The resistance of top US military officials to deepening US military involvement in the war against ISIS came in the wake of a major policy debate within the Obama administration
US-led coalition still wants inspections of Iranian military facilities it deems suspicious and interviews with Iranian nuclear scientists
It is certainly time to discuss the problem of proxy war in the Middle East, because a series of such wars are the heart of the destabilisation and chaos engulfing the region
The slack-jawed media approach to the story has produced the usual fog of misinformation and confusion
The real story behind America’s 30-year Cold War with Iran
One thing the US text makes clear is that the issue of Iranian research and development on advanced centrifuges research & development remains unresolved
The real story is how enforcers of Likudist policy on Iran used a young Republican politician to try to provoke a breakdown in nuclear talks
Netanyahu bears personal responsibility for having created a conflict with Iran that had never existed before. But it is not the conflict that he has been alleging all these years
No military or counter-terrorism analyst believes that the military force applied in Iraq and Syria has even the slightest chance of defeating IS
The officials responsible for maintaining the fiction could not have anticipated that a former agency officer who knew the truth would ever speak out publicly and destroy what had appeared to be a successful cover-up
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