Geography Archives: Middle East

The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.

It is just six months into Trump’s presidency, and he has waged direct military assaults on two countries, Yemen and Iran. Many of Trump’s supporters were surprised by this, for he had campaigned on a platform of ending U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.

In Gaza, starvation is weaponized, aid is corrupted, and humanitarianism is hijacked by profiteers and war criminals posing as saviors, as Taylor Miller exposes in this searing indictment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its genocidal complicity.

A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

The U.S. and Israel’s unchecked aggression has plunged the world into a lawless state of imperial violence—yet their latest attacks on Iran have only exposed the limits of colonial power.

Aid sites operating under a U.S.-backed model are now scenes of repeated massacres, with no pause even amid regional war escalations.

According to the Unified Rules of Boxing issued by the U.S. Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, when the bell sounds for the end of each round, there is a “rest period” before the boxers resume their fight, or one retires too hurt to continue.

According to General Daniel Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. has knocked out Iran’s nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapon preparation plants with “extremely severe destruction”; “completely and totally”, according to President Donald Trump.

The story: U.S. President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.”

The IRGC said it has identified and surveilled the bases from which the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was launched, affirming its entitlement to respond in self-defense.

In her powerful reflection, Nahid Poureisa shows how Israeli aggression has catalyzed the reunification of the Iranian nation and state, forging solidarity, resistance, and clarity in the face of war.

A Pentagon rift over military aid to “Israel” reveals tensions between advocates of Middle East engagement and those prioritizing Asia, shaping Trump’s foreign policy.

Trump says Iran is weeks from a nuclear weapon, contradicting U.S. intelligence assessments.

Unlike Iran, Israel is already a nuclear state, with a secretive programme that dates back to the 1950s.

This is as serious as it gets. Let’s survey the chessboard—from micro to macro.

Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.

Communists in Iran and Israel strongly condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Iran and President Donald Trump’s backing for it. 

Hundreds of U.S. veterans and allies have been fasting for weeks across the country, in protest against the ongoing war in Gaza.

Israel’s right to self-defense and other tall tales for big children in high office.