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Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

20Mar

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Iran, USA

Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

Posted by: John Phoenix Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it. By Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal, Reposted from The Greyzone, February 1, 2026 The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent less than 10% of the real number of fatalities.” That quote was attributed by The Guardian to an alleged doctor whose real name the newspa...

Trump demands trillions in payments from Gulf countries, billions from Harvard – Not a ceasefire Day 162

20Mar

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Europe, Iran, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Trump demands trillions in payments from Gulf countries, billions from Harvard – Not a ceasefire Day 162

Posted by: John Phoenix contact@ifamericansknew.org A search and rescue member inspects the site among the rubble of a damaged building near Risalat Square following Israeli and US strikes that caused heavy destruction in eastern Tehran, Iran on March 12, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff WARS ON IRAN, LEBANON – NEWS & HEADLINES: Why is If Americans Knew covering the war on Iran? It can not be overemphasized that Israel has been the impetus behind US policies and actions vis-a-vis Iran for years. This is especially true right now, under Donald Trump. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the US to attack Iran for decades. The American people have made clear that they ...

The Ukraine war and the manufacture of consent

20Mar

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Russia, Ukraine

The Ukraine war and the manufacture of consent

Posted by: John Phoenix The Ukraine war. Three simple words that roll off the tongue with little thought or consequence. Like the Iraq war. The Afghanistan war. The Libyan war. And all the others. Each becomes a label, a shorthand, stripped of history, politics, humanity and class content. We read the headlines when they surface, absorb the approved outrage, and move on. For most people in Britain, what is happening does not yet intrude directly into daily life. Our children are not being conscripted. Our homes are not being bombed. There is no rationing, no air-raid sirens, no visible sacrifice demanded. It’s what happens to other people, in other places and has little to do with us. As long as the war remains ‘over there’, ignorance is not only possible but encouraged. We ...

Time to Pull the Plug On Trump and Naziyahu

20Mar

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Iran, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Time to Pull the Plug On Trump and Naziyahu

No US interest is served in allowing political domination by Israel Philip Giraldi The extent to which Israeli interests have come to dominate US foreign policy in the Middle East can be measured in terms of its effectiveness if one considers the seven trips to the US made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Bibi received a passionate reception from Congress and the media which came in spite of the fact that he was the man principally responsible for a horrific genocide being conducted against the Gazans and, more recently, unprovoked attacks on primarily civilian targets on the Palestinian West Bank as well as in neighboring Lebanon and Syria. Admittedly, the soft landing by Netanyahu in the United States has be...

An Iranian Toll-Gate on the Strait of Hormuz?

20Mar

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Iran, USA, ZIO-NAZI

An Iranian Toll-Gate on the Strait of Hormuz?

Ron Unz EPub Format The American-Israeli war against Iran began a couple of weeks ago and seemed very much a David-vs-Goliath contest, with combat operations likely to be extremely one-sided. In recent years, America’s annual military spending has been roughly a trillion dollars, while Iran’s budget was merely $8 billion. Some estimates put Iran’s true outlays as considerably higher, but hardly enough to level the playing field. So whether the actual ratio of our military expenditures has been 100-to-1 or 70-to-1 or even merely 50-to-1, the mismatch was stark. Over the last quarter-century, our ground forces have greatly shrunk in size, so our current strength is overwhelmingly concentrated in our air power, supplemented by our naval forces, with the lat...

Here’s Who Really Weaponizes Children in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

5Feb

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Russia, Ukraine

Here’s Who Really Weaponizes Children in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by: John Phoenix As accusations of abductions resurface, it’s clear the West doesn’t care about facts on the ground if they contradict the narrative By Eva Bartlett Global Research, For the last three years, Ukraine and concerted legacy media campaigns have been screaming that Russia has abducted, or forcibly displaced, thousands of Ukrainian children – even up to 1.5 million! The accusations resurged in December, with a UN General Assembly vote on a draft resolution on the return of Ukrainian children. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name. Русский, Deutsch, Italiano, Español, 中文, Portugues, Français, عربي, Hebrew, Farsi, 日本語, 한...

Türkiye’s Kardak Intervention on Its 30th Anniversary. Will Trumpism Infect the Aegean?

5Feb

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Turkey, USA

Türkiye’s Kardak Intervention on Its 30th Anniversary. Will Trumpism Infect the Aegean?

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, In-depth Report: THE BALKANS Giannis Valinakis, who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece between 2004 and 2009 and currently serves as the President of the Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence at the University of Athens, stated the following during an interview on a Greek television channel: “I think that NATO will no longer provide any guarantees to Greece. Greece’s security environment is deteriorating. NATO is under serious pressure, and this pressure comes primarily from the Americans. In fact, it is being discussed whether NATO will survive in the long term. Article 5, that is, support for an ally that has been attacked, is becoming weaker with Trump’s statements. Europe is also weakening internal...

Iraq under Threat from Trump, ISIS Prisoners from Syria, and Possible US-Iran War

5Feb

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C.I.A, Iran, Iraq, Syria, USA

Iraq under Threat from Trump, ISIS Prisoners from Syria, and Possible US-Iran War

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, Iraq has reached a decisive moment, caught between escalating U.S. pressure, unresolved internal political deadlock, and mounting regional tensions linked to Iran. Following a high-level phone call between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani, Washington has signaled a recalibration of its Iraq policy—combining military drawdown with unprecedented financial leverage—while accelerating the transfer of thousands of ISIS detainees from Syria into Iraqi custody. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name. عربي, Русский, Español, 中文, Portugues, Français, Hebrew, Deutsch,&n...

Zionist Expansion: A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria

4Feb

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Syria, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist Expansion: A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria

Posted by: John Phoenix Sam Kimball The following report was funded by the CounterPunch Investigative Fund. To support our work and more in-depth reports like this, consider donating. “They came in the night after Assad fled,” said Mohammed, a resident of Kodena, a small village perched upon rolling hills of rocky soil, about a mile and a half east of the unofficial border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli forces “rode in jeeps, hummers, armored personnel carriers, Merkava tanks,” into the rural hamlet in southern Quneitra province, said Mohammed, who declined to give his last name out of fear of reprisal for speaking to the media. The border is the “Purple Line,” a ceasefire line imposed after the 1967 war in which Israel conquered a slic...

Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong

1Dec

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Iran

Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong

Posted by: John Phoenix New York Times building (Wikimedia Commons) On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong. by Ted Snider, reposted from Antiwar, November 17, 2025 The article badly misses the shift in relations in the region. By implying that other countries in the region are more willing to work with the U.S. and insisting that “Iran is more isolated from the West than it has been in decades,” the article presents an Iran who is increasingly alone in the region. Nothing could be further from the truth. The biggest rift in the region was the rift between Iran and Saudi Arabia. In 2023, Iran and Saudi ...