by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2025 Real World News [Updated, March 17, 1:30 pm EST] Warning that “hell will rain down upon” the Houthi terrorist organization, President Donald Trump ordered strikes against the Iran-backed group on Sunday. The Houthis claimed at least 31 people were killed in Sunday’s strikes. On March 17, Trump underlined that […]
FPI / March 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Iran has been adamant about not wanting to open diplomatic channels with U.S. President Donald Trump. But the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be pressed to abandon that stance if Trump works out some kind of deal with one of Iran’s top allies, Russia. In fact, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 20, 2025 A series of widening wars, growing humanitarian crises and simmering foreign conflicts are among the list of foreign policy/security woes confronting President Donald Trump. From day one of his administration the president must assess and prioritize U.S. policy interests in key regions both on the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk A detail generally overlooked in all we’ve been reading about the misfired Iranian missile that brought down the Ukraine airliner with 176 people aboard: It was almost certainly made in North Korea and sold to Iran or made in Iran from a North Korean design and technology. The relationship […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The killing of Qasem Soleimani by an American drone aircraft on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump as the Iranian general arrived in Baghdad to spur on Iran-backed Iraqi militia against the U.S. confronts Kim Jong-Un with serious problems. The first is that North Korea cannot publicize the episode […]
Sol W. Sanders Perhaps the most difficult intellectual problem of human consciousness always has been sorting out perception, what seems to be, and reality, what is actually true. It is clear that the digital revolution has intensified the conundrum. For the internet is a constant flood of false evidence but dressed in a seeming […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi Currently the Middle East is in a state of upheaval from which it may never truly recover. Politically, the region as a whole is extremely unstable, as are several countries within the region. To ensure that permanent chaos does not ensue the United States and the Islamic Republic of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs There should be no ambiguity: the U.S. and the West suffered a transformative strategic reversal on Sept. 10, 2013, and Russia and Iran each separately made substantial strategic gains and consolidation as a consequence. But the pivotal decision of Sept. 10 by President Barack Obama […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The opposition has reported another underground nuclear facility in Iran. The Mujahadeen Khalq, known as MEK, reported a secret Iranian nuclear facility northeast of Teheran. In a statement, Mujahadeen, which disclosed Iran’s nuclear program more than a decade ago, said the latest facility consisted of tunnels beneath a mountain near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi One may not even go to a newspaper stand in the morning for coffee-n-donut without being shocked and annoyed at mainstream media ignorance and/or skewed propaganda posing as international news. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a non-Iranian government and has nothing to do with “Classic Iran” (the real […]
