Middle Orient

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 …

“Look at our times a handful of imposter clericsHaving no notion of reason and scienceHaving no notion of what man is aboutDesperate like donkeys in search of fodderAll they care about is eating and fornicatingHave cast aside notions of shame and honorThey seek nothing but loot and plunderAlien they are …

The Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displacement has revealed that around 3,000 Iraqi nationals remain in al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, noting that nearly half are unwilling to return. Deputy Minister Karim al-Nouri told Rudaw Network, which is close to the Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF, on Sunday, February 22, that …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched an ambitious diplomatic offensive aimed at unifying the Sunni world under Ankara’s leadership. The objective is not merely reconciliation with former rivals. It is the construction of a Sunni diplomatic and strategic “wall,” or “noose,” around Israel, replacing the Iranian “Shi’ite crescent” with …

Sans même prendre en compte tout ce qui concerne le groupe naval des États-Unis, se dirigeant quelque part vers l’Iran, observant ce qui se passe dans les airs, peuvent conclure que tout ce qui se passe fait partie d’une action qui ne peut pas encore être clairement définie : s’agira-t-il …

The leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said in a speech on the occasion of World Mother Language Day that “the Republican Decree on the recognition of the Kurdish language as a national language in Syria is an achievement and a big and positive step, but it …