Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says political divisions and polarization have put the United States on a downward spiral with every new president leaving a weaker nation behind than the preceding one. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting on Tuesday with the heads of Irans three branches of government,...

Press TV - Irans foreign minister faults US President Donald Trumps apparent differentiation between favorable and unfavorable warfare, denouncing all instances of aggressive military intervention and Washingtons warring and warmongering in the Middle East region. Mohammad Javad Zarifs remarks came in a Thursday tweet posted in reaction to an earlier ...

IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to attempts made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with regard to normalizing Sudan-Israel ties and the US criteria to remove a country from terror list, asking how can the world still take US foreign policy seriously? "Thanks to @SecPompeo, we now know criteria for a ...

RT - US President Donald Trump has declared that America will shift its focus from waging endless wars and being the policeman of the world, rehashing his 2016 campaign promises that were not fulfilled. The US is entering a crucial moment of its history, the president said as he addressed the US West Point Military Academy graduates in his commencement ...

RT | George Szamuely: President Donald Trump, if he is re-elected in November and no longer fearing desertion of his anti-interventionist supporters, may well shed his remaining inhibitions against embarking on new military adventures. A Trump second term, particularly if it is hamstrung by Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, is likely ...

IRNA The director of the Center for the Partnership of Civilizations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) said on Sunday that the US has already lost its mediation role in the international community. Veniamin Popov told IRNA that with proposing the Deal of the Century, Washington once again ignored the international ...

Sputnik - Oliver Stones films have won 12 Academy Awards including two for Best Director, as well as a bunch of Golden Globes and BAFTAs. His new focus is documentaries on Venezuela, Ukraine, and Edward Snowden all reflecting on the dubious activities of the US government both at home and abroad. Oliver Stone, the award-winning American director ...

RT - US President Donald Trump is no stranger to protest, but he may not have expected giant banners to great him as he flew over the Swiss cantons in his helicopter en route to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Upon learning that Trumps fleet of choppers would fly over his meadow ahead of the gathering in Davos, Hebi Dobler, 52, who ...

The Guardian | Mohamed El-Erian: Aggressive non-cooperation can be effective but only if used carefully The US president Donald Trumps authorisation of the targeted killing of the Iranian al-Quds force commander, Qassem Suleimani, is, in many ways, similar to his administrations approach to trade. In both cases, the administration has demonstrated ...

The Guardian | Michael H Fuchs: Trump hopes that his dangerous, self-serving actions will be normalized by sheer force and volume. We must push back After three years of dangerously and unnecessarily escalating tensions with Iran, Donald Trump rang in the new year by creating a crisis that almost started a war with Iran and still very well could....

The Guardian | Ed Pilkington: There has been no shortage of US attempts to remove foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means The US government is no stranger to the dark arts of political assassinations. Over the decades it has deployed elaborate techniques against its foes, from dispatching a chemist armed with lethal poison ...

Graham Fuller - A former senior CIA official, author of numerous books on the Muslim World; his first novel is Breaking Faith: A novel of espionage and an Americans crisis of conscience in Pakistan The United States, through its assassination of top-ranking Iranian General Qasim Soleimani, has once again opened Pandoras box in its conduct of foreign ...

The Guardian | Julian Borger: Donald Trumps approach to the world is little more than a tangle of personal interests, narcissism and Twitter outbursts The new decade is about to start under many shadows, but none is more ominous than North Koreas threat to return to nuclear and long-range missile tests after a two-year lull. Pyongyangs pendulum ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: US President Donald Trump faces one of the biggest challenges to his presidency, in the form of congressional impeachment accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of US Congress. Much as Trump and his allies have sought to minimize the importance of this development as a "hoax" and or "witch hunt," the ...

Press TV - Iran says inference in the domestic affairs of other countries has turned into a fundamental principle of the American foreign policy, saying Washington cannot give legitimacy to its shameless foreign policy through hijacking concepts of human rights. Following [its] withdrawal from [several] international treaties [which is construed] ...

Press TV - Iran has condemned the USs interference in the affairs of Bolivia as well as coup dtat-style action against the South American countrys legal president, who was recently forced to resign and leave the homelandunder pressure from the army amid violent post-election protests. Any forceful change of governments outside legal frameworks, ...

MNA Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaie said that the US government cannot show itself as a defender of democracy and human rights through media propaganda. He made the remarks on the sidelines of Nov. 4 rallies in Tehran. The global arrogance is trying to show itself as a defender of democracy and human rights with its many media ...

The National Interest | Steven R. Kopits: President Donald Trump has sixty days to prevent tensions with Iran from spinning out of control. Dissatisfied with the Iran nuclear deal signed under the Obama administration, Trump terminated U.S. participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement in 2018 and has since imposed maximum pressure ...

Foreign Policy |PETER E. HARRELL: Two and a half years into Donald Trumps presidency, there is no doubt that economic sanctions are his administrations foreign-policy weapon of choice. From China to Iran to Venezuela, sanctions and other coercive economic tools are central to Trumps maximum pressure campaigns against U.S. adversaries. But he is not ...

Tasnim An American political analyst said the firing of John Bolton as US national security adviser signifies that Trumps foreign policy is in chaos. Trumps foreign policy is in chaos because the war party sabotages every attempt he makes to negotiate a peaceful settlement to areas of conflict, E. Michael Jones, a political analyst in the US state ...