The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive at others. 

Tony Blair's claim that "nobody's talking about military intervention in respect of Iran" is reminiscent of his duplicity in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

The most important lesson about the Iraq War for reporters was perhaps the simplest one: Don't assume the White House is telling the truth. It's a lesson that many reporters seem to be forgetting now that U.S. officials are escalating their claims about Iran's role in Iraq.

George W. Bush’s speech presenting his "new" Iraq strategy marked it clearly: he denounced the Iranian operations in Iraqi territory, announced the possible pursuits of "enemies" in the country and made it known that he is refusing all dialogue with Iran.

The US president’s threatening speech against Iran, and the provocative raid of American military units on an office building in Irbil where Iranian government officials worked, and the detention of five office staff in the recent days, are worrying developments for all progressive and national forces of our country.

On the morning of November 19, security agents of the Supreme Leader regime, arrested Mansour Ossanlou the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tehran and Suburbs Public Transit Union once again and sent him to jail.

It is said that there is more than one way to skin a cat. It seems that United States is trying to skin this cat –Iran- in anyway that it can, including economic strangulation.

Iran's women's liberation movement, with a century of struggle history, steadily and confidently open its way in the society. Decades after Constitution Revolution (1906) hundreds of periodicals and books and tens of web sites and web logs and women's columns in printed media, challenge the anti-women regime of the Supreme Leader and patriarchal society in various forms.

Finally, after weeks of tension and commotion, municipal elections and mid-term parliamentary elections were held in Iran. Disqualifying hundreds of independent and dissident candidates, along with intensifying the suppressive pressure on labour and student movements in Iran over the weeks prior to election.

If the U.S. or Israel attack Iranian nuclear power facilities "huge amounts of radioactive material will be lofted into the air to contaminate the people of Iran and surrounding countries," an eminent international authority on nuclear weapons warns.

If only reality were as easy to cope with as television. In our not so simple world forces of social progress sometimes fight against other forces of social progress, imperialism sometimes fights reaction, political coalitions are ad hoc and messy and there are victories, defeats, many zig zags and many one steps forward, two steps backward.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, which I am not, I would say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's far right president, was an agent provocateur of the Bush administration, working to isolate his country from the civilized world and set the stage for a military attack on it.

One of the key features of the world today is that it is gripped with war, militarism, terrorism, exploitation, poverty and hunger as never before. And it is important to acknowledge the interdependence of all these tragic consequences of the dominance of capitalism in our world today.

Predicting political events is almost a sure way to make a fool of yourself. The situation in the world changes too quickly and is too difficult to know in sufficient detail for any “expert’s” prediction to be much better than an ordinary person’s guess.

As incredible as it might seem, the Bush Administration appears to be actively planning a military strike against Iran - the beginning of a war which could dwarf even the Iraq war in its grim potential for devastating global conflict.

The threat of war and conflict is dominating life in the Middle East. The US, the EU and their NATO allies use war and military coercion as their main tools to subjugate their opponents.

A majority of Americans supported attacking Iraq, but now a majority of Americans say it was the wrong thing to do and that they were lied to.  If you are among those who supported the attack on Iraq but now believe you were mistaken, then you have one step up on our president.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the Bush administration is planning another unprovoked war, this time against Iran--a country nearly three times the size of Iraq, with a long history, a strong sense of national identity and nationalism, and a well-equipped and well-trained army.

As for the United States, it is the duty of its citizens and grassroots organizations somehow to force the Bush administration, as well as future administrations, to show an aversion to the use of force and violent regime change.

The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or intentional misrepresentations of the true nature of the escalating conflict, can be utterly misleading.