August, 2024

• 6 August

  Head of Russian Security Council Arrives in Iran

  

  Latest Developments The secretary of Russia’s Security Council arrived in Tehran on August 5 as fears of an Iranian strike on Israel continued to grow. Sergei Shoigu, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shown on the Russian Ministry of Defense-controlled Zvezda TV channel meeting Rear Adm. Ali …

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• 5 August

  Ismail Haniyeh: assassinated in Israel’s war on peace and quest for endless occupation

  

  In a brazen act that has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, Ismail Haniyeh, the exiled political chief of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday in Tehran. The 62-year-old Palestinian leader was killed during a visit to Iran to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Haniyeh, a key …

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• 5 August

  “The Cold War is becoming a reality before our eyes.” NATO officially declares Russia the main threat

  

  The NATO 2030 report, presented in early December in Brussels, recognizes Russia as the main threat of the coming decade. The alliance is moving to a containment strategy characteristic of the Cold War. Military observer Alexander Golts believes that the unity of the West is especially evident against the backdrop …

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• 5 August

  Russia exchanged political prisoners for spies. Among those released: Kara-Murza, Gershkovich, Yashin, Kurmasheva, Skochilenko, Chanysheva and others

  

  Russia has conducted a prisoner exchange with the United States and Germany. According to The Insider, political prisoners Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Alsu Kurmasheva, Andrei Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Alexandra Skochilenko, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Evan Gershkovich, Rico Krieger, Kevin Leake, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrick Schoebel, Paul Whelan and Herman …

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• 5 August

  Palestinians Hamas

  

  By hailing Haniyeh as a “great leader,” Abbas and his Palestinian Authority cohorts are sending a message to all Palestinians that the murderous Hamas leader is their role model. [T]he Biden-Harris administration and those who continue to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel…. must be reminded …

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• 5 August

  Cooperation between the Shi’ite militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen

  

  The cooperation between the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen has intensified in recent weeks, as reflected in announcements of joint UAV and cruise missile attacks on Israel “in support of the Palestinians” and in response to Israel’s [alleged] “massacres” in the Strip Gaza. Between June 6, …

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• 5 August

  Reactions to the Deaths of Fuad Shukr and Isma’il Haniyeh

  

  In the southern suburb of Beirut on July 30, 2024, the IDF eliminated Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and the head of the organization’s strategic array. The attack was carried out in response to a rocket fired by Hezbollah which hit the Druze village of Majdal Shams and …

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• 5 August

  Iran: Desperately Seeking Gorbachev

  

  Gorbachev had a thin resume as an apparatchik who had risen in the party by doing nothing, in fact, by being nobody. When he came to London to be promoted by Margaret Thatcher, his 10-line resume introduced him as the Central Committee’s agricultural tsar who had risen to be party …

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• 5 August

  Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in precision strike on his room during visit to Iran

  

  Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated during a visit to Iran in what the terror group claimed was an “airstrike” directly on his room that was conducted by Israel early Wednesday. His death dramatically escalates tensions in the Middle East and raises the specter of all-out war between …

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• 5 August

  Target Tehran: The Implications of Ismail Haniyeh’s Assassination

  

  Over the past two days, Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah figure close to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and is believed to be behind the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office, while he was in Tehran attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. The assassination …

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