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Apr 27 2025 
America Cannot Be Trusted: Prof. Marandi on Iran-U.S. Nuclear Talks
Professor Mohammad Marandi joins TMJ News for an in-depth analysis on the current ongoing Iran–U.S. nuclear negotiations. As a former advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiations team, he offers an insider look into Iran’s present position as a regional power and a nation that is refusing to bargain its national sovereignty at the negotiating table. He… Continue reading
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Apr 27 2025 
Three Russian sailors from the crew of an oil tanker were injured in the US strikes on the Yemeni port of Ras Isa
This is serious. A mistake could dump us into a broader war in a hot minute. I’m thinking the US should stop its shooting because it does not know what it is shooting at.
DUBAI, April 27. /TASS/. Three Russian sailors from the crew of an oil tanker were injured in the US strikes on… Continue reading
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Apr 27 2025 
The War & Genocide Thread
Its renamed now, this thread. I’ve been hesitating for a while to rename this, but it is time. We added India and Pakistan, and they’ve now fallen off the list yet, they are simmering. I expect regional conflagrations to continue breaking out as fast as the India/Pakistan issue broke out and already said this middle… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2025 
Emptying Gaza: Norman Finkelstein & Chris Hedges
Is it so that we have to start accepting that nothing will now save Gaza? This is a very disturbing presentation by Norm.
Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 
Iran: a strategic mistake in the making?
With thanks to Quantum Bird
Iran’s history is rich and complex. From the days of the glorious Persian Empire to today’s Islamic Republic, Iran has experienced all kinds of geopolitical circumstances, including being, for a period, a colony of the Western powers. Like any former colony that has liberated itself through a popular revolution, Iran has its… Continue reading
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Apr 21 2025 
The Houthis & Yemen: A History (and brought forward from a year ago)
Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education.
More versions of the podcast at:
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An eloquent short historical profile of the Ansarullah movement by a fair critic from south Yemen. She is from Aden, the traditional rival… Continue reading
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Apr 20 2025 
From Gaza to the Red Sea: Helen Lackner on Yemen’s Civil War, Houthis, U.S. Strikes & Palestine Link
A Yemen expert.
There may be differences of opinion but we have a set of facts with reliable maps right at the outset, who is who, who controls what and in what percentages and how Yemen came to be. The religious and sectarian aspects are discussed early on and then left alone.Helen Lackner Biography and
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Apr 18 2025 
A quite believable tale: Yemen Rules!
In terms of Chinese and North Koreans being in the back and in planning and operating rooms in Russia to take part in the SMO (in a training capacity if you like), I have no qualms to accept. But, they are not fighting in the front ranks.
In terms of Yemen, we have hints but nothing… Continue reading
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Apr 16 2025 
April 14, 2025: Norman Finkelstein on Gaza Genocide
American political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein, though the son of Polish Holocaust survivors, has never been afraid to speak his mind about Israel. At a February 2025 event sponsored by CAIR Florida (the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations), Finkelstein delivered fiery comments about Israel’s in-your-face brand of genocide:
“It’s absolutely mind-numbing. One… Continue reading
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Apr 14 2025 
Escalating wars: Middle-East,West Asia, Yemen, into Africa, Somalia/
Current local time Jerusalem: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/israel/jerusalem
Previous thread: https://sovereignista.com/2025/03/19/the-middle-east-west-asia-wars-are-escalating/
Apr 26
Israeli terror Army Alarmed by Shift in Resistance Tactics in Gaza:
• Israeli media and the army have reported a clear change in the combat tactics of Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip.
• Amir Bohbot, a military analyst for the Hebrew-language site Walla, wrote that… Continue reading
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Apr 12 2025 
Mohammad Marandi: U.S. & Iran Talks Begin — But Doubts Loom Large
Prof Marandi with Nima
The US privately put aside its tough public stance by accepting indirect talks, limited to sanctions and nuclear issues.
The US also accepted the indirect negotiations to be held in Oman, Iran’s preferred location.
Still there’s a very long road ahead.
The Iranian comments are: Iran-US negotiations in Omani capital Muscat has… Continue reading
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Apr 10 2025 
Francesca Albanese: There is not much time left to save the Palestinian people
Reported by PressTV
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on Palestine has warned that there is “not much time left” to save the Palestinian people as Israel continues its relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip and its ongoing oppression in the West Bank.
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, speaking at a two-day conference in Pantin, a… Continue reading
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Apr 08 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Trump Admits Yemen sank US Warships, Iran & Putin deepen War Preparations
Pepe Escobar & Danny Haiphong
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar returns from Yemen for an update on Trump’s losing war on Yemen and what it says about US escalations with Iran. Is Trump bluffing, or should Putin, China, and Iran and the multipolar world be on high alert for the unthinkable? This stream is a… Continue reading
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Apr 08 2025 
Alastair Crooke : Trump Demands the Impossible from Iran
With Judge Nap.
This is a must listen interview as Alastair Crooke exposes the demands from the US to Iran, and it is not only to reduce nuclear activities. Yesterday in the Trump/Netanyahu public discussions (can one even call them discussions, or do we call them publicly announced kill plans?) Netanyahu proposed for Iran, the… Continue reading
