Martin Love
-
By: Martin Love
Trump and fellow gangsters look increasingly foolish
TEHRAN, Sep. 07 (MNA) –The maintenance of the notion that Iran’s leadership must remain steadfast and patient, as it has been since Donald Trump dumped US participation and support for the JCPOA and slammed Iran’s people with draconian sanctions, has never been more imperative, because it is in fact, however tortuous, a winning strategy.
-
By: By Martin Love
Cruelty and stupidity are the hallmarks of US moves this century
TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – One huge lie zipping around the Internet of late is the depiction of a map showing the (alleged) extent of the Persian “empire” in 300 BC, as it is labeled. It shows that the Achaemenid dynasty as empire controlling lands stretching from a small part of Europe west of the Bosporus across Anatolia to Bactria and what today is Pakistan and western India.
-
By: Martin Love
The Jeffrey Epstein case could sink US elites and induce real change
TEHRAN, Jul. 14 (MNA) – If anything can get worse, like the corruption among the powerful and wealthy in the US in recent decades, it just has. Epstein was returning from Paris on his private jet when the FBI nabbed him and charged him with various grave offenses that could land him in jail for the rest of his sordid life.
-
By: Martin Love
Cry not for hapless Trump: He created the current mess
NORTH CAROLINA, Jun. 30 (MNA) – No one can legitimately feel sorry for Donald Trump. For 14 months he’s been in way over his head in geopolitics, and that primarily about Iran, but with the various sanctions and threats cast upon every continent like confetti at a wedding everyone knows eventually is going fail and wind up in divorce court, Trump looks the clown to most all the world.
-
By: Martin Love
Iran, whatever it further suffers, is going to win in the longer term
TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) – To whom is Donald Trump answering? Ignorance at bottom. There is almost nothing he has not upset. He is like the proverbial bull in the world shop of china. But first, imagine. Imagine for example that Barack Obama had gotten a third term in the White House and carried on as President as he had during his second term.
-
By: Martin Love
Pity any nation that has veered from the moral messages of Islam or Christianity
TEHRAN, Apr. 06 (MNA) – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 99, and apparently still alive, is an American poet and publisher of books who got his start as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, where he majored in journalism and went on to a notable career as both a writer and painter.
-
By: Martin Love
Coexistence between Sunnis and Shias must be a prime goal
TEHRAN, Feb. 17 (MNA) – It may seem improbable but the very key to whether the world enjoys real (and somewhat relative, if not absolute) "peace" going forward, as well as the fate of the US as any kind of somewhat respected but former imperial (and absurdly imperious) power, depends on two things: the end of US disrespect for international laws, most evident in the “regime change” wars, and on the fate of the Palestinians and whether they are given civil rights and released from bondage in their own country.
-
By: Martin Love
Respect warranted for at least two bright Americans
TEHRAN, Feb. 13 (MNA) – One does not normally equate a person (who is retired now from decades in the CIA) as one with sound views and good instincts about the challenges to the world of a government that has been making – to put it simply – stupid moves and continues its errant ways under Donald Trump. But one such person is Philip Giraldi who writes articles outside the mainstream media about what he sees that is slowly destroying US credibility worldwide.
-
By Martin Love
In US one new NYT columnist just made a serious impact
TEHRAN, Jan. 26 (MNA) – The Power of the Press, provided it’s the right particular medium, packs at least an incipient punch. Take for example the so-called “newspaper of record” in the United States, the New York Times, which despite decades of obfuscations and bias in certain arenas such as the Middle East remains the one newspaper which, if the mainstream media were to be absolutely shunned, would probably be the last to meet that fate.
-
By: Martin Love
The recent liberalized scene at Azadi is a purely good, smart anodyne
TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (MNA) – Just to demonstrate how inaccurate and craven the US mainstream media can be, one must note a late-night news broadcast this week about the further carnage in the Gaza arena. The talking head commented that the Zionists responded with massive bombing runs on Gaza because Hamas sent flying 300 or so (ineffective) “firecracker” rockets in to Israel, and now Israel may be preparing another invasion of what amounts to the largest open-air prison on earth – an amplified and defenseless Warsaw Ghetto redux.
