Editor's Note: One of the Axis reader comments below raises an important question. Please note that the Washington Post did not publish their poll results until after the Iranian election. As a result of this omission and of other western media propaganda, unrealistic expectations of a victory were created for Mousavi supporters. Those western-nurtured expectations are... » read this article

June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg   What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as... » read this article

Lenin's Red State Tomb Lenin, the proprietor of the well visited British Lenin's Tomb blog, sometimes has some useful leftist thoughts and activism posts. He is on my blogroll for that reason. Lenin's real name, advertised at his own side, is Richard Seymour. He wrote a book: Following the collapse of the... » read this article

Following the announcement of victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his main opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi in Iran’s presidential election on June 12, the country erupted in turmoil as supporters of Mousavi flocked to the streets to protest what they claimed was a fraudulent election, while state security and militia forces... » read this article

Iran’s most visible leaders, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i are on the brink of losing their respective offices in the wake of the controversial presidential election in Iran June 12. Should this happen, many sectors of the American punditocracy will be thoroughly embarrassed. Having built these... » read this article

In this my first week back in North America, I was reminded that there are two Americas: a decent caring one and one of delusion.  This is as if there are two trains heading to different destinations.  The hypocrisy train has big PR budgets, has a huge lobby that managed... » read this article

25 June 2009 President Obama’s declaration, in his June 23 press conference, that he was “appalled and outraged” by the Iranian government’s reaction to protests over Iran’s presidential election results represents an escalation of US pressure on the clerical regime in Tehran. This direct statement, which he suggested was motivated... » read this article

Having watched the situation in Iran now for several years through to the current protests by the dissident citizens of the country unsatisfied with the election results, I remain as perplexed as ever.  Not the perplexity of not understanding what is actually going on as there are enough news sources... » read this article

The US media, led by the New York Times , is continuing its concerted propaganda campaign against Iran over charges that the government stole the June 12 presidential election. There is not even a semblance of objectivity in the media coverage, which parrots the charges of the opposition headed by... » read this article

It's the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can offer the most hyperbolic denunciation of... » read this article

He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.   Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s,... » read this article

During the 1960s and 1970s, people around the world marched, sat-in, wrote letters, etc. in an effort to get the United States to withdraw from Vietnam. This was not meddling in the internal affairs of the US; it was a protest against internal meddling in Vietnam by the United States.... » read this article

Amid claims of a 'rigged-election' by certain defeated Iranian presidential candidates, a top election official says the box -by-box details of the vote will be released. "During previous elections in the Islamic Republic, statistics concerning individual ballot boxes were considered  confidential information … this kind of information was only available... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We've observed a number of writers, websites and organisations on the left of the political spectrum dismiss U.S./Israeli involvement in the attacks on Iran's June presidential election. One of their arguments is embodied in simplistic statements like, "Iranians aren't stupid enough to let Washington influence them", or "You can't bribe that many... » read this article

From Axis of Logic Correspondent, Cherifa Sirry in Egypt: "Nice to know that the the level of political awareness in the US has definitely changed.  Please read this interesting post from "Citizens for Legitimate Government" regarding the events in Iran.  If you scroll down there is also James Petras' EXCELLENT article... » read this article

A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Tehran. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events. The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was... » read this article

Sunday, 21 June 2009 Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows by Paul Craig Roberts Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British... » read this article

20 June 2009 With an uncompromising speech at Friday’s prayers, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set the stage for a potentially bloody confrontation with opposition leaders demanding a re-run of the June 12 presidential election. Tens of thousands have joined daily opposition protests in Tehran and other cities... » read this article

Say I am You I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun. To the bits of dust I say, Stay. To the sun, Keep moving. I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening. I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.... » read this article

As the world watches, massive demonstrations in Iran - some say the largest since the 1979 Revolution - are denouncing the results of the June 12 presidential election. Official announcements that incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad garnered nearly 63 percent of the vote are being met with cries of "fraud" by... » read this article