No Exit in Iran

April 1, 2026
Mel Gurtov

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 حمله به ایران توسط نیروهای آمریکائی و اسرائیلی در روز نهم ماه اسفند سال پیش، مصادف با بیست و هشت فوریهٔ این سال مسیحی‌ آغاز شد. با توجه به اینکه حملهٔ پیشین آنها زمانی‌ صورت گرفت که نمایندگان ایران در حین مذاکرات اتمی‌ بودند، دولت ایران آمادگی چنین حملهٔ غافل‌گیرانه‌ای توسط این دو نیروی متخاصم را داشت، و به سرعت پاسخ داد. البته در این شکّی نیست که نیروی نظامی ایران قدرت مقابله با نیروهای نظامی آمریکا و اسرائیل را ندارد، و بنابراین تلفات ایرانیان بسیار بیشتر از تلفات دو نیروی دیگر می‌باشد، بخصوص که ارتش ایران در مقام دفاع، و نه حمله است.ا

Report: Iranian Oil Profits Doubled Since Start of War

March 30, 2026
Kyle Anzalone

Since the US and Israeli surprise attack on Iran, Tehran has continued to export oil that is selling at significantly higher prices.

‘Go to the Strait, and Just TAKE IT’ – Trump Blasts Allies – Iran War News in Brief

March 31, 2026

Trump rebukes allies, US escalates strikes, Hormuz crisis deepens, Tehran rejects claims, and regional tensions continue expanding rapidly.

Trump lashes out at the UK: “Go get your own oil!” as he tells allies the US “won’t be there to help you anymore.” (Image illustration: PC)

“The Institutions Have Not Collapsed”: Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War

March 30, 2026
As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key export hub in the Persian Gulf. President Trump’s comments come as 3,500 U.S. troops began arriving in the region on Friday, with The Washington Post reporting that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of potential ground combat in Iran. According to a consortium of human rights groups in Iran, nearly 1,500 Iranian civilians, including at least 217 children, have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. Iranian scholar Ali Kadivar says the increased targeting of residential areas, schools and hospitals in recent days shows that regime change is no longer the main goal, if it ever was. “These recent attacks on civilian infrastructure makes the war look more like a war on Iran as a nation-state,” says Kadivar, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and an associate professor at Boston College.

Iran war live: Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt, Saudi seek to de-escalate

March 29, 2026
Christine Maguire and Urooba Jamal

• Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the United States is plotting a ground attack despite publicly engaging in diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war.
• Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt and Saudi Arabia meet in Islamabad looking to de-escalate the US-Israel war on Iran.
• Iran threatens retaliatory attacks on Israeli and US universities in the Middle East as powerful explosions hit Tehran and deaths are reported in Shaft and Bandar Khamir.
• Yemen’s Houthis launch a second missile-and-drone assault on Israel saying they’ll continue until Israel “ceases its attacks and aggression”.
• Protesters rally against the war on Iran in Tel Aviv and cities across the US as people in Lebanon take to the streets of Beirut over Israel’s killing of three journalists in a targeted strike.
• Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.

The Increasingly Dire Costs of the War on Iran

March 28, 2026
Pat Hynes with Anna Gyorgy
Economist Jeffrey Sachs calls the Israeli and American war on Iran the beginning of World War III, driven by a “madman” and know-nothing president unrestrained by “hollowed out” politicians and surrounded by “sycophants.” Some of the most cogent early coverage of the war thus frames this conflict for what it is:  a lawless, soulless, brainless killing or wounding of thousands upon thousands of Iranian children and adults and displacing millions.  An enduring menace to the global economy, this unnecessary and illegal war also pushes the world toward long-term environmental disaster.  You will not read or hear this brutally honest coverage in any weak-kneed mainstream media or discourse, but Informed Comment will always be honest with you.

