Nasser Asadi - UN Representative, Iran

 

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (English Subtitles)

 

https://youtu.be/MBSBSo06Br4?si=Sjn7GnIV-sDn4cvf

The East is a Podcast – 21 jul 2026

I am reposting this video produced by Iran Talks, who went through the trouble of subtitling this very long and comprehensive interview that Iranian FM did with a journalist in Tehran recently.

Follow Iran Talks on their socials

https://www.aparat.com/irantalksofficial

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Why the 2026 Iran War is the Death of Israel, Trump & the American Empire

 

https://youtu.be/Br-WNmKwFCM?si=NH2l55dIsPIsnkuE

Double Down News - 7 jul 2026

For decades, the Western war machine assumed its high-tech hegemony was untouchable. Not anymore...

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"There is no doubt that Iran won this war" — Mohammad Marandi

 

https://youtu.be/JXGkQILOLYE?si=yPDor8kqC50Zj2dU

Break Through News -16 jun 2026

Professor Mohammed Marandi joins Rania Khalek to discuss the reported US-Iran memorandum of understanding, why Iran insists Lebanon’s sovereignty is non-negotiable, and whether Israel could derail the deal before it is even signed. He explains how Iran views the 39-day war, the battle over Lebanon, Gaza’s place in the negotiations, and why he says Tehran has emerged stronger at both the battlefield and negotiating table.

"It’s not that Iran just survived, which everyone across the world was stunned by," says Marandi. "Iran, till the very end, was pounding them day and night. And the damage that Iran did to the US-Israeli regime, and to their proxies in the region, was far greater than the damage they did to Iran in costs."

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Iran Attacks Israel After Israel Attacks Beirut — Dimitri Lascaris

 

https://youtu.be/U0zQZZWFNxA?si=Q14ZhqHPKFVawKsz

Reason2Resist - 7 jun 2026

Today, Israel launched a deadly strike on the Beirut suburb of Dahieh.

It did so despite warnings from Iran that Iran would strike northern Israel if Israel bombed Beirut again.

True to its word, the Iranian military just launched a series of missiles strikes on northern Israel. Iran has dubbed this military operation as "True Promise Five".

Dimitri Lascaris is in Beirut, Lebanon today, and reports on what is happening there.

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Another Israeli War Crime In Iran: The Ghandi Hospital Atrocity

 

https://youtu.be/1fGpKe0A2jE?si=zMqG5Km5OhDL1w4U

Reason2Resist - 25 mar 2026

On March 1, an Israel airstrike inflicted severe damage on the Ghandi Hospital in Tehran.

The attack destroyed the Hospital's in-vitro fertilization department along with its equipment, forcing staff to move cells and embryos.

The Hospital appears to have been damaged after Israel's genocidal military struck buildings housing Iranian state television’s Channel 2, only 30 metres from the entrance of the Hospital. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said reports of damage to the hospital were "extremely worrying".

While in Tehran, Dimitri Lascaris visited what remains of the Hospital and spoke to its Vice-President about efforts to restore the facility to normal functioning.

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What they're not telling you about Iran, with Setareh Sadeqi

 

https://youtu.be/POweJrIRAmE?si=ZU3IIweqYlokT69P

The Electronic Intifada 20 mar 2026

It has been almost three weeks since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran.

Having failed to achieve a quick success – and as conflict spreads across the region and impacts the global economy – Washington and Tel Aviv are escalating their attacks on Iran’s population, as well as its civilian, cultural and economic infrastructure.

Iran’s health ministry said this week that 18,000 people have been injured. More than 200 children are among 1,300 people killed in the attacks.

We are joined in Isfahan, Iran, by Dr. Setareh Sadeqi, an assistant professor at the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran and a specialist in North American studies and Iran–US relations.

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Sam Torabi: Iran draws its strength from society itself

 

https://youtu.be/DiKa0JWaBis?si=UfHkTz_UeX3_rF0G

Al Mayadeen English  25 January 2026

In The Proximate Aspect, Iranian researcher specializing in strategic affairs and international relations, Sam Torabi, challenges the long-standing assumption that Iran can be destabilized from the outside, arguing that the Islamic Republic draws its strength from society itself, a reality its adversaries consistently fail to grasp.

