The city of Mashad is hardly known in the Western world, despite being the most visited religious site in Islam. Its location in the far North East corner of Iran, across the great central desert, makes it a natural place of pilgrimage for Shia muslims, both from Iran and Iraq, and from Afghanistan and Pakistan… Continue reading Birth and Rebirth in Mashad
Tag: Western media lies
Revered – or Reviled?
On the first day of the funeral for Iran’s martyred spiritual leader, when tens of millions of Iranians came to ‘pay their respects’ at the Grand Mosalla mosque in Tehran, SBS’ reporter Liz Maddox had this to say: ..Ayatollah Khamenei, killed in the opening salvo of the US-israeli attack in February, reviled by many Iranians… Continue reading Revered – or Reviled?
Kiev’s Double Act
It isn’t the first time that the Kiev regime has staged a false flag ‘Russian attack’ timed strategically to drive support for NATO’s war on Russia – but possibly the most devious and dirty. Zelensky himself described the double act: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian drone strike that damaged Kyiv’s historic 11th-century Dormition… Continue reading Kiev’s Double Act
Drone-strike Trickery in the Gulf
On June 4th, Sydney time, Al Jazeera showed the video below of damage to Kuwait International Airport, from which the leading photo is taken. What appears to be a recently fired interceptor rocket is shown being hosed down in a car park near the terminal, at some time during the previous night. Al Jazeera’s broadcast… Continue reading Drone-strike Trickery in the Gulf
RT talks to Tony Kevin on Australian Russophobia.
In an act of calculated and callous bastardry on the night of May 21st, Ukrainian soldiers sent 16 long distance drones in three waves towards the central city of Starobelsk in the Lugansk Peoples Republic, hitting and destroying a student dormitory of the Lugansk Professional College, where over 80 teenagers were sleeping. The successive strikes… Continue reading RT talks to Tony Kevin on Australian Russophobia.
Trump’s Kiss of Death
In what appears to have been a final effort to ensure that the comatose ‘peace agreement’ with Iran will never regain consciousness, President Trump just added a game-changing new condition to the US demand list: in order to sign onto the proposed regional peace agreement to end the war on Iran, Arab states supporting the… Continue reading Trump’s Kiss of Death
Persian Gulf; Signing Up or Signing Out.
As I wrote in “Persian Gulf; Departure Point”, no further negotiations or mutual agreements can or will be made between Iran and its opponents. The constant flow of reports on ‘progress’ in talks and even suggestions that an agreement is close bear no relation to the reality, and is being generated by individuals and groups… Continue reading Persian Gulf; Signing Up or Signing Out.
BBC misses the Bridge; Bushra Sheikh finds it.
A month ago I speculated on the possible consequences of the US bombing of the Karaj bridge, an act of international vandalism and spite which could only be described as a war crime, given the bridge was unfinished and with no military significance. While we wait to see if ‘hostilities resume’ – or when they… Continue reading BBC misses the Bridge; Bushra Sheikh finds it.
An Open and Shut Case
In the end it has come down to this – an inability in the American mind to comprehend the most basic of truths about ‘the other’ – being that its assumed exceptionalism amounts to nothing in the mind of Iranians. The leaders of the hegemon simply cannot accept that their presence in W Asia is… Continue reading An Open and Shut Case
The Persian Gulf – Left Bank.
In a moment of madness, desperation or possibly ignorance, and at 88 minutes before Donald Trump’s ‘DEAD-line’ for the destruction of Iranian civilisation, the freshly resurrected Golden King of America suddenly discovered Iran’s grand plan for an end to war in West Asia. Thanks to the huge tension built up by his Hollywood-style countdown, the… Continue reading The Persian Gulf – Left Bank.