Tag: iran

YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...

IN his press conference yesterday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad revealed, with the US commander, General Casey standing next to him, that...

The US economy is at the centre of the worldwide capitalist economic crisis. It is in slump, with major industries, such as the motor car...

A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...

SENATOR Warner, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee concluded, after his recent visit to Iraq, that the US game was...

YESTERDAY North Korea shook the imperialist powers who had assumed that the workers state would not dare to proceed to test a nuclear weapon. North...

LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...

‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...

LAST Friday Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addressed in person a victory rally in Lebanon. ‘Brothers and sisters, Ladies and Gentlemen. On...

HOME Secretary John Reid was denounced as a ‘tyrant’ on a visit to east London yesterday, where he delivered a speech against ‘Islamic extremism’. A...

LABOUR’S Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted yesterday that the Taleban resistance movement in Afghanistan is making NATO’s attempt to control the country ‘harder than...

‘WE were the first to call for a united, unified, fully sovereign, independent, free, and lofty Lebanon where the state and the government represent...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...

YESTERDAY Premier Blair could not raise a single clap for his answers to questions about his privatisation drive in the public sector, in the...

ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...

THE chickens are coming home to roost for British imperialism, as the mounting casualty figures in both Afghanistan and Iraq show. It is a long...

In his Utah speech to army veterans last Thursday, US President Bush threatened Iran with ‘consequences’, adding that the US will step up its...

The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is under pressure to authorise an independent commission of inquiry into the conduct of the recently failed war in...

THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...

Supreme spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran will press on with its nuclear work. State television quoted Khamenei as saying:...

The show trial in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone of captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and six other co-defendants continued yesterday, over the so-called Anfal...

IRAQI President Saddam Hussein, seized by US occupation forces after the invasion of the country, yesterday refused to recognise the authority of the court...

DESPITE the recent heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in trying to penetrate southern Lebanon, the objective of the US administration, its Israeli...

THE Syrian newspaper Al Thawra has warned that the US is beefing up its forces in Iraq in preparation for an attack on Syria. ...

EARLY yesterday morning 21 people were arrested and charged under the various terrorism acts, while Scotland Yard said that the 21 were engaged in...

BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...

At least eleven Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were injured, some seriously, yesterday when a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit...

‘Bush, Blair terrorists!’ shouted workers and youth last Saturday as they passed the American embassy in central London on a 100,000-strong demonstration against the...

THE Lebanese government yesterday rejected the UN draft resolution on the Lebanon. The Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies, Nabih Birri, said that it...

PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...

All Israeli troops must leave Lebanon before we can accept a ceasefire, Hezbollah said yesterday as its fighters battled an Israeli force of 10,000...

The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One...

THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to...

Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...

LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...

Tens of thousands of people across the UK took part last Saturday in demonstrations against the murderous Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. Eleven rallies...

Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...

Lebanese President Emile Lahud has vowed to stand by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. As Israeli jets continued their murderous air strikes on the...

NABIH BERRI, the Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies, has condemned the role of the United Nations in the Lebanon after an Israeli...

‘It’s true we have had people who got themselves into difficulty and ministers been dismissed. We’ve had huge problems on this front,’ Prime Minister...

YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...

THE former Labour Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, yesterday continued with his campaign to restore his alleged political reputation. He says that this was...

THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...