. * Pakistan: Imran Khan New PM & Saviour * Turkey Crisis: Qatar to the Rescue * Yemen: War Crimes by Saudi/Emerati Coalition . ... United States/Iran: Trump Indulges His ‘Sanctions Mania’ . August 15, 2018 . . . * Pakistan: Imran Khan Poised to Govern * Yemen: Saudis & Emiratis..…
Yemen: Cheated Energy Workers Found New Trade Union . . Turkey: Upcoming Economic Storm Exposes Fragility of Erdoğan’s Rule . . ... Iran: Escalation of Economic Crisis and Surge of Public Discontent . . . . . . . ..…
In one of those gobsmacking twists that tend to emerge in complicated battlefields with multiple actors harboring a variety of political goals, the Emiratis, Americans, and Houthis actually share an enemy in al Qaeda, but given Houthi ties to Iran and Hezbollah, forging an anti-AQAP..…
Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates claim to be targeting Houthis, the opposition group on the other side of Yemen's war that controls the country's capital, ties with Iran. Funeral ceremony for some of the children killed by Saudi air strike Yemen While both Houthis and the coalition..…
Lane further opined that the alliance between Syria, Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement can contribute to stability, emphasizing that the real glue that holds them together is Russian participation. . ..…
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani shakes hands with secretary of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kosrat Rasul Ali, Tehran on July 17, 2017 Iranian official has warned that plan by Iraq's Kurdistan region to hold referendum will weaken Arab country.. ..…
The previous negotiations about Syrian crisis were held in Austrian capital Vienna on October 30, bringing together top diplomats from 17 countries, including Iran, and envoys from United Nations and European Union.. ..…
Several new Muslim-majority states emerged in Caspian basin and Central Asia from the dissolution of Soviet Union, neighboring the self-declared. But examination of the policy decisions of these new states and their Iran during their first post-Soviet years reveals that neither Islamic..…
But there is one huge tool we do control that will certainly have an impact on Iran: It's called Iraq. . Iraq, like Iran, is a majority-Shiite country, with myriad religious links with Iran. ..…
Powell said, we think it would be wiser for us to continue to work on the roadmap and to wait until after the election is over... ..…
To contain Iran's rise, both Bush and Obama turned to America's historic Sunni allies, particularly the regime in Saudi Arabia, to create a bulwark against the so-called 'Shia Crescent,' dominated by Iran. Israel, of course, was eager to target Iran as well. This unholy alliance..…
They are less concerned with majoritarian democracy than with deposing a president whose primary offenses they consider to be his membership in an Islamic sect, the Alawites, that they condemn as apostate, and his alliance with Shiite Iran. ..…
He feared that Shia parties would win any early contest and align the country with Iran. . ... At the same time, the U.S. wanted to avoid a Shia government that would strike an alliance with Iran. ..…
It was also a signal to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan that Assad, whose alliance with Iran they abhor, is now eager to return to the Arab fold.” . ..…
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu uses his photo op with President Obama today to talk up how the US and Israel are united against Iran, which is suspected of trying to create a nuclear bomb. “The alliance between our two countries is deeply appreciated by me and by everyone in Israel. ..…
That includes all elements of American power: A political effort aimed at isolating Iran; a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored; an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions; and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any..…
Its alliance with Syria and Iran, its two main sources of support, had grown weak. ..…
Then, for more than sixty years, Central Asia was cut off from contact with the outside world, as the Soviet Union closed its borders with Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and, later, China. ..…
European Union's top policy, Federica Mogherini, said this week that European, China and Russia working with Iran to set up special payments system that will allow the countries to avoid economic sanctions that Trump administration seeks to impose on Iran. ..…
UNITED NATIONS Iran has ample reason to stay in the nuclear despite the US and the remaining parties on Monday will discuss ways to blunt the effect of impending US sanctions on Tehran, European Union's chief said.. ... The European Union, however, has among other things, seek to choke..…
Second, the current U.S. administration has been employing hawkish policies, war-mongering and constant threats as a strategy to bring Iran to the negotiating table. Under the influence of Israel, it is seeking to establish an anti-Iranian military alliance in the Middle East. . ..…
EU's Mogherini eyes Iran SPV for trade 'before November.. NEW YORK - The European Union's, Federica Mogherini, said on Wednesday Special Purpose Vehicle under consideration to facilitate trade with Iran could be in place before November... ..…
On 14 November Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov made a statement affirming the legitimacy of Iran’s military presence in Syria, a signal that Russia considers its cooperation with Iran as important as its relationship with Israel (see Iran and Russia’s very pragmatic..…