Category: Middle East
Pompeo ‘Confident’ Other Nations Will Join Arab-Israeli Peace Deal
This fall, the US brokered normalisation-of-relations deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, offering Abu Dhabi lucrative weapons contracts, and promising Khartoum that Washington would lift sanctions and the ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ designation against the Northeast African nation. …
Forbidden Weapons and Israeli War Crimes
In the period 2008-2014, Zionist settler colonialists launched three aggressive wars against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip: (1) Dec 2008-Jan 2009, (2) 14 Nov 2012, and (3) July-August 2014. During these aggressive wars, the Israeli military used a number of American-made forbidden weapons: White Phosphorus, GBU-39 Shells, DIME bombs, Flechette Shells, Vacuum bombs, and Scandium 64 Aerosol. …
Iran Touts ‘Max Failure’ of US’s ‘Max Pressure’ Strategy as Trump Triples Down on Sanctions
Washington imposed a new round of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, targeting multiple persons and dozens of entities including a charity linked to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged to slap more sanctions on Iran “in the coming weeks and months.” …