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Elijah J. Magnier — Iran and Trump on the edge of the abyss

Good explanation of really went down.Elijah J. Magnier — Middle East PoliticsIran and Trump on the edge of the abyss Elijah J. MagnierSee alsoStrategic Culture FoundationIran goes for “maximum counter-pressure” Pepe EscobarAlsoGold, Goats 'N GunsWho Survives the Iran Counter-Offensive? Tom LuongoAlsoIndia PunchlineUS credibility dented in Iran standoff M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign ServiceAlsoMoon of AlabamaWhite House Pushes 'Trump Pulled Back' Story - He...

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This Is How The U.S. Plans To Cripple Iran’s Economy — Simon Watkins

With sanctions re-imposed on Iran’s oil exports last year and recently applied in part to its petrochemicals exports as well, the U.S. is now looking to roll out the next phase of its sanctions plan against the Islamic Republic. This is to gradually employ increasingly tight sanctions on Iran’s gas sector, whilst ensuring that Europe’s mechanism for enabling ongoing business with Iran does not succeed. These policies taken together are aimed at limiting Iran’s energy export revenues to no...

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Declassified: The Sino-Russian Masterplan To End U.S. Dominance In Middle East — Yossef Bodansky,

Longish and detailed American view.Oil PriceDeclassified: The Sino-Russian Masterplan To End U.S. Dominance In Middle East Yossef Bodansky, the Director of Research at the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA) and Senior Editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs publications (including the Global Information System: GIS), was, for more than a decade, the Director of the US House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare

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Iran at the center of the Eurasian riddle — Pepe Escobar

Iran is at the heart of the BRI-SCO-EAEU integration road map – the nuts and bolts of Eurasian integration. Russia and China cannot allow Iran to be strangled. Iran boasts fabulous energy reserves, a huge internal market, and is a frontline state fighting complex networks of opium, weapons and jihadi smuggling – all key concerns for SCO member states.... The article is about much more than Iran.Iran is a a key piece in Eurasian integration. This is a major reaons that US strategist have...

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Moon of AlabamaIran To Exceed Some Nuclear Deal Limits - EU Under Pressure To Fulfill Its Commitments b RTUS planning ‘tactical assault’ on Iran in response to 'tanker attack' — report RTTrump not in control of Iran policy, should perhaps fire Bolton – EU foreign policy chief’s adviser

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Trump offered to suspend sanctions while negotiating with Iran, Khamenei rejected the offer: more attacks expected Elijah J. Magnier

Trump's negotiating strategy with Iran is not working as planned. Instead of being forced into submission by sanctions, Iran has concluded that it is in its interest to go to war if need be rather than to submitt. Since this would driving the price of oil up to level that would threaten the collapse of the global economy, Iran appears to be gaming the risk of war on the assumption that POTUS would not be willing to go there.Trump often resorts to the "crazy person" tactic in negotiation....

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Elijah J. Magnier — Iran’s Leader of the Revolution recommends four steps for confronting the US

Backgrounder. Here is a bit of background for the backgrounder provided by Elijah J. Magnier. Iran's Leader of the Revolution is Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Born in 1939, he was President of Iran from 1981until 1989, when succeeded Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini.  In addition to being the supreme theocrat, the Grand Ayatollah is also a good strategist, with a comprehensive vision for Iran Most Iranians are Shi'ite, a sect that comprises about 10%...

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PEPE ESCOBAR — Iran Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards

There’s one thing the no-holds-barred U.S. economic war against Iran has managed to achieve: internal unity in the Islamic Republic. Team Rouhani’s initial aim for the JCPOA was to open up to Western trade (trade with Asia was always on) and somewhat curtail the power of the IRGC, or Revolutionary Guards, which control vast sectors of the Iranian economy.Washington’s economic war proved instead the IRGC was right all along, echoing the finely-tuned geopolitical sentiment of Supreme Leader...

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