January 29, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The regime is more vulnerable than ever, even as domestic reforms, nuclear diplomacy and better relations with the West appear remote. Iran marks the anniversary of the Islamic revolution in February amid increasingly existential challenges at home and in relations with the outside world. Four months of nationwide protests — …
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January 29, 2023 Eurasia, India, Pakistan, South East Asia
While speaking at the recently concluded Jaipur Literature Festival, former Indian ace spy master AS Dulat shared his observations and views on the current situation in J&K and abrogation of Article370 with his characteristic gusto and candour. Having held high positions in the Intelligence Bureau [J&K Division], Research and Analysis …
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January 29, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran imposed fresh sanctions on dozens of European Union (EU) and British officials and entities for supporting terrorism. The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday released an updated list of sanctions against a number of EU and British individuals and entities. Those individuals and entities …
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January 29, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
While Finland seems one step closer to NATO membership after Helsinki’s decision to resume defense sales to Turkey, Ankara’s anger at Sweden shows no signs of abating. Finland lifted on Wednesday a nearly three-year-long arms embargo on Turkey in a fresh move aimed to facilitate Helsinki’s entry to NATO, while …
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January 29, 2023 Eurasia, Iran, Middle Orient
In a tense exchange, Iran’s top diplomat has accused Paris of being intentionally confrontational while his French counterpart piled pressure on Iran over the detention of French nationals. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Wednesday that France was meddling in his country’s affairs and taking a confrontational approach toward the …
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January 29, 2023 Africa, Eurasia
Washington says UAE-based Kratol Aviation helped Wagner operations ship personnel and weapons to Libya, the Central African Republic and Mali. The Biden administration slapped economic sanctions Thursday on a United Arab Emirates-based aviation company for its alleged role in transporting Russia’s Wagner mercenaries to conflict zones abroad. “The Wagner Group …
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January 29, 2023 Eurasia
After more than half a century after the first edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF), namely in 2023, its 53rd edition unfolded and brought together again… …an important part of the personalities of the political, economic and financial, and media fields and others or, briefly said, the planet’s plutocracy …
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January 27, 2023 Eurasia
People with fortunes have an economic incentive to hide them behind the appearance of benevolence, so as to avoid scrutiny while making those fortunes even bigger. Behind every “build back better” inch of the WEF’s “great reset” of the global economy is some corporate titan, banking behemoth, power-hungry politician, bureaucratic …
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January 27, 2023 Eurasia, South East Asia
The Dangers of a Broad Decoupling For all the talk of how we have entered a new global era, the last year bears a striking resemblance to 2008. That year, Russia invaded its neighbor, Georgia. Tensions with Iran and North Korea were perennially high. And the world faced severe global …
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January 27, 2023 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
While Finland seems one step closer to NATO membership after Helsinki’s decision to resume defense sales to Turkey, Ankara’s anger at Sweden shows no signs of abating. Finland lifted on Wednesday a nearly three-year-long arms embargo on Turkey in a fresh move aimed to facilitate Helsinki’s entry to NATO, while …
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