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Driving Iran into the arms of China, just like Russia and increasingly Turkey, hastening de-dollarization and creating a wider split between the East and West, and Global North and Global South.Another brilliant move. NOT.Zero HedgeUS Moves To Cut Off Iran From Global Economy Tyler DurdenSee also at ZHWhat could go wrong?Leaked Doc Reveals White House Planning "Regime Change" In Iran

Analysis of the implications of oil sanctions, including war.Oil PriceHow The World’s Oil Powers Will Seize The Iran Deal Cyril WiddershovenAlso at Oil Price Untangling Russia’s economy from the U.S. dollar dependence is one of Putin’s goals, local outlet Sputnik reports. “We used to behave naïvely, but now we see that the WTO [the World Trade organization] rules are all too often broken, the restrictions are imposed for political reasons, which they call sanctions. Plus more and more of...

CENTCOM commander, Gen. Joseph Votel, went straight to the heart of the matter when he told the US House Armed Services Committee in February that “both Russia and China are cultivating multidimensional ties to Iran … Lifting UN sanctions under the joint comprehensive plan of action opens [the] path for Iran to resume application to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”In a nutshell, this betrays the entire project which is to thwart the Eurasia integration process, which features Russia...

US sanctions on Iran are poised to drastically cut the profit margins of Indian oil companies that have already committed huge future imports. Moreover, India cannot afford to turn its back on its engagements with Iran, considering the recent headway made by China in enhancing ties with the oil-rich country, according to analysts. Sputnik InternationalUS Sanctions on Iran Puts India in Catch-22 Situation

In short, if the US fails to prevent Europe and Asia’s burgeoning trade with Iran – and I think they will fail – this moment will be seen by historians as a key marker in US decline as a world power. Trump & Co. (GOP) betting the farm? The ROW is opposed and so are a majority domestically.Craig Murray BlogTrump’s Act of American Hubris Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee See also World Economic ForumThis is what you need to...

Analysis. "b" doesn't mention it, but all analysis needs to focus on the big picture, in which China is the only adversary that the US perceives as an actual threat to permanent US global hegemony. Russia is just a sideshow in this.  Therefore, every analysis should ask what US policy and actions imply with respect to China.  An obvious economic goal of the US is to be able to shut down the export of energy to China. This is an overarching aspect of what's up in the Middle East and...

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement, assuring that the EU would maintain the Iran nuclear deal, calling it the best way to avoid nuclear proliferation.It begins. Washington loses allies on Iran policy.Defend Democracy PressFrance, UK, Germany to Stick to Iran Deal Irrespective of US Decision

Canadian analyst, Stephen Gowan’s new book, ‘Washington’s Long War on Syria‘, reveals how the US colluded with The Muslim Brotherhood – the ideological precursor to Al Qaeda and ISIS – to destroy Ba’ath Arab Socialism in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Libya, and install permanent free-trade zones that serve US interests across The Middle East. From Syria, to Iraq, Iran to Libya, our understandings of the long-wars in the Middle-East as moral, humanitarian interventions designed to democratise and...

Important backgrounder. Asia Times From Ankara to Moscow, Eurasia integration is on the move Pepe Escobar

So what are these horrendous people being charged with? Stealing unreleased scripts of Game of Thrones and a bunch of academic articles. I am not making this up. Marginal RevolutionIranian “CyberAttack” Threatens Elsevier Not USAAlex Tabarrok | Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center