December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
L’Iran enterrait hier Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, architecte de son programme nucléaire. C’est le 3e assassinat ciblé de 2020 après Qassem Soleimani et Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah. L’assassinat cet été de ce dernier homme, grand ponte d’Al-Qaïda, semblait confirmer que la puissance chiite et l’organisation sunnite font front commun contre les ennemis américain …
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The message they [nationals of Lebanon] are sending to a new US administration is: The Lebanese people are hoping that you will help them get rid of Hezbollah. Cozying up to Iran would further embolden Hezbollah and allow it to destroy Lebanon by turning it into an Iranian-controlled colony.
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia
Ending America’s “endless war” has been a top goal of successive U.S. administrations since more than 100,000 troops were deployed to the country a decade ago.
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Iran
Members of Iran’s parliament Tuesday chanted “death to Israel,” and they voted to increase the level of uranium enrichment to 20% and to halt U.N. nuclear inspections in reaction to the killing Friday of the country’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. At the same time, Arab and Iranian media reported …
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
The Islamic State has conducted several attacks in recent weeks on the Sunni-majority provinces of Anbar and Salahuddin. The Islamic State (IS) has in recent days claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the Siniya oil refinery in Iraq’s northern Salahuddin province and for the killing of soldiers, policemen, local …
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Four days after a top Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated, the country’s conservative parliament overwhelmingly adopted a draft bill calling for significant breaches of Tehran’s obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal.
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
The United Arab Emirates deepens its strategic partnership with Greece and its influence in the Eastern Mediterranean in a coalition to check Turkish ambitions. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is participating for the first time, along with new arrival France, in the joint Greek-Egyptian-Cypriot Medusa-10 training exercises being held Nov. …
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Iran’s parliamentary elections last month were an unmitigated success for conservatives and hard-liners. Aided by unprecedented low turnout and the disqualification of thousands of their opponents, they won 221 of the legislature’s 290 seats, while reformists and moderates took only 19—down from 121 in the 2016 elections.
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Reactions in the United States to the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani have tended to fall into three broad categories. Those who support the strike argue that it eliminated a uniquely irreplaceable figure advancing Iran’s regional influence, while also reestablishing deterrence against Tehran.
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December 7, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Earlier this month, a prominent researcher and security expert in Iraq, who was close to the new prime minister and to Western governments, was gunned down outside his home in Baghdad.
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