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Ariel Gold & Medea Benjamin Just as talks between the United States and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Reports are that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, was behind the attack that blacked out the facility just one day after Tehran launched new advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges, and as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in Israel speaking about the United States’ “enduring and ironclad”...

Antiwar.com Original Just as talks between the United States and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Reports are that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, was behind the attack that blacked out the facility just one day after Tehran launched new advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges, and as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in Israel speaking about the United States’ “enduring and...

NationofChange The hawks who want war with Iran are working overtime As the saboteurs of diplomacy hope for a violent escalation, let’s keep in mind, and hope Iran agrees, that the best revenge would be a revived JCPOA. Just as talks between the U.S. and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack was carried out on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Reports are that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, was behind the attack that blacked out the facility just o...

Will Natanz sabotage derail Iran nuclear talks? Was the mysterious sabotage at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility this Sunday the straw that will break the back of America’s renewed push for a deal with Tehran? Only days after the Iranians proudly unveiled 164 advanced new centrifuges at Natanz — of a type prohibited under the nuclear deal — a power blackout struck the facility, putting it out of commission for at least nine months. The head of Iran’s atomic energy agency described the ...

AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi in his hospital bed after falling into the Natanz crater. Who knew a devastating attack on a nuclear plant could have its slapstick moment? Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told reporters on Monday that the explosion in the Natanz plant created a big crater, so big that he had fallen into it and injured his head, back, leg, and arm. And there was an unmistaken admiration on the part of some Iranians for the da...

SHARE Even as the US denies any involvement in the attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear site at the weekend, the action is likely to complicate US-Iran talks, but it will not sabotage them altogether, experts said on Monday. A US State Department official told The National that the US was not involved in the attack, though the official did not point to a possible culprit. Henry Rome and Jeffrey Wright of the Eurasia analysis group saw Iran’s need for sanctions relief as something that will lik...

White House faces tough task of tearing down Iran sanctions wall to save nuclear deal In Trumps final days, the White House introduced a slew of new sanctions aimed at hindering a return to the nuclear deal. Yet since the designations were so blatantly politicized, the risk of undoing them is politically manageable. Iranian Foreign Ministry official Abbas Araghchi leaves the Grand Hotel Wien after closed-door nuclear talks with the European Union, China and Russia in Vienna on April 9, 2...

Netanyahu speaking about Iran at Israel’s Holocaust Memorial, April 7, 2021. Screenshot from his Facebook page. As the Iran-US talks proceed in Vienna, there are clear signs that both countries want to reenter the Iran deal. And there are indications that Israel, which opposes the deal more strenuously than any country in the world, has been sidelined and is not being consulted on the talks. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu used a speech at the Israeli Holocaust memorial to warn the wo...

By Dave Gahary George Orwell once said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” That ominous warning was clearly on display last month when Philip Giraldi—one of the heavyweights who has been able to cross the line between the alternative media and the established media—was banned from writing for The American Conservative magazine, where he had been a contributor since its inception, because they didn’t like an article he wrote—no...

In March 2017, former Obama administration official Anne-Marie Slaughter told Colin Kahl, now President Joe Biden's nominee for a top Pentagon post, that his lacerating Twitter broadsides were contributing to "the degradation of the public discourse."