By RAY McGOVERN - February 26-28, 2010

The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah...which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel...Jundullah is one of several groups that have been conducting bombings and other violent attacks against Iran’s Islamic regime with the aim of knocking it off balance.

By Robert Fisk - 21 January 2010

...[H]ere's the big question[:]...If Israel ignores Obama and attacks Iran's nuclear sites...the Hizbollah could fire rockets into Israel, perhaps even revealing its new anti-aircraft missile capacity. Hamas might join in from Gaza. Hamas is a tin-pot outfit; the Hizbollah is not. An Israeli attack on Iran will unleash Iranian military power against America. But part of that power is Hizbollah in Lebanon. This is serious business.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - December 30, 2009

It could not be made any clearer that, as with the US invasion of Iraq, a military attack on Iran has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. An “Iranian nuke” is just another canard behind which hides an undeclared agenda...The US wants war with Iran in order to expand US world hegemony.

Protest against the imprisonment of five leaders of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company Workers’ Syndicate!

By John Pilger - October 15, 2009

Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control...[T]he US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic...Like Bush's America, Obama's America is run by some very dangerous people...We have a right to be warned. When will those paid to keep the record straight do their job?

Oil! It all comes down to controlling the global sales of oil in US dollars as explained in the following video.

By John Pilger - October 01, 2009

...[P]lanted stories in the British and US media helped George Bush and Tony Blair to launch an illegal invasion [of Iraq]...Something similar is happening over Iran...The official jargon for this kind of propaganda is "psy-ops", the military term for psychological operations...[I]t has become a critical component of a diplomatic and military campaign to blockade, isolate and weaken Iran by hyping its "nuclear threat": a phrase now used incessantly by Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, and parroted by the BBC and other broadcasters as objective news. And it is fake.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Counterpunch

The president of the United States and his European puppets are doing what they do best--lying through their teeth. The US “mainstream media” repeats the lies as if they were facts. The US “media” is again making itself an accomplice to wars based on fabrications...As there is no legal basis for action against Iran, the Obama regime is creating another hoax, like the non-existent “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.” The hoax is that a facility...is a secret facility for making nuclear weapons.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - September 28, 2009

This is “freedom and democracy” at work. The leaders of the G-20 countries, which account for 85% of the world’s income, cannot meet in an American city without 12,000 cops outfitted like the emperor’s storm troopers in Star Wars. And the US government complains about Iran.

By Anthony DiMaggio - September 26, 2009

Concern over a nuclear Iran is understandable for those who are committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, and for those who worry about the danger that nuclear proliferation poses for human survival. It should be noted, however, that the Obama administration does not share those concerns. U.S. officials have always been preoccupied with how to prohibit enemy states from developing these weapons, while ensuring maximum U.S. and allied maneuverability in keeping such weapons, and even in using them when deemed necessary.

By LEE SUSTAR and S. SEPEHRI - September 4-6, 2009

The pro-democracy movement among students, the underground unions, and the street protesters that emerged in recent weeks all together have the potential to interact to create a new movement for democracy and revolutionary change. The international left must do all it can to aid that struggle.

By Faramarz Dadvar - Z Magazine

In Iran, a corrupt and theocratic regime has made life extremely difficult for workers, the poor, and for the great majority of the country's citizens. Almost 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line; the unemployment rate is about 20 percent, more than 1,500 factories have closed, and inflation runs around 30 percent...

Friday 31 July 2009 - The Guardian

Of the government of the Islamic Republic, we request that in view of the distrust on the part of a great segment of the country's population, it form an independent truth and national reconciliation commission...such that it can gain the trust of the people of Iran and find a reasonable solution for the conflict...Of western governments, we request that they cease any and all interference in Iranian affairs and end all their illegitimate economic, political and military pressures aimed at the internal destabilisation of Iran.

By PATRICK COCKBURN - August 4, 2009

The abduction of the British computer expert Peter Moore and his four bodyguards was carried out partly in revenge for deadly bomb attacks in south-west Iran which Iranian officials blamed on Britain, according to a well-placed source in Baghdad.

By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson - Electric Politics

There are many problems with the Campaign for Peace and Democracy's "Question & Answer on the Iran Crisis"...The CPD adopted this format, it tells us, because "some on the left...have questioned the legitimacy of and the need for solidarity with the anti-Ahmadinejad movement"...We believe...that the CPD's 13 questions-and-answers do little to clarify issues related to Iran's June 12 presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath, and even less to help leftists...decide how they should respond to them.