Iran Review - Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powells chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, says the escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran today is a continuation of two decades of U.S. policy disasters in the Middle East, starting with the 2003 run-up to war with Iraq under the Bush administration....

Press TV - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is setting the stage for a war with Iran, says a Bush-era official, claiming he sees the same pattern that developed ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as chief of staff for former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, made the comments in an interview with nonprofit ...

IFP - A former US official says an American war against Iran is likely at this point in time, and that it would be nave to think Washington would never do that. Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, made the comment in an interview with the Al Mayadeen news network. On Syria, he noted that Syrian ...

The Hill- Former Army ColonelLawrence Wilkerson says that he has never been as concerned about the state of this country as he is today. Wilkerson, who also served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, on Saturday said world relations are more concerning today than they were during some of the most tumultuous periods of recent ...

Hope is tempered by caution both among Iranians and in the west, where some see an opportunity to repair relations. A young Iranian couple, Masoud Bastani and Mahsa Amr-Abadi, both journalists and both imprisoned on account of their writing, have seen very little of each other for the past four years. Like many Iranian prisoners they were granted ...