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Mar 02 2026 
Shanghai Cooperation Organization regarding the Situation around the Islamic Republic of Iran
Statement (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2083558/) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization regarding the Situation around the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO) express serious concern over the developments in the Middle East and the military strikes on the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The SCO Member States consider the use of force… Continue reading
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Mar 02 2026 
Alastair Crooke : The end to deceptive Trumpian diplomacy
With the demise of diplomacy, the conflict has moved from the realm of strategic calculus and realism into one of psychological conditioning.
Strategic Culture
Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) – for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators – confirmed the essential impasse. The U.S. demands presented to Iran were:
The complete dismantling of the Fordow,… Continue reading
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Mar 02 2026 
Iran – Two Allies from Inferno Attack Iran – Possible Consequences
By Peter Koenig
On Saturday, 28 February 2026, President Trump confirmed on his Truth Social platform that Washington has launched a “major combat operations in Iran” to eliminate “imminent threats” and “defend the American people.” It is called “Epic Fury”, and War Minister, Pete Hegseth said, it will last for a long time.
President Trump added that Iran had previously rejected demands… Continue reading
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Mar 02 2026 
Brian Berletic : Trump’s Bizarre Cope Speech on Iran as Conflict Continues into Day 3
Trump in his most recent speech first claims Iran’s leadership is dead, its military command is gone, and remaining forces seek to surrender…
… but then demands Iran’s military to surrender and warns more US military personnel will die because he obviously was lying about his previous claims.
Yes, top Iranian military and political leaders were killed,… Continue reading
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Mar 01 2026 
IMPORTANT REPOST! Iran: Guardian at the Gate of Sovereign Nations
By Tariq Marzbaan and Nora Hoppe – Al Mayadeen English
Iran’s power lies not only in military capacity but in a deep civilisational continuity that makes it the principal bulwark against imperial domination and a unipolar world order.
Guardian at the Gate
Iran stands as the guardian at the gate – a phrase echoing the majestic “Gate of… Continue reading
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Mar 01 2026 
War on Iran
Iranian war updates sticky thread.
Mar 6
Panic much? U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, says they might temporarily lift sanctions on Russian oil exports to compensate for the situation in the Persian Gulf
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Controlling airspace, US Style: The U.S. is “well on track to control Iranian airspace.” said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt to reporters. She added… Continue reading
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Feb 26 2026 
Historical US Failures Against Iran: How America Keeps Losing to the “Lesser” Enemy
For decades, Washington has acted as if its military power is unstoppable. However, several US administrations learned the hard way that Iran doesn’t fight back according to plan.
🔸Operation Eagle Claw (1980) was meant to rescue hostages. Instead, eight helicopters met mechanical failure in a sandstorm, leading to a fiery collision at Desert One that killed… Continue reading
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Feb 22 2026 
Iran: Moving on, or not?
Yesterday Larry Johnson ended his analysis like this: “If you’re on the east coast of the United States, you will know by 4pm whether Trump has decided to start World War III.”
Trump remained in the White House this weekend, reportedly for discussions with his various warmongers.
We ended yesterday with a new US demand. They would… Continue reading
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Feb 21 2026 
Israel’s End Game: Can Israel Survive Its Policies? w/ Miko Peled
Produced by Jadaliyya and Gaza in Context Project, Cosponsored by Mondoweiss www.PalestineInContext.org “Israel’s End Game” is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances might enable or constrain those policies.
We ask our guests whether or how internal divisions within Israel… Continue reading
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Feb 21 2026 
Submissions by Marwa Osman
https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/5233
Since the BoP meeting, Israel has done what it always does – collective punitive actions. They have shot, shot with missiles, droned, killed and created violent mayhem right across the Region. Lebanon was attacked with gusto. Marwa talks about this and about the region. Besides the horror, you may be surprised at what she says… Continue reading
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Feb 20 2026 
Professor Marandi Series: Demystifying Iran
In this episode of Demystifying Iran, Professor Mohammad Marandi examines the massive rallies on February 11, 2026, in #Tehran, where demonstrators set fire to a horned, bull-headed statue called “Baal,” carved with the “so-called Star of David.”
But when you see that statue burning… what were the three arguments the organizers were making? … Continue reading
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Feb 19 2026 
Iran: The Consensus – Notes
From Moon of Alabama to Sonar 21 to most commentators that we know, the consensus is that a war on Iran is imminent. Larry at Sonar 21 discusses how the US is currently shaping the operational environment through intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, information operations, civil affairs, psychological operations, and other preparatory actions—often in denied or politically… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Israel’s Death Calls
Marwa Osman
Journalist Radwan Mortada wrote:
“When reality is harsher than fiction.
Yesterday, in the town of Tallouseh, the martyr Ahmad Termos (62) was on a family visit. He was sitting with his wife in her brother’s house. The sound of a drone overhead, then another. He had barely stepped inside to sit when his phone rang. Ahmad… Continue reading
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Feb 18 2026 
Will Schryver: Iran
Will Schryver
@imetatroninkNow Or Never
The US has now positioned in the Middle East a formidable array of assets to prosecute an air campaign against Iran.
In addition to what has already been delivered, CSG-12 (USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78) is en route. But it is very unlikely it can arrive on station in the eastern Mediterranean and… Continue reading