Torabi also addresses whether US intelligence agencies and Mossad miscalculated their ability to spark a color revolution in Iran, pointing instead to a state that has repeatedly turned pressure into cohesion.

He also warns about foreign-funded networks operating inside Iran, describing their role in manufacturing chaos as more destructive than ISIS.

"What is the cause of Iran's economic stagnation? Would surrendering to the West save Iran economically?" are questions that are answered throughout the episode.

00:00 Introduction

03:03 Who is Sam Torabi?

04:24 Popular legitimacy of the Iranian regime

07:40 Failure of regime-change efforts in Iran

10:40 Iran’s unexpected technological superiority

15:47 Iranian economic crisis

19:03 Iran's future: Shaped by principles or by pragmatism?

21:33 What happens to a society bled dry?

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The Genocide In Palestine Has Not Ended w/ Dr. Setareh Sadeqi Mohammadi

 

https://youtu.be/uj8RGYRq85Y?si=jR6U5V-TlymLG1UW

Reason2Resist - 13 oct 2025

Donald Trump insists that Israel's war on Gaza has ended, but can Trump and Netanyahu be trusted to stop their wanton murder and dispossession of Palestinians?

Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Dr. Setareh Sadeqi Mohammadi about the next chapter in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

Dr. Mohammadi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran. She holds a Ph.D. in North American Studies, and her research focuses on U.S.–Iran relations, sanctions, media narratives, and political communication.

Dimitri and Dr. Mohammadi also discuss the possibility of another Israeli attack on Iran, the U.N.'s snapback sanctions, and the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Trade with the genocidal entity:

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IRAN: The Nation That Refused to Kneel

 

https://youtu.be/qCRzQVWsWRU?si=QGdOd7jEz1zVZr4k

Mohammad Marandi : "You don't have democracy"

 

Zionism's Last Stand? Israel's War on Iran and the Collapse of Empire | Lowkey

 

https://youtu.be/loLjynFwcPc?si=C7Sc7BMRafzEMFQD

Palestine Deep Dive - 19 jun 2025

"The Zionist system in Palestine is closer to disintegration than at any point in its history!"

Support Palestine Deep Dive: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/sup...

Iran and Israel are at war after Israel launched an unprovoked attack last week. Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq sits down with legendary journalist and hip hop artist Lowkey to talk about the role Iran has played in the history of resistance to Zionism, about whether regime change in Iran is Israel's end goal, and who might come out on top.

They also talk about the resistance to the Gaza genocide within the UK, particularly the role Palestine Action has played, and the repression the British state has unleashed on activists and journalists to try to dampen the popular movement for Palestine.

Finally, they compare notes on being interviewed by Piers Morgan, and talk about whether his recent change of position on the genocide in Gaza is genuine, and what his real goal is with his popular Youtube show.

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Iran Has A Right To Defend Itself From Israel's Relentless Aggression w/ Craig Mokhiber

 

https://youtu.be/nImWlubb1Zw?si=EN0kb8mm-4FtKwOQ

Reasen2Resist - 17 jun 2025

Since Israel attacked Iran several days ago, the so-called “mainstream” discourse in the West has been chock full of proclamations that Israel has a “right to defend itself”.

But there have been few (if any) competent analyses of the legality of Israel’s actions.

To examine the legality of Israel's attacks on Iran and Iran's response to those attacks, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with former United Nations human rights lawyer, Craig Mokhiber.

Craig is a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, three weeks after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza began, Craig stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, four days before he was due to retire.

In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, Craig harshly criticized the organization's response to Israel’s war on Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act.

During the interview, Craig referred to a recent article he wrote for Foreign Policy in Focus. That article can be found here:

https://fpif.org/weog-the-uns-settler...

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The Whole Planet Is Being Kept Hostage by a Death Cult — Pepe Escobar

 

The Unz Review – 13/06/2025

It’s no wonder Washington is all in. This is now the Circus Ringmaster War.

Let’s cut to the chase. The devastating attack on Iran by the psychopathological genocidal "chosen" ethno-supremacist set up in Tel Aviv – a de facto declaration of war – was coordinated in detail with the President of the United States, Circus Ringmaster Donald Trump.

