Just like many Trump supporters, U.S. liberal intellectuals exist in a fantasy world in which a leading purveyor of “international terrorism” – the U.S. government – is perceived as a fundamentally benign force, Noam Chomsky told RT.
“Just as you can’t get the Republican mobs to admit that the election was lost, you can’t get liberal American intellectuals to recognize that the United States is a leading terrorist state,” Chomsky told RT’s, Chris Hedges.
The facts are that for almost the entirety
An Iraqi legislator has warned against the Unites States’ attempts to disrupt peace and security in the Middle East through supporting terrorism, saying Washington is even ready to set entire Iraq on fire so it can keep its military forces in the Arab country.
Karim Alaiwi, a legislator from the Fatah (Conquest) alliance and a member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi legislature, told Arabic-language Baghdad Today warned against the policies of new US President Joe Biden towards
A twin suicide bombing took place in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing more than 32 people and wounding at least 110 others, the country's health ministry said.
The rare suicide bombing hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad amid heightened political tensions over planned early elections and a severe economic crisis. Blood smeared the floors of the busy market amid piles of clothes and shoes as survivors took stock of the disarray in the aftermath. No one immediately took
The US Department of State has initiated a review of the designation of the rebel Houthi movement as a terrorist organization and is working as fast as it can to make a determination, a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.
"As noted by Secretary-Designate Blinken, the State Department has initiated a review of Ansarallah's [Houthi] terrorist designations," the spokesperson said on Friday. "We will not publicly discuss or comment on internal deliberations regarding that review
A number of high-ranking officials in Yemen's National Salvation Government have censured the administration of former US President Donald Trump over designating the Houthi Ansarullah movement as a foreign terrorist organization, saying the move clearly shows that Washington is not after establishment of peace and stability in the war-torn country.
Hussein Maqbouly, Vice President for Services and Development Affairs, said the US move to blacklist the popular Ansarullah movement — which went
Syria’s deputy foreign minister says terrorist groups are covered by US troops illegally based in his country to launch attacks on Syrian soldiers and civilians, calling for international cooperation led by the United Nations to curb them.
Bashar al-Ja'afari, who is also Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, made the remarks Thursday in a statement to a UN Security Council session on the situation in Syria via a video link.
He stressed that on top of the terror organizations being helped
Arguing that Trump is unlikely to end up in jail, Scaramucci suggested that stripping the outgoing President of the “powers of an ex-president” might be a “good start”.
Former White House communications director Antony Scaramucci said that he would love to see Trump “go to jail”, comparing the US president to Timothy McVeigh, the man responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the biggest terrorist act on US soil prior to 9/11, which killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others.
Albanian media reported conflicts between residents of the town of Manëz and a group of Mujahedin over the suspected land seizure in the region.
According to the international service of the Habilian analytical news agency, Albanian media, including the Shqiptarja, reported widespread dissatisfaction and serious concern among the residents of Manëz near Tirana where the MKO camp is located.
In a report by the Shqiptarja entitled "The Uneasy Coexistence with the Mujahedin-e Khalq: Iranians
A former UN human rights rapporteur commented on the assassinations of Brigadier General Haj Qassem Soleimani and Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and said that those two terrorist acts by America and Israel were based on colonial war patterns and have in a way turned the entire world into a potential war front.
According to the IRNA correspondent in London, prominent analyst of international laws in Princeton University, Professor Richard Anderson Falk made the comment in a Conference on Goal-Oriented
Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, on Saturday rejected U.S. allegations of Iran's link with al-Qaeda, saying Iran itself is a serious victim of terrorism and a pioneer in the fight against terrorism.
Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Zakharova said there is a lot of evidence suggesting Iran's serious efforts to counter terrorists, particularly in Syria and Iraq.
Zakharova also noted that the U.S. officials' silence about Iran's effective fight
Iran's Foreign Ministry has vowed to prosecute the perpetrators behind assassination of top IRGC commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and denounced the US for committing "Craven act of terror" against the top counter- terrorism commander.
In a tweet on Friday on the occasion of the first anniversary of general Soleimani’s assassination near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the ministry said Washington’s terrorist act was carried out in blatant violation of international law, the United
A top prosecutor in Iran has accused U.K. security company G4S of being involved in the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, the state-run Mizan Online reported.
The company has rejected the claim as “completely unfounded.”
Ali Al-Qasi Mehr said G4S, which provides security at Baghdad airport, “was responsible for securing flights” at the airport and “as soon as General Soleimani and his party arrived, elements in the company provided information about them to the terrorists,” according to Mizan
Iran's Embassy to Denmark in a statement on Wednesday marking first martyrdom anniversary of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani said that assassination of the commander is a flagrant violation of international law.
When the US government assassination of General Qasem Soleimani was first announced, US President Donald Trump, boasted the attack had taken place on his order and took credit for the extra-judicial killing of a top official of a sovereign state in the capital of another sovereign
Abdul Latif Pedram, the leader of Afghanistan’s National Congress Party (NCP) said on Monday that the US terrorist attack to assassinate Iranian Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani was a blatant violation of international law and a crime against Iranian national sovereignty.
Speaking to IRNA few days ahead of the martyrdom anniversary of General Soleimani, the Afghan politician said that the terror attack is not forgivable by any means and has to be prosecuted at international bodies.
He
Chinese Ambassador to Iran voiced Beijing’s readiness to work with the international community, including Iran, to jointly tackle terrorism under the new circumstances.
Currently, the global fight against terrorism has made important progress. However, terrorist activities remain rampant, the breeding ground is yet to be eradicated. Frequent terrorist attacks around the world remind us that terrorism has never gone away. International counter-terrorism cooperation still has a long way to go and
Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi respond to allegations that the Mojahedeen, MEK, #FreeIran, #MaryamRajavi cult command which is based in Albania makes against these two Albanian journalists. They reveal how MEK threatens journalists in Albania. MEK like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, PKK, Jahbat al-Nusra, PJAK is a violent organisation of Foreign Fighters. It is hosted in Albania and from there it wages media war against Iran, Iraq and a number of other countries.
However, the organisation has many internal
Reports reveal that ten MEK members have died of COVID-19 in Albania since the first week of November. This indicates an outbreak of the coronavirus in Camp Ashraf 3. In 2016, as they were given refuge on humanitarian grounds, the Albanian government gave assurances that the MEK would receive full medical care. Since then, the MEK leaders have imprisoned the members in the closed camp and do not allow Albanian authorities to enter.
From the start of the pandemic, the MEK have refused to
The first issue of The Watchlist, a monthly produced by researchers at Habilian Association (representative of families of the Iranian victims of terrorism), has been released.
The periodical provides the audience with information, reports and documents related to terrorist groups operating in Iran and West Asia region as well as their history in order to raise awareness, and caution the elite against the dangers of terrorism and violent extremism.
important topics mentioned in this issue are
A Chilean analyst of Middle East issues says he believes that the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian nuclear and defense scientist done with full US support attempted to provoke Iran into conflict and instabilit.
Nicola Hadwa said that the other aim of the assassination was to make it hard for the next US government to return to the deal.
Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Deputy Minister of Defense and Head of the Research and Innovation Organization of the Ministry of Defense of Iran, who was
Chairman of Russian Duma's International Affairs Committee called assassination of nuclear and defense scientist ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’ as example of state terrorism.
Speaking in his meeting with Iran’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation Kazem Jalali on Wed., Konstantin Kasachov called on Tehran to start an investigation to prove the involvement of foreign forces in the terror attack on ‘Fakhrizadeh’.
He expressed condolences to the Iranian nation on the assassination of nuclear scientist