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Behind the Headlines/July 31

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:

Anti-government protest demonstrations and marches return to some major Iranian cities

Iran’s economy is further hit by more cases of corruptions by regime’s officials

Why the flight of capital still continues in Iran?

Has the regime lost its hope of surviving the current crisis?

More praise for Reza Shah as protestors shout his name in Isfahan

Our guests to discuss these topics tonight are Foad Pashaie and Mohammad Ali Toufighi.

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The Ugly Destination Of Trump’s Iran Policy

The MEK’s Maryam Rajavi with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani

by Paul R. Pillar

President Trump’s belligerent, all-caps tweet about Iran this past weekend is hardly a natural response to anything the Iranians have been saying or doing lately. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani did make a speech on Sunday in which he stated, “America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” while advising Trump that “to play with the lion’s tail” would become a source of “regret.” So, Rouhani was saying that he wants peace with America and that moving toward war would be a bad idea. Hardly the stuff that ordinarily would provoke a flaming riposte. Read More »

Islamist Hardliners Are Threatening Iran’s Very Survival

by Shireen T. Hunter

Since last year, Iran’s economy has seriously deteriorated as speculators have rushed to exchange national currency for dollars while others, fearing more troubles to come, have been moving their capital out of the country. Close to $30 billion has reportedly left the country since the currency crisis began. Read More »

How the Neocon Plan to Destabilize Iran Will Blow Back on the United States

A destabilized Iran would make post-invasion Iraq look like Disney World by comparison.

By Juan Cole 26 July 2018

Former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer has come on television to advocate the destabilization of Iran, on the grounds that it would improve the lives of Iranians and perhaps lead to the end of what he called its “theological regime.” Fleischer, who was for eight and a half years a chief propagandist for the catastrophic US war on and occupation of Iraq, appears to have learned nothing (and those who book him on national television seem to have learned less). He was taking advantage of the saber rattling against Tehran being conducted by the Trump administration. Read More »