December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Here’s What You Need to Remember: News that the President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Tony Blinken as Secretary of State however may lead Iran to wonder if it should attempt a move before Trump leaves office or after. Tehran is not going to get a pushover administration in Washington, despite …
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Khalil al-Haya, a member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that those behind the assassination of the scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh will pay the price sooner or later, “and those who mess with the fire burn with it.”
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said that the US seeks to plunder Syrian oil, maintain the security of the Zionist regime, and expand ISIL terrorist cells in the region by being present in Syria.
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December 9, 2020 Balkans, Eurasia
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Saturday denied statements by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, that his country and Romania are stocking offensive weapons, including nuclear weapons, that could be used against Russia. There has never been a nuclear weapon in Bulgaria, he stressed.
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December 9, 2020 Africa, Eurasia
SADR President Brahim Ghali insisted that Moroccan troops unleashed the war when they entered the Guerguerat demilitarized on Nov. 14. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) President and Polisario Front Secretary, Brahim Ghali, called on the African Union (AU) to apply sanctions to Morocco for its occupation of Western Sahara …
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The Islamic Republic has given contradictory details of Fakhrizadeh’s death in a daytime Nov. 27 ambush on his car on a highway near Tehran. The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist last month was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a “satellite-controlled smart system,” …
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Clashes in the West Bank injured several Palestinians just days after a minor was shot and killed by IDF fire. Undercover Border Police officers and Palestinians were injured in clashes in the West Bank village of Kalandiya on Monday, just days after a Palestinian teenager was killed by IDF fire …
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkey’s annual inflation hit 14.03% in November, well above forecasts, raising pressure on the nation’s new Central Bank governor to impose tight monetary policies. Turkey’s annual inflation rose higher than expected in November, climbing to 14.03% according to data released Thursday by the Turkish Statistical Institute.
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia, Kavkaz, Turkey
Turkey is pinning high economic hopes on a transport link that would connect it to Azerbaijan and beyond, but Russia and Iran have caveats and the viability of Turkey’s projects are open to question. Having agreed a joint military center with Russia to monitor the cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkey is …
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December 9, 2020 Eurasia
Ahead of a European Council summit in which EU leaders will discuss sanctions on Ankara this week over energy prospecting activities in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated calls for dialogue, urging bloc members not be swayed by Greek and Cypriot agendas.
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