November 13, 2019 India is slowly but steadily pushing the thinly-populated but troubled Baloch region of Pakistan, the country’s biggest province by land area, to break away to become a sovereign nation, daring blowback from Islamabad that exacerbates the August 5 takeover of the disputed Jammu & Kashmir region. The message from New Delhi supporting […]
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“Iran continues to lie. The IAEA has confirmed that Iran is/ has been violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran continues to hide its secret nuclear weapons program.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raised the possibility that Iran is preparing for “a rapid nuclear breakout” in a Thursday statement, highlighting the escalating crisis between Iran and […]
Remarks by Brian Hook come amid growing concern in Israel over potential attack by Tehran in retaliation for efforts to thwart arming of Iranian proxies The US envoy for Iran said Thursday that Tehran has funded militia groups in Syria and Iraq to the tune of $16 billion. US State Department Special Representative for Iran […]
The representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader in the main conservative newspaper in Iran has once again demanded the “capture” of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. He had made a similar threat in early October. Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of hardliner Kayhan newspaper, directly controlled by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has again alleged that protests in Iraq “are […]
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration moved on Friday to further isolate Iran from the global financial system by declaring the country a “jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern.” Washington’s latest action forces U.S. banks to scour their foreign business relationships for any transactions with Iran. The U.S. Treasury and State Departments also launched a new program to […]
Iran is a problem From the Russian perspective, Iran is a problematic friend. While Iran has been quite useful in destroying Syria’s Assad’s opponents, aggressive military operations by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and its proxy Hezbollah could trigger a war with Israel, which is much against Russia’s short- and long-term interests. Russia wants to be […]
