Attacking Iran: Tragedy or Farce?

According to The Telegraph, Washington is losing patience with British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, accusing him of failing to ‘match his more robust private conversations on Iran with hard-hitting public statements’. Is this simply political self-preservation from a man who has yet to face his electorate, or does Brown know what many of us strongly [...]

Removing the Regime in Iran From the Page of Time?

For anyone who believes the US and her allies have been manipulating the public into supporting military action against Iran, the latest Zogby International poll makes grim reading. According to this poll, which has an error margin of +/- 3.1%, 52.9% of US voters now believe it is either very likely or slightly likely that [...]

The Algiers Discord

In March 1954, Dr Donald N Wilbur wrote a paper entitled ‘Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran’. It was an historical review of Project TPAJAX, the CIA’s first successful overthrow of a foreign government, which was carried out in August 1953. Although Wilbur himself had been one of the plan’s chief architects, the original idea [...]

United by Noble Lies

A March 2004 US House of Representatives Minority report entitled Iraq on the Record, The Bush Administration’s Public Statements on Iraq, found that, beginning twelve months prior to the commencement of hostilities in Iraq, key administration officials made ‘237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq’. This figure ‘does not include statements that appear [...]

Exploiting the Damsel-in-Distress

As delighted as I am by the safe return of our sailors and marines from Iran, I can’t help but feel a real sense of disappointment at their decision to sell their stories to the media. I am equally disappointed with the Ministry of Defence for its decision to allow them to sell their stories, [...]

Reflecting on Our Relationship With Iran

As fifteen British sailors held in Iran for 13 days arrived back in the UK, four British soldiers were reported to have been killed in a roadside bomb blast near Basra in southern Iraq. “A plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves… some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. [...]