The wild card is not Russia or Saudi Arabia, but the US, which has lost a lot of influence and credibility in the region
The scenario agreed on behind the curtains through months of confidential exchanges, often one-on-one, between the Russian and Turkish leaders regarding north-eastern Syria is entering...
“Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, apartheid and denial of basic human rights are...
Most say it was a betrayal of American allies and ideals. Others feel the US should stop “regime change wars.”
Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel has said that “the Democratic Party is just as much a war party as the Republicans,” but praised US Representative...
By all accounts, major general Qasem Soleimani – commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) crack ‘Quds’ force that...
The unified foreign policy establishment in Washington, the Deep State politicos—from Lindsey Graham and Lynne Cheney in Congress, to the inveterate Never Trumpers like Peggy Noonan...
More war in wretched Syria. Half the population are now refugees; entire cities lie shattered by bombing; bands of crazed gunmen run rampant; US, French, Israeli...
The country’s political and business elite is being targeted in a drive that some fear could be exploited to suppress reform
Before Iran became Islamic, it was Zoroastrian.
The initial reports of an Iranian tanker being struck by two missiles claimed that they came from Saudi Arabia. However, the National Iranian Oil Company...
One theory for the ‘attack’ on the Sabiti is a ploy by the Revolutionary Guards to spur conflict with its Saudi rivals.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water someone poked a couple of holes in an oil tanker belonging to...
What is really behind the US Department of Education's fury over a Middle East studies programme?
Turkey’s attack on Kurdish-run territory in northern Syria will likely snuff out a radical experiment in self-government that is unlike anything I have seen in...
The issue of the United States waging what seems to be a global war by way of sanctions rarely surfaces in the western media. The...
Iran’s priority in continuing to optimise its oil industry exports despite ongoing U.S. sanctions is to push the pace of development firstly of the multiple fields that...
Time and again, when peaceful protests turn violent in various countries, US dirty hands are involved. There’s no ambiguity about months of protests in Hong...
By pointing out the depravity of the other side, that does not make us the good guys. We can see examples of this in the world of politics all the time.
After decades of struggle, female football fans say their presence at World Cup qualifier is just the beginning.
We have become accustomed to thinking of Iran as a hotbed of anti-Semitism, but Iran, not unlike the US, is more a complicated place than that.
Iran’s judiciary has been on the headline in recent weeks because of mass arrests, a process that has accelerated by new chief Sayyid Ebrahim Raeisi...
Iran’s new security plan for the region, “Hormuz Peace Endeavor”, demonstrates the realism in Iranian foreign policy and departs from idealism in past security plans....
Over the weekend I asked whether Donald Trump had risen to the level of Grey Champion. A few days later Trump takes to Twitter and puts...
The US president Donald Trump is not known to practise judo. A few judo techniques he may have got to know from his Russian counterpart...
The last four days have shown that the ongoing US-Iran war is acutely affecting the whole region. This is now evident in Iraq where more...
"Whatever lay behind the indecisive Trump administration response to the alleged Sept. 14 Iranian missile and drone strike on Saudi oil facilities, one thing is...
Unnamed sources are being quoted stating that MBS’s position is being attacked from all sides, including within the Kingdom.
There is a strong current of change affecting the international political arena. It is the beginning of a revolution brought on by the transition from...
The killing of the Saudi journalist a year ago is part of the larger context of the battle for dominance in the Middle East.
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It’s Curtains For US In Syria. Russia, Iran Owe Big Thanks To Erdogan
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