Iran:  December 2017-January 2018

• "The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location."  CounterPunch, 01/24/2018.
• "How the Mass Media Misread the Iranian Protests."  CounterPunch, 01/24/2018.
• "The MEK:  From Revolutionary Group to Imperialist Asset."  MintPress, 01/24/2018.
• "A 'Blue' Generation and Protests in Iran."  MERIP, 01/22/2018.
• "A Rare Glimpse Into the Inner Workings of American Empire in the Middle East."  MintPress, 01/22/2018.
• "The Destabilizer: Trump's Escalating Threats Against Iran."  CounterPunch, 01/18/2018.
• "When the US Pledged Not to Intervene in Iran's Internal Affairs."  MintPress, 01/18/2018.
• "Rex Tillerson Rewrites Syria, Ultimately Blames Iran, Essentially Declares War."  MintPress, 1/18/2018.
• "Civil Unrest Coming Soon to Saudi Arabia: What You're Not Being Told."  AntiMedia, 01/17/2018.
• "The Media's Wildly Different Take in Tunisia and Iran."  MintPress, 01/15/2016.
• "Fabricating a War on Iran."  CounterPunch/LeMonde Diplomatique, 01/10/2018.
• DemocracyNow Interview with Norma Finkelstein on the Middle East:  here, here, and here.  01/10/2018.
• "What the Iran Protests Were Not."  TheAtlantic, 01/10/2018.
• "CIA's New 'Iran Mission Center' Created for Regime Change."  PopularResistance.org, 01/09/2018.
• "Thoughts About Iran on Twelfth Night."  CounterPunch, 01/09/2018.
• "Iran Protests: Pulling Back The Curtain of Mainstream Media Propaganda."  MintPress/Liberation News, 01/08/2018
• "What Do Most Iranians Think?: Very Unhappy About the Economy and Trump, but Not Much Else."  Huffpost, 01/08/2018.
• "Iranians Can Do Without Bill Kristol's Solidarity."  Jacobin, 01/05/2018.
• "Iran and the Left: a Dissenting View."  CounterPunch, 01/05/2018.
• "Time to Wake Up: Viewing the Protests From Inside Iran."  CounterPunch, 01/05/2018.
• "Behind the Iran Protests."  Jacobin, 01/04/2018.
• "Why is Trump's Man in Iran, Michael D'Andrea, Missing from Conversations About the Protests?"  Independent, 01/04/2018.
• "Birth Of An Insurgency: The US-Israeli "Secret Deal" To Manipulate Protests In Iran."  MintPress, 01/03/2018.
• "Why there won't be a revolution in Iran."  Asia Times, 01/03/2018.
• "Rouhani hopes to ride the wave of Iran's turmoil."  Asia Times, 01/03/2018.
• "Everything the Media Isn't Telling You About the Protests Rocking Iran Right Now."  AntiMedia, 01/02/2018.
• "US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria."  MintPress, 01/02/2018.

Background Material

• "CIA's New Iran Chief Signals Trump Hard-Line Stance."  thedailybeat, Summer 2017.
• "The CIA and Islamic State: Iran's twin threats."  Middle East Eye, 06/16/2017.
• "Iran terror attack: Who gains?"  Middle East Eye, 06/08/2017.
• "Outing the CIA's `Undertaker' Michael D'Andrea."  Newsweek, 06/28/2016
• "Geological Problematics of Polity in Iran."  BBCPersian, 01/07/2018.

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