December 7, 2019 – 7:10 am
This is one of those editorial pieces where one would say “how would they have written this about Barack Obama?” Iran’s repression of protests was an answer to the Trump administration THE TRUMP administration has been citing a massive wave of protests in Iran as evidence that its “maximum pressure” strategy against the Islamic republic […]
November 23, 2019 – 7:09 am
It’s a really, really good idea to turn the Internet here in the U.S. into a public utility with massive federal (and some states are trying to pass their own) control via Net Neutrality, right? Also, somehow Trump is being blamed ‘Tool of repression’: Iran and regimes from Ethiopia to Venezuela limit Internet, go dark […]
August 28, 2019 – 7:44 am
Can you guess what is ominous? Once you see the headline, you’re probably going to think that this Editorial is going to be Trump Derangement Syndrome. Nope The hype of possible U.S.-Iran talks obscured something much more ominous A FRENCH attempt to jump-start talks between the United States and Iran got plenty of attention over […]
June 14, 2019 – 6:45 am
See, the problem according to CNN’s Stephen Collinson is not that the Iranians attacked tankers, but that Trump and his people are seizing US seizes on tanker attacks to up the stakes with Iran When a US Secretary of State is as swift and unequivocal as Mike Pompeo was in blaming Iran for brazen attacks on two […]
April 9, 2019 – 6:48 am
Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, particularly against Israel (which Democrats hate) and America (which Democrats hate). Democrats have to back Iran, after Obama did the horrendous Iran deal, and because they have a kneejerk reaction to oppose everything Trump Trump designates elite Iranian military force as a terrorist organization President Donald […]
August 27, 2018 – 8:33 am
This takes a big pair of jihadi cajones to make this claim, and they dug seriously deep to find their reasoning (The Hill) Iran on Monday asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to compel the U.S. to lift recently imposed sanctions, arguing the penalties violate an obscure treaty between the two countries. Reuters reported that […]
July 23, 2018 – 7:04 am
Obama would have bowed to Iran and given them more money Trump’s tweet to Iran cannot bully the west away from making peace Wow. Social media really is transforming the art of diplomacy. Donald Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has called the rulers of Iran a “mafia more than a government”. They are a bunch of […]
May 22, 2018 – 3:32 pm
Few countries seem to be actually doing something to uphold their commitments, and others just want their redistributed money (via Watts Up With That?) Is Iran pulling out of Paris Agreement? Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif signed the Paris Agreement on climate change during a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York, April […]
May 11, 2018 – 6:54 am
Remember how the media said the same thing about Obama while he slapped sanctions on Syria and made all sorts of threats himself and had his people do the same at the U.M.? Oh, wait. Here’s NY Times editorial cartoonist with his hot take President Trump’s decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal and his […]
May 8, 2018 – 7:41 am
Look, as stated many, many times, the Iran deal is a bad deal. America really gets little out of it. It is a one sided deal, brokered by people who do not understand how to conduct a win-win negotiation. So, what will happen? Here’s the Washington Post front page headline and sub-head blurb Trump expected […]