Iran Review | Pepe Escobar: Iran after the revolution was all about social justice. It set up a very elaborate health care network, similar to Cubas, but with more funding. A large hospital network. When the coronavirus hit, the US was even preventing Iran to get test kits. Yet the system not the private sector managed. There was no full shutdown....

Sputnik - The first three of five Iranian gasoline tankers have arrived in Venezuela, representing a deepening solidarity between two countries that both face crippling US sanctions, an Iranian US expert told Radio Sputnik Wednesday. He compared it to the pivotal 1956 Suez crisis, which exposed the extent of Franco-British imperial decline. The ...

Sputnik - The US government can expect continued military resistance in the Middle East as long as it continues its illegal occupation of Iraq, Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran, told Sputnik. The US on Thursday conducted retaliatory strikes against Iraqi Shia paramilitary ...

FNA - Social networking websites Facebook and Instagram both disabled the accounts of renowned Tehran University Professor and analyst Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Saturday in yet another low for the freedom of expression in the US that has already shut down social media pages of tens of Iranian analysts and officials. My accounts on Facebook and Instagram ...

Sputnik - Six months after Donald Trump announced the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Washington is proposing to sign a new agreement with Tehran. The US is ready togive a whole lot tosign a new treaty withIran that would take intoaccount all ofWashingtons concerns, including Tehrans missile program, the US Special ...

RT - US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haleys assertion that Iran is the biggest issue for the US today is ridiculous and Washington has much bigger foreign and domestic issues to be worried about, experts told RT. In an interview with the Fox & Friends morning show, Haley said that Americans do need to be worried about Iran because the country ...

BBC - US President Donald Trump is behaving like a mafia boss over there-imposition of sanctions on Iranand withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranian political analyst Prof Mohammad Marandi has said. Speaking toBBC HardtalksStephen Sackur, Prof Marandi admitted that the Iranian economy will face difficulties but it will stabilise within ...

Sputnik - Last week the US reimposed its first round of sanctions on Iran with more economic sanctions aimed at Iran's oil industry to follow in November. This comes after US President Donald Trump announced his decision in May to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement. Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, fromthe University ofTehran, told ...

Middle East Eye | Seyed Mohammad Marandi: As the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Republic approaches, Washington's Captain Ahab-like obsession with Iran grows ever deeper. "Possessed by all the fallen angels", Ahab's chief mate could not shake his captain's fixation on The Whale. Like Ahab, the unholy trinity of Donald Trump, John Bolton and Mike ...

RT- If President Trump is honest in ending extremism, he has to stop supporting the Saudi war in Yemen, promoting Wahhabism as an ideology, and funding extremist groups, said Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, political analyst at the University of Tehran. Tens of thousands of people have been gathering in several cities in Iran to mark the anniversary ...

Sputnik News- A key agreement on the Iranian nuclear program is the result of the collective efforts of six international negotiators rather than the exclusive achievement of outgoing US President Barack Obama, Iranian expert Seyed Mohammad Marandi told Sputnik Persian. In an interview with Sputnik Persian, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian expert ...

Press TV has interviewed Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, about the importance of Irans defensive drills amid threats from the United States and its allies. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: Lets start off with your views on the significance of these drills. Marandi: Well, I think ...

While the US and its allies are supporting, directly or indirectly, terrorist groups, there is little room for improvement in relations between Iran and the US, says Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran. Russian naval strikes caused some concern in the West, which is conducting its own anti-ISIL air campaign in Syria. However,...

Powerful forces in France along with the US administration dont want a nuclear deal with Iran; they have an interest in tension with it, says Seyed Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. They are supported by Saudis and Israel as well, he added. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Paris will not support the deal if Iran refuses nuclear ...

Western governments, their Middle Eastern allies, and many major media outlets have much in common with Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Similarly, in the lexicon of western powers and their regional partners, the meaning ...

Tehran, Jan 8, IRNA - Iranians remain profoundly sceptical of US intentions and professed determination to degrade and destroy ISIL, suggests Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. The Iranian scholar's views carried by Aljaeera.com follows: 'Western pundits ...

Tehran, Nov 15, IRNA The UK daily "The Guardians" said Iranians and multinationals are hungry for nuclear deal that will end sanctions. In an article on Friday, the daily referred to the last week gathering outside the former US embassys compound in Tehran to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats were held ...

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, to discuss the situation in Iran. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview. Press TV:Lets weigh in on the comments made by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was in New York for the nuclear talks. He spoke of ...

The United States is attempting to exert as much pressure on Iran as possible but its efforts to use sanctions as a tool against the Iranian people are becoming weaker and weaker, a political analyst tells Press TV. This of course is not something that is going to happen overnight, but at the end of the day the United States cannot continue to use ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The upcoming CICA summit will lend strength to Iran in its struggle against sanctions imposed by the West and bring more hope in breaking the nuclear standoff, an Iranian expert said. The Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, to be held in Shanghai on May 20-21, will give Iran more strength ...