-
By: Martin Love
The world prays for wisdom and cool of Iranians
TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (MNA) – An Iranian friend, a photographer known internationally for fine documentary work, asked plaintively last week when the US might stop trying to sink Iran and Iranians. I had no ready answer, but the question was painful to hear because I could also hear concern, grief and empathy for others.
-
By: Martin Love
Ignorance is the bane of humanity
NORTH CAROLINA, Oct. 31 (MNA) – US citizens will likely not anytime soon hear the end of the horrible tale of the gunman who last week went into a Pittsburgh, Pa., synagogue and killed 11 Jews who were worshipping there.
-
By: Martin Love
A general overview of this era of discord
TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) – Yes, it is obvious. Iran and a number of other countries would be far better off today, economically and thus socially, if the US was not militarily attacking or threatening to attack someone, somewhere, and especially in the Middle East.
-
By: Martin Love
So many questions, so few answers so far
NORTH CAROLINA, Oct. 23 (MNA) – It’s a bit of an imaginative stretch, if not a preposterous one, but there may be some reason to think that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi might set the stage for positive changes.
-
By: Martin Love
Human pigs find pleasure in fights so avoid them when possible
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) – Oddly enough, but not surprisingly, I had a bit of an altercation this past week with one Josh Block on Twitter. I hurled a condemnation at a post of his, and he hurled one back at me and called me an “anti-Semite” and a bit more.
-
By: Martin Love
Banality and crudeness on display in Washington
TEHRAN, Oct. 04 (MNA) – The latest turn in attention in the US in recent days has been somewhat away from imperial pretensions and overreach, sanctions on other countries, threats of attacks on Syria (and Iran) and any other country, including even Venezuela, that fails to bow to US demands, whatever they may be.
-
By: Martin Love
Faint stars in a blackened heaven still exist
TEHRAN, Sep. 10 (MNA) – Trump, in fighting parlance, may be on the ropes, may be impeached sometime in the coming months, and it does appear that the Democrats may achieve a majority in the US House of Representatives in the midterm elections in November.
-
By: Martin Love
Perils could actually herald positive change
TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) – American analyst Martin Love has written his analysis on the anniversary of the US atomic attacks on two Japanese cities and has also had a brief look at the US foreign policy and the Zionists' grip on it.
-
By: Martin Love
Iran may need reforms, but US aims are absurdly regressive
TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Reports are rampant in the Western media about protests in Iran against the plummeting value of the currency and other economic ills. The same is happening or has happened in many other countries: Venezuela, Turkey, Argentina, to name just three.
-
By: Martin Love
A litmus test of sanity: the fate of Iran and Assange both
TEHRAN, Jul. 23 (MNA) – Americans are mostly a parochial, unsophisticated people. A clear majority have never traveled abroad. Almost 70 percent of Americans don’t even have and never have had passports, and even for those that do their passports largely go unstamped by a foreign country.
-
By: Martin Love
Let’s hope Ocasio-Cortez has real guts
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) – A comely 28 year old restaurant employee with a Latin name and background from the Bronx, New York City, knocks off the multi term Congressman in a primary election who may ultimately have become the Democratic Party leader in the US House of Representatives, displacing Rep. Nancy Pelosi (who really is no leader at all).
-
By: Martin Love
Iran not alone at all in these difficult times
TEHRAN, Jul. 10 (MNA) – Iran has been 'Iran' for a long time. Yes, I have read Herodotus and other historians about ancient Iran, and other historians in periods since. So while full condemnation of whatever forces are keeping Iran in the 21st century from reaching its full potential economically or as a society or both is perfectly justified, one ought not to worry about Iran longer term.
-
By: Martin Love
An American looks at a mandatory hijab
TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (MNA) – Javad Zarif is an impressive diplomat and a wise man, it seems, who supports the rights of Iranians to protest internal policies that some at least find uncomfortable.
-
By: Martin Love
Exceptionalism versus magnanimity
TEHRAN, Dec. 05 (MNA) – There is no reasonable justification for citizens anywhere to consider themselves or their country necessarily “exceptional”. When one is talking about particular governments pushing the meme of “exceptionalism” (rather than, say, humility) in some grandiose way, watch out.