According to the report, the US-Israeli preparations underscore Western concern about the nuclear talks potentially reaching a dead end. Stop the presses. After almost a year of declining to put any real pressure on Iran, the US leaked a real military threat on Wednesday for the first time. Or did …
Read More »Iran’s Defeat In The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War – Part III: Iran’s Weakness vs. Azerbaijan And Turkey Is Revealed
Introduction Iran’s show of strength in the October 2, 2021 “Conquerors of Khaybar” exercise at its border with Azerbaijan and its threats to play the ethnic card to stir up the Shi’ite populations in neighboring countries against their regimes failed to improve its damaged geopolitical standing, Iran turned to the …
Read More »USA Loses Ethiopia; Biggest Strategic Blunder Since Loss of Iran
With the failure of the US backed TPLF Terrorist coup attempt against the democratically elected government of Ethiopia the USA is facing it’s greatest strategic blunder since losing Iran in 1979. The Ethiopian Army and its allied militias have in the last 10 days of fighting regained all the territory …
Read More »Iran security head claims US seeks to resurrect Islamic State
A top Iranian official attributed the ouster of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq to Tehran-backed militias while claiming that Washington seeks to revive the extremist group. The secretary of Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council has said the United States is seeking to resurrect the Islamic State across …
Read More »Iran’s chief negotiator says burden is on West, not Iran, for next move in nuclear talks
Ali Bagheri Kani may wait for the other side to bring “something to the table” now. It’s a deja vu moment in Vienna, where talks between Iran and world powers have resumed to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. Aside from the lockdown, the freezing temperatures, the new faces, and a …
Read More »UAE considers boosting Turkey foreign reserves with $5 billion currency deal
Turkey is reportedly seeking to increase the foreign currency reserves possessed by its central bank, in a currency swap agreement with the United Arab Emirates that could amount to at least $5 billion. According to the London-based news outlet Middle East Eye, which cited an anonymous senior Turkish official, Ankara …
Read More »Iran drones target Saudi Arabia through Bahrain, says Israel diplomat
Iranian drones targeting Saudi Arabia fly over Bahraini airspace, the Israeli envoy to Manama said yesterday. Itay Tagner told the US’ Axios that Iran had opened a “front against us in Syria and Lebanon, but now when they look across the Gulf, they see us there with our allies very …
Read More »The Gulf States and the Iran Nuclear Deal: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
While they fear what might come next, leaders across the Gulf are begrudgingly backing the resumption of talks on reviving the JCPOA. Talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal are set to resume in Vienna this week after a six-month hiatus. Negotiating teams from Iran and the five permanent members …
Read More »Iran’s Nuclear Strategy
The parties to the world’s nuclear deal with Iran, including Iran itself, have started a new round of discussions – the seventh since April 2021, when newly elected US president Joe Biden initiated meetings aimed at America re-entering an updated agreement. The talks – if you can call a meeting …
Read More »Iran denies having military base in Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition claimed it bombed a secret facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Yemen. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson denied Saudi claims that Tehran has a military facility in Yemen yesterday. “Such baseless declarations are made to deflect the nations of the region and the world’s public …
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