In today’s episode we bring you stories from the Iran nuclear deal, the persecution of communists in Swaziland, the arrest of an Indian journalist, and investigation into the disappearance of students in Mexico

In the second part of a series of conversations about the geo-political situation, Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha analyzes the state of global disarmament and the possibility of the weaponization of space

Will US foreign policy change significantly under the incoming Biden administration? Vijay Prashad argues that this is unlikely, especially with regard to the Cold War on China

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the latest round of US sanctions on Iran and places it in the context of the continued aggression by the United States

The US withdrew from the JCPOA or the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. However, it is now trying to get sanctions imposed on Iran claiming violations of a deal it is not even part of

The United States, despite no longer being part of the JCPOA or the Iran nuclear deal, has been seeking the resumption of sanctions against Iran for supposed violations of the provisions of the deal

The latest US threat of resuming sanctions comes after its failure to get the UN Security Council’s approval for an indefinite extension of the international arms embargo against Iran which is set to expire on October 18

They may prevent Trump to take any unilateral action against Iran before the elections.

Besides being of some symbolic and political significance, the resolution does not have any legal value and is non-binding

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the impact of the Iranian strike on US bases in Iraq and the possibilities of the US response.