CODEPINK meets Iran's Foreign Minister
https://www.codepink.org › day_3An approach common among Iranians present was the familiar argument that so long as the U.S. threatens Iran with sanctions and invasion, it lacks moral ......
CodePink's Medea Benjamin to Iran Envoy: “You Are Making ...
https://www.democracynow.org › 2018 › headlines › c...
Sep 20, 2018 — And CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin disrupted an event at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank where the U.S. special envoy to ......
State Department on Iran's Missile Proliferation - The Iran Primer
https://iranprimer.usip.org › blog › 2018 › sep › state-d...Sep 21, 2018 — At the end of Hook's remarks, Medea Benjamin, from the Code Pink: Women for Peace organization, took the stage to protest the Trump ...
Open Letter to Code Pink - Oakland Socialist
https://oaklandsocialist.com › 2018/12/02 › open-letter-...
Dec 2, 2018 — December 1 · Dear Code Pink: · We think that the real issue for discussion between Americans and Iranians is that of organizing links and mutual ...
Iranian media: Code Pink defends Iran's right to missiles ...
https://www.jpost.com › Middle East › Iran News
Mar 5, 2019 — Iranians burn a U.S. flag during a protest against President Donald Trump's decision to walk out of a 2015 nuclear deal, in Tehran, Iran, May 11 ...
Trump Has Made Sanctions a Path to Strikes - Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com › 2020/01/14 › iran-suleimani-t...
Jan 14, 2020 — Members of Code Pink protest as former National Security Advisor Stephen ... escalations in hostilities between the United States and Iran.
Opinion | Biden's Iran envoy will complicate his Syria approach
https://www.washingtonpost.com › 2021/01/28 Jan 29, 2021 — In a 2018 interview, Malley criticized U.S. aid to the Syrian opposition and ... in Syria: the Islamic State and Iran's threat to Israel.
10 Problems With Biden's Foreign Policy—and One Solution
https://www.codepink.org › 10_problems_with_bidens...
1. Failing to quickly rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement. The Biden administration's failure to immediately rejoin the JCPOA, as Bernie Sanders promised to do on
CONTENTS IRAN NEWSLETTER #31, AUGUST 23, 2019 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/08/iran-newsletter-31-august-23-2019.html
Kathy Kelly. “Take Heed & Seek Peace,” The Catholic Worker
The Daily Kos, We’ve Seen This Before with Iraq
Hasan, The Intercept, US Mainstream Media Lies About Iran
The Intercept Podcast, John Bolton’s War
Negin Farsad. “Why Iran Is [NOT] Our Enemy.” The Progressive
Thalif Deen. Sanctions Will Undermine 1947 US Treaty with UN. Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency
END IRAN ANTHOLOGY #32