Mohammad Ali Shabani, based in Tehran, has written an important piece at al Jazeera on the effect of the US-led international sanctions on Iran. He opens by describing a man named Hassan who is suffering from cancer but cannot get the medicine needed to fight it. His...

One of Mitt Romney's top campaign advisors (and potential Secretary of State if Obama loses) has such inadequate understanding of the Iranian issue, and is so belligerently wrong on the fundamentals, that it should frighten any observer of the 2012 race. In his latest...

The Israeli government's study that this week found the occupation of Palestinian territories to actually not be an occupation and Israel's settlement activity to actually not be illegal is the worst kind of absurdity. Its Nixon-esque declarations are such an affront...

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Via ThinkProgress, Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested today for the crime of insulting the monarchy in a tweet. He is expected to be in jail for up to 3 months, but knowing the US-supported Bahraini regime's penchant for torture, Rajab could be...

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has published a must-read interview with Yemeni-American journalist Hakim Almasmari, "a reporter for CNN and editor of the Yemen Post." Hakim is on the ground in Yemen and says that civilian casualties are systematically...

With apologies to Don McLean: A new video from LiveLeaks shows an AH64 Apache attack helicopter targeting farmers in the Wardak Province, Afghanistan while they were planting poppy seeds. The pilot cheerfully sings a little tune after firing a Hellfire missile at...

Following news that Israel is refusing to cooperate with UN investigations into illegal settlement building in the West Bank, this illustrative exchange between State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland and AP reporter Matt Lee (via Mondoweiss) VICTORIA NULAND:...