The remarks, delivered at a mosque in the capital Tehran, come two months since fighting halted between Iran and its sworn enemy Israel in a war that the United States had briefly joined.
Omani mediators in Sanaa as Yemen ceasefire talks intensify
Omani mediators appear to be convincing the Huthis to accept a ceasefire and take part in peace negotiations
UN nuclear watchdog ‘concerned’ over undeclared Iran sites
The UN nuclear watchdog also claimed its enriched uranium stockpile was 16 times over the limit These are the first substantive reports since Iran suspended some inspections in February UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday, May 31,issued two reports in which it claimed Iran had not...
Bashar al-Assad likely to emerge winner, in a poll seen as mere ritual
Assad has cast himself as the sole architect of a reconstruction phase for the war-ravaged country Having overseen total destruction of his country in civil war, he is expected to become more autocratic Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is likely to be reelected as the president of the war-scarred Syria in...
JCPOA woes: Trump threatens ‘strongest’ sanctions on Iran ever
Weeks after Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has threatened to impose some of the strongest sanctions on Iran. Terming them as ‘strongest in history’, Pompeo has urged Iran to immediately stop its missile tests, halt its entire nuclear...‘JCPOA’; how US’ withdrawal scripts economic instability, geopolitical flux
The recent move of the US president Donald Trump, intended to terminate the 2015-nuclear pact with Iran, has further escalated the environment of uncertainty in the region. Besides indicating toward the upcoming instability and disturbed geopolitical equations in the region, this termination also holds many long-term economic repercussions. After months...A weighting game: Russia’s balancing act in the Middle East
In 1978, Egyptian journalist Mohamed Heikal declared in his book Sphinx & Commissar that Soviet influence in the Middle East was a “spent force”, undermined by Moscow’s inability to be both a superpower and “the bastion of world revolution”. One decade later, as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91, some...Why Arab world is sceptic over the future of JCPOA
By Gareth Smyth In the same week during which US President Donald Trump replaced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo, the Saudi cabinet approved its first national nuclear program on March 13, with 16 reactors costing $80 billion. While Riyadh has stressed the diversification of energy...
Why Iran is making attempts to strike amiable relations with neighbors
By Gareth Smyth On December 18, 2017, a visiting delegation from the International Monetary Fund gave a generally upbeat assessment of the Iranian economy, estimating 4.2 percent GDP growth in the current fiscal year ending in March. Ten days later, protests broke out in Iran’s north-eastern Iranian city of Mashhad,...Kingdom of Saudi Arabia standing at complex crossroads
By Al Emid The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia currently stands at so many crossroads — and rather complex ones, it may be added — that a short magazine article cannot do more than just consider some of the more striking examples. The paths that KSA chooses at these crossroads will...Timeline; recent plane crashes involving Iran
Tehran-based Aseman Airlines flight, from Tehran to Yasuj, crashed on Sunday morning killing all 66 passengers on board. Following is a timeline of some major crashes involving Iran in the last 10 years: September 1, 2006 An Iran Air Tour Tupolev passenger plane catches fire on landing at an airport...Passenger plane crashes in Iran: 66 people on board dead
Scores of people are feared dead after an Iranian commercial aircraft crashed into a mountain in southern Iran valley on Sunday, reported a semi-official news agency in Tehran. Though rescue work is still on, till the writing of this report, but it was presumed that all 66 passengers on board...
