Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: BREAKING- MUNIR GETS IRAN’S GREEN LIGHT; HE Met the Man Who Threatened to Shut Off Gulf Oil
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-25-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Iran has told Washington that if the United States succeeds in economically suffocating it, not a drop of oil will leave the Gulf – not from Saudi Arabia, not the UAE, not Qatar, not anywhere. That message was carried out of Tehran this…
Sabrina Salvati, Zulfiqar Ali: Iran Just Crossed the NUCLEAR Threshold; Trump Secretly BEGS Pakistan to Broker PEACE With Iran
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-25-2026]. Trump’s Treasury Secretary promised the harshest sanctions Iran has ever faced – and the announcement landed like a mouse fart. In this episode, host Zulfiqar Ali and returning contributor Sabrina Salvati break down what Scott Bessent’s sanctions rollout actually means, why Pakistan’s finance minister is telling Washington to…
Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: Bessent’s “Biggest Sanctions” FAILS; Iran Moves Toward Mecca Pact as Trump Begs Pak for an Off-Ramp
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-24-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). Iran has been formally invited to join the Mecca Agreement – the trilateral defense pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – with enthusiastic engagement already underway between Islamabad and Tehran, according to sources detailed in this episode. The same day, Treasury…
Pravin Sawhney, Zulfiqar Ali: Iran Answered BESSENT Before He Spoke; SANCTION US and You Are an Enemy; China, Russia Told Bessent NO
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-24-2026]. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary went on state television on 22 August and said that any country joining the American economic war will be treated as an enemy, and that Iran will strike its interests. Two days later, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces what he has called…
How China destroyed US sanctions against Iran, Russia, and North Korea
by Inside China Business(opens in new tab) [8-22-2026]. Iran has been the target of economic sanctions for decades. North Korea and Russia are also under heavy sanction, and locked out of most of the USD and SWIFT financial networks. But China has developed comprehensive alternate platforms, and massive volumes of global trade are now conducted…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali:Maximum Pressure Just BACKFIRED in Bessent’s Face; Iran Secretly Invited Into the MECC PACT
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-23-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Ten minutes before we went to air, sources inside the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader told us that Speaker Ghalibaf was discussing Pakistan’s invitation for Iran to become the fourth member of the Mecca Pact – hours before Field Marshal Asim Munir landed…
Larry Johnson: Feeding the Enemy – How Washington’s Obsession With Iran Subverted Its Own War on Sunni Terror
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [8-22-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). (RAD: If you ever thought that the US Government was moral & looking to do the right things, then this analysis will certainly abuse you of those thoughts. When convenient, the US government will use the most corrupt & vile groups to…
Pepe Escobar: Exclusive- How Trump Tried to Bribe the Head of the IRGC
by Pepe Escobar(opens in new tab) [8-21-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes. Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe. A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live(opens in…
Larry Johnson: The Cushion Ran Out – Bessent’s Oil “Mystery” Isn’t One
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [8-21-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). Scott Bessent says he doesn’t understand why oil is going up. On Thursday, hours after announcing that Washington would keep its naval blockade and hit Iran with the toughest sanctions in history, the Treasury Secretary watched crude climb and told CNBC, “I’m…
Iran’s Weapons Production Doubled in Past Year Despite US, Israeli Strikes
by Sputnik(opens in new tab) [8-22-2026]. Iran’s weapons and defense equipment production has doubled over the past year, a senior defense official announced, even as the country’s military industry came under repeated US and Israeli strikes during the conflict. Brigadier General Reza Talaei-Nik, spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Defense, made the announcement in a televised…
Iran’s intelligence apparatus: sword and shield of the Revolution
by Geopolitics Prime(opens in new tab) [8-20-2026]. (For 47 years since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, The West, primarily the US & Israel, have tried to destroy Iran & subject it to Western rule. Iran has sufferred immensely, yet it is now much stronger and was even able to defeat the Feb 28 invasion of the…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: TRUMP’S “MAXIMUM PRESSURE” ON IRAN JUST GOT REJECTED; 440kg Missing; Trump Lost His Only Window
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-21-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). 440.9 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium are unaccounted for – and according to sources inside the Pakistani command, the only remaining channel with visibility into where it went runs through the mediator Donald Trump has just discarded. Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali report…