Tag: USA-IRAN

NOVANEWS ADAM GARRIE America seems intent on needlessly provoking Iran. Tensions between Iran and the United States continue to boil over after the US levelled further sanctions on Iran after the Islamic Republic successfully launched a satellite into space. Today’s confrontation in the Persian Gulf wherein a United States Nimitz class aircraft carrier and an accompanying ship  fired warning shots at small Iranian patrol boats, is the second such incident in less than a week. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) issued the following statement about the matter, “With only a few days since a provocative move in the northern end of the Persian Gulf in which the US Navy ships fired warning shots at an Iranian vessel, the American warships have once again taken the same action...

NOVANEWS By Pepe Escobar Asia Times   Here we go again. General “Mad Dog” Mattis, the US Secretary of Defense, declares Iran “is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.” National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn puts Iran “on notice.” President Trump says “they are not behaving,” and, on his Superbowl interview, doubles down: “They are the No 1 terrorist state. They’re sending money all over the place – and weapons. And… [they] can’t do that.” Iran is slapped with new sanctions. It’s as if Dick “Dark Side” Cheney and Donald “known unknowns” Rumsfeld never left. Never allow facts to get in the way of a bombastic quote. “State sponsor of terrorism” is a neocon meme for any nation/political system that resists US Exceptionalism. The industrial-military-...