This infantilism-afflicted Narcissus Drowned in the Pool of his Own Image gave away the game, himself, in a rambling post. Selected highlights:

"I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal". No “deal”; actually his unilateral demands. After all, he torpedoed the original deal, the JCPOA, because it was not his "deal".

"I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told." The decision to strike had already been made.

"Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but (…) they are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!" Gloating comes with the territory.

"The next already planned attacks being even more brutal." Total alignment with the trademark Israeli "decapitation" strategy.

"Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire." It was Persian (italics mine) Empire – but after all this is a man who doesn’t read, or study. Notice the Art of Diplomacy: Take my deal, or drop dead.

This – incandescent – decade was launched by an assassination, of Gen. Soleimani in Baghdad, as I emphasized in my 2021 book Raging Twenties. He was on a diplomatic mission. The green light personally came from then President of the United States, Donald Trump.

The mid-Raging Twenties is now hurled to the brink of a devastating war in West Asia, with global repercussions, by the serial assassination of the IRGC leadership, in Tehran, by the psycho-genocidal Zionist entity. After an elaborate kabuki of deception, the green light to Tel Aviv – go ahead and do it – also came from the President of the United States, Trump 2.0 (who claimed he was "aware’" of the attacks).

A pre-emptive war against the BRICS

The psycho-pathological genocidal masterplan is to force Tehran to capitulate – without even putting up a fight. The preamble kabuki was masterfully executed. The indirect nuclear negotiations in Oman were taken seriously in Tehran, lulling the Iranian leadership, civilian and military, to sleep. They fell into the trap and were caught, literally, in their sleep.

Ayatollah Khamenei – who himself is in physical danger, as Israel is applying the same decapitation model it unleashed on Hezbollah – has a very tough decision to make: capitulation or total war. It will be total war – and with the U.S. as a direct participant.

The Iranian leadership – actually more the Pezeshkian presidency, crammed with proponents of an "accommodation" with the West – was induced into a false sense of security, forgetting that serial killers don’t do diplomacy.

So the price to pay now, for Iran, will be even more unbearable. Tehran will respond – assuming capabilities are still in place. In this case its oil industry runs the risk of being destroyed. It’s an open question whether two other top BRICS members alongside Iran – Russia and China -, for different reasons, will allow that to happen.

And were we about to enter this particular dangerous territory, Iran can play the ultimate card: shut down the Strait of Hormuz and collapse the global economy.

The attack on Iran, fully endorsed by the Empire of Chaos, is above all a pre-emptive attack on the BRICS energy core. It’s part and parcel of the imperial war against BRICS, especially Russia-China. Moscow and Beijing must be drawing the necessary conclusions in real time.

Iran, China and Russia are linked by interlocked strategic partnerships. Last month, I was in Iran tracking the progress of the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), which links Russia, Iran and India. This is only one among a series of key strategic infrastructure projects that will solidify even more Eurasian economic connectivity. A devastating war in West Asia, and a collapsing Iran, will represent a killer blow to increased Eurasia integration.

That’s exactly what suits the Empire’s designs.

So it’s no wonder Washington is all in. This is now the Circus Ringmaster War.

A devastating response; a nuclear weapon; or capitulation

Tehran’s message is, "We did not start the war, but Iran will determine how it ends."

The burning question is whether they still retain a significant deterrent – and offensive – capacity.

The genocidals are hitting ballistic missile storage systems at will in Iran’s northwest and even civilian Mehrabad airport in Tehran. Air defenses are nowhere to be seen. It’s immensely painful to watch.

IDF spin – nothing verified so far – claims that some missile silos and mobile complexes were destroyed even before they were placed on combat alert. Yet the fact is that the overwhelming majority of Iran’s vast arsenal of ballistic missiles is stored in deep, deep underground silos and tunnels, capable of withstanding massive air strikes and overloaded air defenses.

For the moment, Tehran is eerily silent. That makes sense, because they need, in record time, to re-establish a unified chain of command which was smashed by the attacks; make sure that missile launchers can be deployed and not be neutralized by Israeli air supremacy; reorganize the True Promise 3 operation, which was ready to go, as some of us learned in Tehran last month, but now adapted to the new situation (losses included); and plan how to deliver painful blows to Israel’s economic infrastructure.

