Senior British military and intelligence figures including two former UK security ministers and a head of special forces are advising a US organisation that has long supported military action against Iran and is now congratulating Donald Trump for his war on the country.    United Against Nu...

On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ , the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK: ‘Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own people in the streets who had...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Nobody wants to believe they’re the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable evils upon populations around the globe in order to rule t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now People tell me, “It’s possible to oppose this war AND oppose the Iranian regime. You can denounce BOTH.” Sure you can. But you shouldn’t. You should not do this. You should not be a pro bono Pentagon propagand...

Keir Starmer has said that the UK “does not believe in regime change from the skies” and that lessons from the Iraq war have been learned. Yet 11 days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the prime minister is letting the UK become increasingly involved in a conflict which has been roundly criti...

On 28 February, a girls’ primary school in southern Iran was hit by a missile, killing 168 people, mostly children. The UN education agency, UNESCO, said the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”. Videos analysed by Bellingcat re...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Watching Amazon Prime while the Iranians burn. Stuffing our mouths with cheesysugarbacon while the sky turns black over Tehran. Laughing without smiling. Laughing with full mouths and empty eyes while their wate...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now It’s not okay for grown adults to believe the United States wages wars to promote humanitarian interests and bring freedom and democracy to oppressed populations. It’s not okay for grown adults to believe that ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US soldiers who are getting killed in the war with Iran were not heroes. They did not die defending their country. They did not die fighting to protect Americans. They died advancing the geostrategic agendas...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Young people keep asking me if this was what the Iraq invasion was like. I’ve been telling them “Sort of, but this is way dumber and crazier.” There were fairly intelligent people who bought into the Iraq war p...

After a drone hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on Sunday night, the debate in Britain has centred on why the airfield was not better protected. But in Cyprus, anger is focused on why Britain still has military bases there at all. “We got no sleep last night,” local resident Melanie Steli...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his signature “I don’t have a small penis” tirades at the Pentagon on Wednesday , ranting and raving about the big, powerful, masculine war machinery that’s currently r...

Keir Starmer has given his approval for Donald Trump’s US to attack Iran using British military bases. But the UK government imposes a considerable veil of secrecy over the US use of these bases, keeping the British public in the dark about how its territory is used in foreign wars.  Fo...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran. This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil. Iran isn’t blanketing a major me...

Commenting last week on the build-up of US military forces targeting Iran, Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, got it right : ‘This represents 40-50% of the deployable US air power in the world. Think air power on the order of the 1991 and 2003 Iraq ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Drop Site News has a new article out which includes incredibly disturbing witness accounts of the carnage from a double-tap airstrike by the US-Israel alliance on a densely populated part of Tehran. Here’s an...

Iran could easily end up mired in civil war like Syria, Afghanistan or Libya, a prospect the US and Israel have ignored, a former UK ambassador to Iran has warned.  Sir Richard Dalton, Britain’s top official in Tehran from 2003 to 2006, said the break up of Iran could see regime supporters t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US-Israeli war on Iran rages on. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed . Iran has been hammering US military bases in the region with missiles and drones, and oil prices are already beginning to rise ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US and Israel have launched their long-planned attack on Iran. President Trump said in a speech that the US military is engaged in “major combat operations” intended to cripple Iran’s military and topple t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now White House officials reportedly want Israel to provoke Iran into attacking US military bases in the region, because it will make Americans more willing to go to war. Politico reports : “Senior advisers to P...