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Over 100 Protesters Killed In Iran Amid Largest Internet Shutdown In Nation’s History
Over 100 Protesters Killed In Iran Amid Largest Internet Shutdown In Nation’s History Now five days into widespread protests in some one hundred Iranian cities after a dramatic gas price hike last Friday, Amnesty Internationalreports that at least 106 have been killed. However, “The organisation believes that the real death toll may be much higher, with some reports suggesting […]
US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming
US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming It took Washington all of two days to jump behind the large popular protests over gas price hikes which gripped cities across Iran since Friday. Over the weekend the US State Department predictably came out in favor of more protests, in a volatile situation in the […]
Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts
Iran Burning: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts With protests and unrest raging in multiple hot spots around the globe from Latin America to Hong Kong to Lebanon and Iraq, it could be Iran’s turn to join in. Amid a fresh price hike in gasoline — the latest in a string of woes to […]
Iran Reportedly Shoots Down “Foreign Drone” Over Southern Port City Of Mahshahr
Iran Reportedly Shoots Down “Foreign Drone” Over Southern Port City Of Mahshahr Moments ago, local Iranian news outlets confirmed the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have shot down a drone from a “foreign country.” IRANIAN OFFICIAL CONFIRMS DOWNING OF A DRONE BY ARMY, SAYS IT BELONGS TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY – YOUNG JOURNALISTS CLUB COMMANDER OF […]
Pompeo Tells Israel It Has “Fundamental Right” To Attack Iranian Targets In The Region
Pompeo Tells Israel It Has “Fundamental Right” To Attack Iranian Targets In The Region “Our administration’s been very clear,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive Friday interview, published on Sunday. “Israel has the fundamental right to engage in activity that ensures the security of its people. It’s at the very core of what […]
Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack
Major Blaze At Iran Oil Refinery Raises Suspicions Of Saudi Revenge Attack A section of Iran’s sprawling Abadan oil refinery in the southwest of the country went up in flames Saturday, and state media sources reported the emergency was under control as of Sunday morning. State media is describing it as “a fire in a canal carrying waste from Iran’s Abadan […]
Iran Claims To Have Video Evidence Of Oil Tanker Attacks
Iran Claims To Have Video Evidence Of Oil Tanker Attacks By – Oct 16, 2019, 2:30 PM CDTJoin Our Community Iran has claimed that it has footage of last week’s attack on its oil tanker while off the Saudi Arabian Jeddah port, and it proves that the attacks were carried out by Israel, Saudi Arabia, and […]
Iranian Oil Tanker Struck By 2 Missiles Near Saudi Port
Iranian Oil Tanker Struck By 2 Missiles Near Saudi Port Many questions remained unanswered early Friday after an attack on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea sent oil prices higher, in the latest attack on energy-industry infrastructure in an increasingly volatile part of the world. According to the New York Times, a fire erupted […]
The US-Iran Silent War is Transformed Into An “Iraq Uprising”
THE US-IRAN SILENT WAR IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN “IRAQ UPRISING” The last four days have shown that the ongoing US-Iran war is acutely affecting the whole region. This is now evident in Iraq where more than 105 people have been killed and thousands wounded in the course of demonstrations that engulfed the capital Baghdad and […]
Three Saudi Brigades Annihilated in Devastating Houthi Offensive in Saudi Arabia
Three Saudi Brigades Annihilated in Devastating Houthi Offensive in Saudi Arabia Many may have hitherto been led to believe that the Houthis were a ragtag armed force lacking in sophistication. Many, seeing the drone and missile attacks on Saudi oil plants, may have declared it to be a false-flag attack carried out by Riyadh to […]
Trump, FDR, and War
Trump, FDR, and War President Trump’s campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran reminds me of President Franklin Roosevelt’s similar campaign against Japan prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After England declared war on Germany, owing to the latter’s invasion of Poland, the American people were overwhelmingly opposed to entry into the war. That […]
Oil Erases All Saudi-Attack Gains After Iran Sanctions Report
Oil Erases All Saudi-Attack Gains After Iran Sanctions Report Already helped by reports of a partial Saudi cease-fire with Yemen, oil prices have legged lower – erasing all the price gains since the Saudi-attack – on the back on a Reuters report saying that US offered to remove all Iranian sanctions in exchange for talks. That’s not […]
Peak oil in Asia: where will the oil come from for the Asian Century?
Peak oil in Asia: where will the oil come from for the Asian Century? Asian oil production peaked above 8 mb/d for the period between 2008 and 2016 (with spikes in 2010 and 2015). The 2015 peak was mainly caused by peak oil in China. Since then Asia’s decline was almost 800 kb/d or 9%. […]
