For a video presentation, please click here: Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdlMklTbjNQ Background Information: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s recent comments regarding the current military power of his movement, in light of regular media reports…
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In his final address to Afghanistan’s parliament Saturday, President Hamid Karzai told the United States its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which…
The Sins of Iran I’m sorry. We DO have to bomb Iran. Our hands are tied. Here’s why: The Iran Oil Bourse will begin trading oil in non-dollars starting March 20; Iranians…
France is emerging as the new partner-in-crime in support of America’s imperialist machinations across the globe. Up until recently, that thuggish role was filled by British in what was euphemistically referred to as the “special Anglo-American relation”. Now the French are taking over from the British as the “oldest ally.” French leader Francois Hollande is currently on a three-day visit to the US, greeted by President Barack Obama with full military honors and a 21-gun salute. “France and US enjoy renewed alliance,” reports the Washington Post. The American president has gone out of his way to emphasize historical links between the two countries, with the opening visit for the two leaders taking place at Thomas Jefferson’s estate in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A high-ranking US official says 75,000 to 115,000 militants, organized in 1500 groups, are fighting the Syrian government. A video presentation from Press TV, please click here: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/02/12/350314/115k-militants-fighting-syria-govt/ According to James Clapper,…
Iran’s Armed Forces chief of staff has dismissed US officials’ threats of military action against Iran as “political bluff”, saying the Islamic Republic is ready for the “decisive” battle against the US and Israel. “We are ready for the decisive war with the US and the Zionist regime [of Israel],” said Major General Hassan Firouzabadi on Wednesday.
Iran has been planning for such a battle for years by carrying out various drills, he said, stressing that Iran’s Armed Forces are prepared to fend off any military aggression. The top commander warned that in case of aggression against Iran, all the US and Israeli interests will be targeted, “We warn that if our forces come under attack from any territory, we will hit all the positions which belong to that [territory],” Firouzabadi said.
International, regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree only on two denominators, namely…
In the Darkness of Dick Cheney The Smile of Secret Power By Mark Danner [This essay appears in the March 6th issue of the New York Review of Books and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind…
On May 2nd, 2011, US President Barack H. Obama announces to the world that Osama Bin-Laden had been killed by US Navy Seals (Seal Team Six) in an special operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan “Good evening….
TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Iranian Navy commanders announced on Saturday that the country has sent several fleets of warships to the US maritime borders. “The Iranian Army’s naval fleets have already started their voyage…