Iran

On 6 March, after only a week of war, Trump wrote that “there will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” [his emphasis]. Three

Iran war

After five weeks of all-out war on Iran and seven weeks of a very fragile ceasefire, yet another round of talks is taking place between the US and Iran. Whether

The devastation caused by US imperialism’s war on Iran has been widely documented. The independent Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency estimates that as many as 3,636 have been killed

Zelensky

The world looked on in horror when the Trump regime, backed by the genocidal murderer Benjamin Netanyahu, inflicted “Operation Epic Fury” on Iran at the end of February. The war

Strait of Hormuz

On 19 April, Trump posted on Truth Social declaring “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY,” threatening to end the ceasefire and carry out wide-ranging attacks on Iranian infrastructure. Two days later—on

HMS Middleton is pictured transiting the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Towards a fragile deal or an escalating war? With 24 hours left of the ‘ceasefire’ with Iran, Trump is zigzagging between announcing that he is “very close to a fair

No Kings protest against Trump. Sign reads: "we don't want war"

Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific reality, Washington backed down. Trump

“Trump is losing the war in Iran”. This headline from Foreign Policy magazine on 30 March sums up a growing consensus regarding the war as it enters its second month.

Iran 1979

Iran has been at the centre of global events continuously for more than a century. Imperialist powers dominated the entire period up to the revolution in 1979, treating Iran as

In its third week, the US-Israel war on Iran is not going as Donald Trump wished, to put it mildly. What Trump envisioned as a demonstration of strength and another

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable” wrote Howard Zinn about the US bombing of Tripoli in

Lives, energy, ecology and the world economy all under attack US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day