There is no evidence that the attacks destroyed Iran’s nuclear infrastructure – which is buried deep underground. As it stands, the leadership in Tehran is learning the hard way that diplomacy – committees, letters to the UN, statements to the IAEA, ministerial meetings – all that is eviscerated when it comes to the law of the jungle.

Iranians were naïve enough to let the IAEA visit their strategic sites, when proverbial spies collected all the info they needed to facilitate Israeli strikes. The DPRK would have never fall into such a trap.

The elimination of a top figure such as Ali Shamkhani, Khamenei’s key advisor, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, with decades of influence across the IRGC and intelligence apparatus, is a serious blow.

Systematically erasing Iran’s military and diplomatic leadership in a matter of hours fits the rationale of smashing Khamenei’s close circle. That has started long ago with the Trump-ordered killing of Soleimani and certainly includes the mysterious death of former President Raisi and FM Abdollahian in that dodgy helicopter "accident". It’s all about creating the conditions for regime change.

On a rare auspicious note, the IRGC let it be known, before the attacks, that they have been developing a secret technology to intensify the impact of its missiles on Israel.

We are all riders on the storm now. Once again, there’s no way out: either a devastating blow to the psycho genocidals, or Iran assembles a nuclear weapon in no time. The third option is capitulation, emasculation, and regime change.

Meanwhile, the whole planet is hostage to a lethal threat. Andrea Zhok is professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Milan, and apart from his brilliant analyses, he wrote the preface of the Italian edition of my book Raging Twenties, published last year.

Prof. Zhok has succinctly pointed out how no political construction in modern history has amassed a toxic combination of messianic ethnic supremacism; supreme disregard for human life (everyone else, not "chosen", is "amalek" anyway); supreme disregard for international law; and unlimited access to lethal firepower.

So what is to be done with such a voracious, out of control death cult?

(Republished from Strategic Culture Foundation by permission of author or representative)

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Javad Zarif's message to the Jews

 

https://youtu.be/ECUqb8lTXUE?si=AYQOkMxUvKRTXQ1T

Mohamad Yavad Zarif, Iranian diplomat,

current head of the Iranian delegation negotiating

on Iran's nuclear program.

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Iran's Retaliatory Strike on Israel — Shahid Bolsen

An interesting point of view and analysis from Shahid Bolsen

regarding Iran's ballistic attack on Israel.

View from Iran: US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Reflects A Weakened Empire, w/ Mohammad Marandi

 

All eyes are on Afghanistan as the Taliban has rapidly taken over the entire country. Most coverage is focused on what this means for the US. But in reality, the West is removed and distant. Iran, on the other hand, is Afghanistan's neighbor and hosts about 2 million official or unofficial Afghan refugees and will likely absorb even more. Iran had a bad relationship with the Taliban in the 90s, which killed its diplomat. Iran now has to deal with this new reality on its border.

To discuss this as well as other developments in and around Iran, including sanctions, covid, nuclear deal negotiations and talks with Saudi Arabia, Rania Khalek was joined by Mohammad Marandi, professor of english literature and orientalism at the University of Tehran.

Apoteosis de la maldad — Atilio Borón

Jaque al neoliberalismo – 17/03/2020

La situación de los últimos días nos ofrece un ejemplo de una perversidad pocas veces vista: en medio de una pandemia global la mayor superpotencia del planeta persiste en la aplicación de una política de bloqueo y sanciones económicas contra terceros países que impiden, o dificultan enormemente, acceder a los medicamentos necesarios para defenderse de la mortal amenaza del coronavirus.

La historia de la humanidad está signada por infinidad de episodios que desnudan la omnipresencia del mal. Caín ultimando a su hermano Abel da comienzo a esta historia desde los albores míticos de la especie humana. A lo largo de siglos y milenios los ejemplos abundan, en todas las latitudes. Ninguna sociedad se libró del mal y los sufrimientos que ocasiona. Pero la situación de los últimos días nos ofrece un ejemplo de una perversidad pocas veces vista: en medio de una pandemia global la mayor superpotencia del planeta persiste en la aplicación de una política de bloqueo y sanciones económicas contra terceros países que impiden, o dificultan enormemente, acceder a los medicamentos necesarios para defenderse de la mortal amenaza del coronavirus.

