As rhetoric toward Iran intensified in Washington, major Western media outlets published coverage that framed military escalation as increasingly inevitable. Key context on international agreements, legal constraints and prior acts of escalation was largely absent from the narrative. Dimitri Lascaris analyzes specific examples to show how selective framing and journalistic omissions contribute to the normalization […]
On July 2, Iran announced that it was suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA). The Iranian announcement followed a series of revelations about the IAEA. Those revelations strongly suggest that the IAEA has become little more than a tool of Western hegemony, much like other international organizations (including the International Criminal Court). […]