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The U.S. and Iran were close to a deal in Islamabad when the Americans shifted the goalposts and walked away, said Iran’s foreign minister. Iranian Foreign Minister Abas Araghchi. (Hamed Malekpour/Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons) By Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams Iran’s foreign minister said Sunday that the Trump administration’s representatives derailed marathon talks in Pakistan’s capital with maximalist demands, just as the two sides were “inches away” from a preliminary agreement to end the six-week conflict. “In intensive talks at the highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S. in good faith to end war,” Abbas Araghchi wrote on social media. “But when just inches…
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Unless he suddenly loses practically all of the instincts and tactical astuteness that got him where he is, President Trump will win the Iran war. It may be that it will have proved a mistake to go to negotiations, but as the president has made clear before and during the Iran negotiations in Islamabad, he expects to win either way. This is as he possesses, with his Israeli allies, the ability to clear the Hormuz Strait to assure that Iran does not become a nuclear military power, and to strangle Iran so that it has no ability to underwrite international…
The near constant refrain has been that they’ve been at war against us for 47 years, and now we are (finally) hitting back. It isn’t always obvious whether this claim is, in the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s phrase, “boob bait for the bubbas” or believed sincerely. Like most claims in politics, there are some facts to support it. The Iranian regime has been hostile from its beginning. The collapse of the American-allied Shah’s regime, and the triumphant return to Iran of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini with demonstrations in his favor larger than any seen in the history of the world,…
Image by Hennie Stander. Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party Volume One, Coming of Age in the Communist and Labor Movements. Edited by Jay Shaffner, Paul Friedman, Cindy Hawes, Geoffrey Jacques, Timothy Johnson, Carol Pittman, Donna Ristorucci, Daniel Rosenberg, Jackie Saindon, and others, with an Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley. New York: Punctum Press, 2026. 406pp, $27.00 (download free). +++ If the Popular Front of the 1930s Wartime and the alliance of the US with Russia marked the high point of Communist activity and influence in the US and in much of the rest of the world,…
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Washington’s public line is tidy enough to fit inside a briefing note. An F-15E Strike Eagle was downed over Iran, one crew member was recovered, the second crew member was later pulled out, and the United States carried out a difficult but successful Combat Search and Rescue operation inside hostile territory. That much explains why HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters, pararescue jumpers, and support aircraft were in the air. What it does not explain is why the episode ended with a special operations wreck field near Shahreza that included two MC-130J Commando II aircraft and three MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, platforms associated with CSAR missions but also…
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