(2021-09-27). After 3 years of house arrest in Canada, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou returns to China. peoplesdispatch.org Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, was held under house arrest in Canada over allegations of the tech giant flouting US-imposed sanctions on Iran. China continues to insist that her arrest and prosecution was political…
(2021-09-27). Pax Americana: Pivot to the Pacific. southfront.org 
Meng Wangzhou | Written by Steve Brown. | Of perhaps minor newsworthy note in the west is the release of Meng Wangzhou. Meng was falsely 'arrested' by the US regime for "colluding with Iran" in 2018, via typical delusional paranoid charges, typical of the failing states obsession with Iran and an excuse (at the time) to leverage Trump's trade war. Ordering the arrest of Meng via its compliant neighbor to the north, that subservient serfdom obediently arrested her. Now, almost three years later, she has been released…
(2021-09-27). Iran And IAEA Yet Again At Odds Over Nuclear Monitoring. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are, yet again, in disagreement over the contents of an understanding reached earlier in September. | Iran decided to restrict international inspections of its nuclear sites in 2019 agreed as part of the landmark deal after the United States withdrew in 2018. | Iran and the IAEA, after long negotiations to salvage the deal, agreed on monitoring, but then something went wrong. | On September 26th, the IAEA said its inspectors had been denied…
(2021-09-27). Russia Strikes Pro-Turkey Rebel Base in Syria, Killing Seven. news.antiwar.com Russian warplanes Such strikes are unusual, and this is believed to be a matter of timing. Important talks on northern Syria will be held between Turkey, Russia, and Iran, this week. | Earlier last week, Turkey sent a number of troops across the border into Syria, wh…
(2021-09-27). Iran Becoming Increasingly Alarmed By The Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan Axis. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Tehran miscalculated the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, tensions between Iran and the emerging Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan Axis have significantly escalated. It is now glaringly obvious that Iran grossly miscalculated the new reality that would emerge with Azerbaijan capturing Armenian-held territories in the South Caucasus. | A major motivating factor of Azerbaijan's insistence on controlling Nagorno-Karabakh is the Greater Pan-Turkic project, where Turkey sees itself as the domineering center…
(2021-09-27). Iranian MPs warn of danger of Ankara-Baku-Islamabad axis. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Iran Lawmaker Warns Republic Of Azerbaijan Amid Apparent Tensions Fada Hossein Maleki, an Iranian lawmaker and a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has warned the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan for obstructing transit of goods between Iran and Armenia and objected to a joint military exercise at the Iranian border …
(2021-09-27). Fire Hit IRGC Research Self-Sufficiency Center. US&Israeli 'Plan B' On Iran In Action? southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | On the evening of September 26, a fire broke out at one of the Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) research center near the Iranian capital, Tehran. | As a result of the incident, three IRGC members were injured and taken to the nearby hospital. Two of the injured died as a result of injuries sustained in the incident. | The victims were identified as Seyed Mortaza Karimi and Hossein Abadi."On Sunday evening a fire broke out in one of the IRGC … research centers in the west of Tehran. Three people were injured and the fire has been contained." — IRGC officials confirmed the report…
(2021-09-27). Humanity's Call to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. commondreams.org
(2021-09-27). The Military Stood Up to Trump, But Who Will Stand Up to the Military? counterpunch.org When he was trying to win the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon famously told his chief of staff that he wanted Communist leaders—in the Soviet Union, in North Vietnam—to think that the U.S. president was a mad man, that he was capable of doing pretty much anything up to and including the use of nuclear weapons.
(2021-09-27). No nuclear submarines, say protesters. greenleft.org.au A new anti-war, anti-nuclear coalition organised a well-attended protest against the federal government's decision to build nuclear submarines and join the new AUKUS pact, reports Renfrey Clarke.
(2021-09-27). Social Democrats, Greens Eye Coalition After Outgoing Merkel's Bloc Ousted in German Elections. commondreams.org Citizens around the world are calling on their governments to ratify the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty—and the United States has a leading role to play.
(2021-09-26). Russia Has 'Thoughtful Optimism' on Possibility of Restoring Iran Nuclear Deal – Lavrov. sputniknews.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Russia hopes that all the original participants in the Iran nuclear deal will return to compliance with the agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
(2021-09-26). Iran fails to fully honour agreement on monitoring equipment, says nuclear watchdog. middleeasteye.net 
Iran fails to fully honour agreement on monitoring equipment, says nuclear watchdog | Iran has failed to provide nuclear agency access to a centrifuge component manufacturing workshop that was attacked in an apparent act of sabotage in June | Sun, 09/26/2021 – 18: 46 | Chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami during the IAEA General Conference in Vienna on 20 Septemb…
(2021-09-26). Yemen: Scores killed as fight for northern city of Marib intensifies. middleeasteye.net 
Yemen: Scores killed as fight for northern city of Marib intensifies | At least 43 Houthi rebels and seven government loyalists have been killed during the past 48 hours of fighting in Marib, according to military sources | Sun, 09/26/2021 – 18: 20 | Fighters loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government posted near the frontline facing Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the country's northeastern pr…
(2021-09-26). Support For Nuclear Ban Treaty Is Rising. popularresistance.org Nuclear tensions and nuclear spending are on the rise, but the elevated danger of nuclear weapons is overshadowed as other urgent global threats from the COVID pandemic, climate and environmental emergencies, and other urgent crises dominate news headlines. The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which entered into force in January, receives scant media attention, even as the United Nations prepares to mark September 26 as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. | Unlike other nuclear treaties and agreements, the TPNW, or nuclear ban treaty as it is also…
(2021-09-26). Coalition Slams UN Food Summit for Peddling 'Corporate-Led False Solutions' to Hunger. commondreams.org "Now is the time to lift the cloud of nuclear conflict for good," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said ahead of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
(2021-09-26). 'Humanity remains unacceptably close to nuclear annihilation, says UN chief on International Day. news.un.org "Now is the time to eliminate nuclear weapons from our world , and usher in a new era of dialogue, trust and peace", declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday, marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
(2021-09-26). UN Chief Warns Humanity Is 'Unacceptably Close to Nuclear Annihilation'. commondreams.org Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to take Israel to the International Criminal Court if its squatter-settlements aren't withdrawn within a year.
(2021-09-26). Milley, China and the Danger of Nuclear War. zcomm.org Gen. Milley's call to China may have prevented a near catastrophe, as happened in 1983 when the Soviet Union believed Reagan had gone mad and planned a first strike…