The Iran-Iraq war, which would last for eight years and claim the lives of about a million people, began with an Iraqi invasion of Iran, on this day, September 22nd, 1980. The pretext for the invasion was the revolution in Iran, which had toppled the Shah and replaced him with a Shiite Islamic dictatorship. Saddam […]
Iran went through a baby boom in the 1980s. This was in the aftermath of the revolution in 1979 and while the country was in the midst of a war that would leave at least a third of a million of its people dead. Families were encouraged to strengthen Iran by producing “soldiers for Islam” […]
Amidst the news of lockdowns, rising numbers of deaths, and panic buying, comes some reassurances from an expert in – what might be some good news from a leading expert who has examined the data and predicts a less gloomy outcome than most. The Los Angeles Times reports that Michael Levitt, a Stanford biophysicist, who […]
President Donald Trump appeared to back away from renewed military attacks on Iran yesterday after rockets fired at two Iraqi army bases housing US personnel failed to inflict any injuries. “Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world,” Trump told […]
The Pentagon has announced that over a dozen missiles were fired by Iran at two US airbases in Iraq on Tuesday night, in an apparent revenge attack for the death of General Qasem Soleimani.
Just so we’re clear about this, it would, of course, be a war crime: WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday evening doubled down on his claim that he would target Iranian cultural sites if Iran retaliated for the targeted killing of one of its top generals, and threatened “very big sanctions” on Iraq if American troops are […]
Iranian officials have labelled last night’s airstrike on senior generals as an “act of war”, promising “harsh revenge” for the attack on a military convoy at Baghdad airport that killed eight people in total.
US soldiers are currently firing tear gas and stun grenades from the rooftop of the US embassy after hundreds of Shia protestors stormed the Baghdad compound following airstrikes on pro-Iranian Hezbollah forces which killed 25 militants on Sunday.
Christian woman Fatemeh Bakhteri has started a one year prison sentence in Iran for alleged “propaganda” against the government after refusing to renounce her faith. Judges had encouraged her to renounce her Christian faith, as it was her activities as a Christian that led her to being convicted last year.
Tim Jackson says we must learn from past mistakes.