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Mark Steel: The Iraq war was such a laugh, let's do it to Iran

Iran has Weapons of Mass Destruction! What's become of western leaders, that they display such a shocking lack of imagination and can't think up new stories to justify a military attack on Iran but just re-use the old one?

Attacking Iran will make Iranian nuclear weapons a certainty

An attack on Iran would be an act of criminal stupidity, says Seumas Milne, but US and Israeli leaders are talking themselves into a disastrous conflict.

Groundhog Day war on Iran: here we go again

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat its errors and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, far from treating Iran and Syria as different from Iraq, exactly repeats the pro-war arguments from the Iraq era.

Why the west should rule out military action against Iran by Tory MP John Baron

The present policy is to refuse to rule out the use of force. Such a policy is not only naïve but illogical, says Conservative MP John Baron. We are keeping an option alive which all know would be a disaster.

War with Iran is not inevitable - we can stop it before it starts

The war with Iran has not yet taken place. And that means we still have a chance to prevent it, but for that to happen, the public needs to wake up from its trance – and it needs to do it soon.

What you need to know about Iran's "new Hitler" and his military might

American political officials and commentators feel free to insist, with a straight face, that Iran is an aggressor nation posing such a serious threat to the U.S. that war may be necessary to stop it.

The war-addicts can't kick the habit: an attack on Iran must be stopped

This time the target is Iran, the pretence the regime's imminent possession of nuclear weapons. But some things will remain the same – it will lead to slaughter and end in disaster.

Will the tail wag the dog? Or can America stop Israel attacking Iran?

There's no doubting the Israeli appetite for war with Iran, but the US is urging them not to attack unilaterally, hoping that punitive sanctions will satisfy Israel for now.

At last someone who knows what they're talking about on Iran, sanctions and war

Obama's anti-negotiating stance has made an escalating sanctions regime the only available course short of war, one that is likely to lead to war -- unintended or otherwise -- says a former Obama advisor.

How Israel is using sanctions and terror bombing to provoke Iran into war

Like Iraq, sanctions are likely to intensify the crisis, impoverish ordinary Iranians and psychologically prepare the ground for war because of the demonisation of Iran.

Waving the flag of war against Iran won't magic away economic crisis

The generation that opposed the Afghan and Iraq wars in their millions is not going to stand for yet another conflict to waste resources, destroy lives and make the world an even more dangerous place.

How the media is legitimising war with Iran as if Iraq never happened

There is no more evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons than there was for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but that hasn't stopped the media stoking the flames of war.

US and its Europuppies softening up Iran with sanctions before pulling military trigger

Our masters have already demonstrated that they do not care how many people are ruined or killed in pursuit of regime change in strategic lands laden with natural resources.

Act now to stop the war on Iran before it starts

As US, British and French warships sail into the Gulf, Stop the War's national convenor Lindsey German writes on the need to campaign now to stop a war with Iran before it starts.

War with Iran would replicate Iraq disaster on a bigger scale but is anyone listening?

The invasion of Iraq could be disastrously replicated in Iran on a much larger scale. But the decision makers and opinion leaders, caught up in their own false narratives, are not listening.

It's not Iran but terrorist state Israel preparing for war that should be pressured

Obama is sending thousands of troops to Israel "to back up our unshakable commitment to Israel's security." But Iran is not a threat to Israel's security and is threatening no one.

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