Entre nosotros, Cuba y Venezuela han sido víctimas principales de esa política criminal. Cuba viene soportando con dignidad y estoicismo ejemplares el bloqueo integral más largo de la historia: ningún imperio, ningún déspota, ningún tirano por cruel o bárbaro que haya sido hizo lo que sucesivos gobiernos de Estados Unidos hicieron en contra de la isla rebelde. A lo largo de seis décadas perpetraron en su contra, sin pausa alguna, crímenes de lesa humanidad. Bajo Donald Trump éstos se agravaron hasta llegar a extremos desconocidos por la amplitud y variedad de sus intervenciones y su sistemática vocación de hacer el mal al pueblo cubano. Políticas genocidas encaminadas a exterminar o infligir graves daños a un colectivo, en este caso la nación cubana, que los autoproclamados líderes del mundo pretenden justificar aduciendo que con ellas la democracia, los derechos humanos y la justicia florecerán en Cuba. Detrás de tan altisonantes declaraciones se oculta un propósito inconfesable, perseguido por Estados Unidos desde 1783 según lo dejara sentado por escrito John Adams desde Londres. En efecto, en una célebre carta dijo que la isla era una “extensión natural” del territorio continental de Estados Unidos y que su anexión era necesaria para su seguridad nacional que podía ser nuevamente amenazada por el Reino Unido y que, por lo tanto, su independencia jamás debería ser tolerada. O sea, hay una obsesión de casi dos siglos y medio para apoderarse de la isla, misma que se exacerbó de modo extraordinario en fechas recientes.

Venezuela ha sufrido también la brutal agresión del imperio. Las “sanciones” económicas aplicadas el estado bolivariano y a sus principales dirigentes no tuvieron otro efecto que provocar crueles sufrimientos a la población y causar muertes por la imposibilidad de importar medicamentos y alimentos que o bien ya habían sido pagados o estaba el dinero depositado en bancos europeos para financiar su compra pero que la Casa Blanca ordenó inmovilizar. Otro genocidio de manual, unido al robo descarado de los patrimonios de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en el exterior –caso CITGO, por ejemplo– y los continuos sabotajes y hostilidades vehiculizados a través de algunos asesinos seriales como Iván Duque y de bufones corruptos como el “autoproclamado” Juan Guaidó, estúpido de marca mayor que cree que los drones y los misiles de una invasión estadounidense, en caso de producirse, afectarían tan sólo a los chavistas dejando indemnes a sus escasos y cada vez más desmoralizados partidarios.

Washington, que ya inició su inexorable declinación como centro imperial, actúa como un hampón desenfrenado que impone su ley gracias a la mortífera eficacia de sus armas y, también, a la cobardía de gobiernos como los de Europa y Japón que consienten sus tropelías y admiten ovejunamente la “extraterritorialidad” de las leyes de Estados Unidos. Creen que el Calígula neoyorquino en ningún momento se volverá también contra ellos. La pandemia está demostrando lo contrario y también ratifica que la maldad que encarna Donald Trump y la dirigencia política y corporativa de Estados Unidos es incomparable.

Nadie, absolutamente nadie, arrojó bombas atómicas sobre dos ciudades indefensas en Japón. Nadie sometió a otro pueblo a un bloqueo de sesenta años o a sanciones económicas destinadas a infligir el mal a una comunidad. En el marco de una pandemia como la actual un mínimo resto de sentimientos humanitarios debería haber impulsado a la dirigencia de Estados Unidos –y no sólo a Trump– a declarar la temporaria suspensión del bloqueo y las sanciones en contra de Cuba y Venezuela. No lo han hecho, ni lo harán. Tenía razón Oscar Wilde cuando, hace poco más de un siglo, dijera que “Estados Unidos es el único país que pasó de la barbarie a la decadencia sin pasar por la civilización”.

As usual throughout its history, US government lies AGAIN