Middle Orient

AYATOLLAH Ali Khamenei’s top crony has said Iran is “ready” for the doomsday scenario of sustained Trump-sanctioned strikes. The country’s leadership has been putting up a brave front as an armada and fleet of fighter jets – the biggest US military build-up in the region since the Iraq war – …

The amnesty decree issued by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on February 18 has sparked widespread debate among Syrian legal experts and human rights lawyers over its legality and constitutionality, particularly given that it was issued by a transitional authority. The controversy has intensified over the legitimacy of granting such a …

Iran-backed PIJ terror group’s flexible command structure and unfettered emphasis on armed conflict has helped it expand influence in the territory, deepening the challenge for Israel With Hamas constrained by a host of political and military factors, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the most prominent Palestinian terror group after Hamas, has upped …

Trump wants Britain’s help with another illegal war in the Middle East, which could have far reaching consequences US president Donald Trump has signalled that British military bases may be crucial to an attack on Iran, without offering a legal justification for bombing that country. Trump posted on Wednesday: “Should …

‘What happened proves that targeting of civilians continues,’ says grandmother who survived Gaza tent attack Hanan Abu Hadaid’s family was fast asleep in their tent when the attack began. “Suddenly, everything was turned upside down,” the 60-year-old told Declassified of the Israeli airstrike on 31 January that hit their shelter …

Iranian students chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with counter-protesters on Saturday in the latest display of anger at the country’s clerical leaders, who also face a US military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal. The gatherings at universities, which were reported by both local and diaspora media …

Toplines A senior US official told Axios on February 22 that the United States and Iran may discuss the possibility of an interim deal during the third round of negotiations in Geneva on February 26.[1] An interim deal that only addresses Iran’s nuclear program would enable Iran to drag out …

Over the past two decades, regional collaboration in the South Caucasus has intensified. Turkey and the EU should establish a cooperation framework to accelerate economic development and diversification. Russia’s declining influence in the South Caucasus since the start of the war in Ukraine has opened a window of opportunity to …

Alors que les moyens militaires américains continuent d’affluer sur les bases américaines à travers le Moyen-Orient, Alexander Maryasov, ambassadeur extraordinaire et plénipotentiaire de Russie en Iran (2001-2005), explore la nature d’une confrontation potentielle entre Washington et Téhéran, la résilience intérieure de la République islamique et de son système politique, ainsi …

Fourteen Arab and Islamic countries and organizations have condemned remarks by the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, in which he claimed that Israel has a right to control lands belonging to Arab states, citing what he described as a biblical right. Huckabee said that Israel has a biblical right …