‘Beyond despicable,’ says Democrat after White House official says Trump ‘bored’ with Iran war

March 27, 2026
Brad Reed

“Real people have paid the price of this war,” said Rep. Don Beyer. “Civilians have been killed throughout the Middle East, including the US missile strike that killed more than 150 schoolchildren.”

Iran war restores King Dollar’s crown, for now

March 27, 2026
William Pesek

From Thailand to Philippines to South Korea, Asia is getting crushed between surging oil and a surprisingly resurgent US dollar

Investors have fled to dollar safety during the Iran war. Image: AI Generated

Repression in the Classroom

March 27, 2026
Paul Buhle

Jane S. Smith, A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2025), 224 pages, $26.95, hardcover.

Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvan, Operation Mind: A Brief Documentary Account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And Why It Matters Now (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Disobedience Press/University of Michigan Press, 2025), 118 pages, $15, paperback.

The US-Israeli War on Iran Is Incentivizing Nuclear Proliferation

March 26, 2026
Jon Letman
As nuclear-armed countries violate international law, others may turn to proliferation as a form of deterrence.

Plumes of smoke rise over the oil depot tanks hit by joint Israel-U.S. strikes over night in a station north west of the capital on March 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.

Accountability and Jail, Not Hope and Change

March 26, 2026
Conor Lynch

Almost 20 years after Obama gave high-level criminality a pass, Democrats must be ready to put powerful people behind bars.

The next wave of Democrats must be willing to prosecute the "Epstein class" for their crimes. (Graphic by Truthdig; images via AP Photo, Adobe Stock)

Craig Murray: The London Ambulance Attack

March 25, 2026
Craig Murray

Iran has a zero record of attacking healthcare facilities, even in Israel. And there are multiple red flags about linking the recently-emerged terrorist group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, to Iran.

ارزش زندگی‌

نخست باید دریافت که چگونه زندگی‌ آغاز می‌شود و پایان می‌گیرد. شکسپیر در داستان هملت جملهٔ مشهوری دارد که می‌گوید پرسش در بودن یا نبودن است. بودن به معنی زندگی‌ کردن، و نبودن پایان این زندگی‌ است. از آنجائی که ما از نبودِ خود آگاه نخواهیم بود، و زمانی‌ که هستیم فقط عدم هستی‌ دیگران را مشاهده می‌کنیم، بنابراین نبودن، و یا مرگ، برای شخص ما مفهومی‌ ندارد، و همواره باید به بودن بی‌اندیشیم. نوآوری‌های پزشکی‌، تکنولوژیکی، و سایر نوآوری‌ها به منظور افزایش زمان و یا دورانِ این بودن، و در آسایش زیستن است. گرچه ما همواره کوشش می‌کنیم که این بودن را کش دهیم و در عین حال از این بودن خشنود باشیم، ولی‌ از طرف دیگر، ما به تسلیهاتی روی می‌آوریم که هدف آنها نابودی دیگران است.ا

‘War has costs’: Iran begins charging select vessels up to $2m for Hormuz transit

March 24, 2026

Several countries are coordinating directly with Tehran for safe passage as the US-Israeli war drags on for a fourth week

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

March 23, 2026
Meg Hansen

However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic self-own in our great-power competition with China

A web of sensors: How the US spots missiles and drones from Iran

March 21, 2026
Aaron Brynildson
The global price of oil continues to skyrocket as Iran’s missiles and drones hit vital infrastructure in Arab Gulf states. Billion-dollar American radar systems have also been targeted and destroyed across the Middle East by Iran, seemingly degrading U.S. defenses.

Ecuador’s Netanyahu and Trump supporters target Ecuadorian–Iranian Cultural Center

March 21, 2026
Written (Español) by Xime Yauca
Translated (English) by Laura

People who witnessed the violent attack experienced physical and psychological impairments

How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

March 16, 2026
Chris Hedges

Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged.

Iran war live: US-Israeli strikes killed over 200 children, says foreign minister

March 16, 2026

Meanwhile, European allies refuse US request to help open Strait of Hormuz