Regional Round-up from Drop Site News Iran is pushing a seven-day roadmap to end the war with the U.S., as Iranian officials held meetings with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The plan, which Tehran said was transmitted via mediators, calls for an end to hostilities on all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon, the release of at least $12 billion in frozen [...]
The Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s [...]
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the US and Iran extended the ceasefire between them for 60 days, during which time they agreed to try to negotiate the details of a permanent peace agreement. If the US can make peace with Iran, this could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for [...]
By Nicolas J. S. Davies On May 24, Iran rejected Pres. Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the two sides are still very far apart on nuclear enrichment, on control of the Strait of Hormuz, on peace in Palestine and Lebanon, and on lifting US sanctions, paying war reparations and Iran’s $100 billion in frozen assets. Iran’s conditions for a peace [...]
Washington’s war on Iran has exposed the limits of US power, accelerated the decline of the petrodollar system, and pushed the world toward a systemic rupture. https://thecradle.co/articles/turkish-naval-strategist-warns-us-blockade-risks-global-economic-collapse Last year, retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz warned The Cradle that NATO had become a hollow alliance and that Turkiye's future lay in a sovereign Eurasian alignment. Today, as Washington-backed escalation against Iran spirals into a global economic and military crisis, his warnings appear less [...]
© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-war-before-the-war/ As bombs explode and wreak havoc across the Middle East, one wonders, What will come of this? This question arises because of events that happened over 70 years ago. 1953, to be exact, when spies from the CIA and British intelligence hatched a plan to remove Iran's democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, removed from power because he supported the nationalization of his country's vast oil reserves. The [...]
Yassamine Mather addressing the Cork (Ireland) Palestine Solidarity Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhQMMeyUrrQ Yassamine Mather is an Iranian political activist, who was involved in the 1979 events in Iran and who has continued her struggle throughout her life. She's also an academic and involved in the school for Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford or the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford. She writes very regularly on the subject of Iran and the Middle [...]
The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that few [...]
by Robert Inlakesh https://english.almayadeen.net [Excerpts] If it were easy to launch a regime change operation against Iran, it would have been carried out many years ago. While it is impossible to predict precisely what the war on the Islamic Republic of Iran and its regional allies will result in, the ability to win the regional conflict is clear. The only thing driving this attack is sheer Israeli arrogance, as there is no [...]
By Arthur Gonzalez , Heraldo Cubano Many people have forgotten and others are unaware of the background of the current protests that have been taking place for days in Iran, because the news disseminated by Western media distorts reality and hides the truth. The protests began in Tehran's Grand Bazaar for economic reasons, but transformed into political demands against the government. Implausibly some of those now protesting are cheering Shah Reza Pahlavi, [...]
globalsouth.co Interview with Mohsen Rezaei, former IRGC Commander-in-Chief Interview with Mohsen Rezaei, former IRGC Commander-in-Chief, on June 16, 2025, during the third day of the Iran-Israel War. Translated by lecridespeuples for Resistance News Unfiltered: Resistance News Unfiltered Mohsen Rezaei is an Iranian politician, military commander, and economist. He is best known for serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from 1981 to 1997. Appointed at the age of 27, [...]
G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas [Excerpts] By Pepe Escobar / The Cradle The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geo-politically and geo-economically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. With Rio providing the ultimately gorgeous set, at the very least, tempers at the renovated Museum of Modern Art, the G20 venue with the Sugarloaf in the background, [...]
