Middle East
Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets
Since the Assad dictatorship’s fall, economic recovery has lagged while reconstruction is benefiting the rich. In response, there has been a surge in protest, reports Joseph Daher.
Iran’s revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule
Hossam el-Hamalawy revisits Iran’s revolution through the social forces that drove it, explaining its outcome was not historically inevitable.
Iran war shows dramatic decline of US imperialism
Notwithstanding all the death and destruction meted out by the US-Israeli aggressors, they have failed to achieve any sort of victory over Iran, writes Dave Holmes.
The Western media prefers to promote those who back the monarchy, the regime or Western imperialism. For the fight against these evils to succeed, we must support the invisible majority of Iranians who reject all these powers. writes Nasrin Parvaz.
The myth of the ‘miscalculation’: Why the war on Iran was no accident
The message of the NYT’s report, “How Trump Took U.S to War with Iran,” is clear: this war could have been avoided if better judgement prevailed. Ali Keshtkar says this framing carries a fundamental problem.
No to war, no to distortion: A critique of ‘limitless unity’ within the anti-Iran war movement
Mitra Mahmoudi discusses the dangers of blurring political boundaries between the anti-war movement and Islamic Republic supporters in the name of “broad unity”.
Opposing Western intervention and the Iranian regime
Samira Mohyeddin challenges dominant assumptions about Iran, questions the logic of external intervention, and reflects on the difficulties of sustaining a principled anti-war position in an increasingly polarized environment.
Two tactics in the anti-Iran war movement
Ali Keshtkar asks: how can Iranian socialists best oppose a war being waged against a regime they are in political struggle against?
Lebanon and Hezbollah in the wake of empire: The expanding impact of the war on Iran
Joseph Daher analyzes the expansion of the US-Israel war into Lebanon, its impact on that country and on Iran’s ally Hezbollah.
Justice for the Middle East is also about climate
Adam Hanieh discusses how accurate the claim “all wars are fought for oil” truly is and what developments we might expect in the Middle East in the future.
Iran: Neither intervention nor trivialization
Sanaz Azimipour and Mahtab Mahboub on why we need to oppose both imperial aggression and the Iranian regime.
Against the grim backdrop of US-Israeli imperialist aggression, Shora Esmailian speaks about Iranian society, its complexity, aspirations, uprisings, and their repression by the regime.
