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By sticking to the correct and popular position on Iran, even under relentless attacks from the right-wing press, Keir Starmer has forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal.
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Humiliating Iran U-Turn Should Be a Lesson for Keir Starmer
By sticking to the popular position on Donald Trump’s Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
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The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you
I wrote this piece just five days ago - predicting Trump would walk away and leave everyone else to clear up his mess ….and here we are - concluding extract below:
"Last year Trump told the world, 'we have obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities.'
"So why are we having a war, a year on, to obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities?"
#IranWar @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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Screenshot of The Byline Times Trump Went to War With Iran to ‘Seize Oil’ as US Shale Enters Terminal Decline The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves Nafeez Ahmed 10 March 2026 Photo caption: Donald Trump speaks at a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026. Photo: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
🚨 A senior WH official has confirmed that US aims to seize control of Iran’s oil reserves – third largest in the world – at the precise moment America's own shale production is entering irreversible terminal decline.
@nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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🔴Trump Went to War With Iran to ‘Seize Oil’ as US Shale Enters Terminal Decline
The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves
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🟧 Columnists — @therickwilson.bsky.social — Rick Wilson — Letter from America — (Edition 83)
The Bear Mutated — Vladimir Putin’s greatest trick was convincing the West that the Cold War ended in 1991 with a whimper and a Big Mac in Pushkin Square.
📌 ICYMI — The Kurdish Attack on Iran That Never Happened
False media reports of thousands of Kurdish fighters launching a ground offensive against Iran ended up endangering the very people living under the bombs, reports Dr Charles Kriel
🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…
Tim Shipman accused me the other day of not knowing how to “political journalism works”.
Well, the modus operandi is clear for all to see. Unattributed briefings to channel, without responsibility, whatever undeclared agenda a source or political journalist wants to pursue
What if the chaos is the point?
The #IranWar - and 30 year NeoCon plan adopted by #Trump analysed by @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with
@goldbergradio.bsky.social
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As I try to point out in my forthcoming piece for the print edition of Byline Times, Trump’s Christian Zionists are actually deeply antisemitic. They want Jews to provoke the Second Coming by fighting Muslims, and then they will be damned in the ‘rapture’ if they don’t convert
@nafeez.bsky.social
📌 ICYMI — The Kurdish Attack on Iran That Never Happened
False media reports of thousands of Kurdish fighters launching a ground offensive against Iran ended up endangering the very people living under the bombs, reports Dr Charles Kriel
"Last year Trump told the world, 'we have obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities.' So why are we having a war, a year on, to obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities."
#IranWar with @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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What if the chaos is actually the point?
#Trump and the #IranWar
@nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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If you want real journalism with truth exposed without fear or faviur, can i recommend @bylinetimes.bsky.social - bylinetimes.com/about/ Especially this months reporting and discussion of the news & the news from which some are trying aggressively and violently to distract! #EpsteinFiles Worth it!
NEW EPISODE:
How #IranWar is being shaped by plans dreamed up 30 years ago by #NeoCons aimed at redrawing the map of the Middle East.
@nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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Fourteen-jobs Farage has no time for his constituents. He barely attends parliament and has never held a single surgery in Clacton with people who elected him. Whose interests does he serve?
Great read.
Parliament needs to address this urgently. We put them in Parliament to represent ourselves, not themselves.
Time this gravy train was derailed.
Defections at all elected positions (councils etc) must be followed by an by-election, the voters must have a voice.
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Could a blueprint drawn up by US NeoCons for the incoming Netanyahu government in 1996 be providing the roadmap from #IranIsraelUSWar ???
Just listen to @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social w/ @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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In many ways, the more important question is not how journalism works, but for whom. With a few honourable exceptions - including @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk - the answer is, not for citizens.
"Last year Trump told the world, 'we've obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities.' So why are we having a war, a year on, to obliterate Iran's nuclear capabilities."
#IranWar with @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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His MP position is merely a podium for him shout out his megaphone style of politics. It is not about representation. 👇👇
So "Patriotic" so much a "man of the people" that he can barely be arsed doing the job as an MP that taxpayers give him £92k a year plus expenses for (and he was just the same as an MEP)
Charlatan
Could a blueprint drawn up by US NeoCons for the incoming Netanyahu government in 1996 really be providing the roadmap from #IranIsraelUSWar ???
Listen now to @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
w/ @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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“On March 5, the four main Iranian Kurdish armed groups all denied that any offensive had begun. Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government confirmed that no Iraqi Kurd had crossed the border.”
The Dem Party of Iranian Kurdistan said reports were an effort “to create divisions” in the Kurdish coalition.
The infamous Knife In The Back!
#FakeNews