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Russia, the biggest pariah Ukraine has 50 countries discussing their intent to continue providing military aid at televised summits. Russia has 2 countries (Iran and China) denying they are providing the military aid everyone knows they are. Iran has denied supplying Russia with weapons for use in Ukraine, saying it ‘has not and will not’ do so. The denial,… Read more.
The whole world is atwitter – with fear and loathing – over Iran electing hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi to succeed purported reformer Hassan Rouhani as president. I submit, however, that this reaction is much ado about nothing. Kudos to The New York Times for at least putting Raisi’s election into proper geopolitical context – as… Read more.
President Trump bungled the fight against Covid-19 and cowered in the face of the George Floyd anti-racism protests. Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that polls show former Vice President Joe Biden defeating Trump handily in November. A new CNN/SSRS poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden opening up his biggest lead yet, 14 points over his… Read more.
With a “no-deal Brexit” looming, Britain seems hell-bent on becoming an island unto itself. But nothing demonstrates how unprepared it is to go it alone quite like the way Iran humiliated its once-vaunted Royal Navy on the high-seas last week. The Royal Navy does not have enough warships to match UK ambitions, a Defence Minister… Read more.
President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions. As late as 7 p.m., military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike, after intense discussions and debate at the White House among the president’s… Read more.
The U.S. and Iran edged closer to a military confrontation on Thursday as Iranian forces shot down an American reconnaissance drone and President Trump charged that Tehran had made ‘a very big mistake.’ As the hours went by, each side refrained from additional escalatory steps, and Mr. Trump later appeared to defuse the crisis by… Read more.
The Americans are warmongering – again. I hope I can be forgiven for noting that I presaged this in “Preview of Gulf War III Starring Trump as Othello, Netanyahu as Iago, and Iran Desdemona,” May 7, 2019. US President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran’s insistence it had no involvement with the attacks on two oil… Read more.
The New York Times – of all papers – published an anti-Semitic cartoon on April 25. It depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog leading US President Donald Trump as a blind man. This incited unprecedented condemnation, and rightly so. The literary allusion in my title is decidedly more flattering. But I hope… Read more.
A US-led conference in Warsaw this week that was intended to isolate Iran has ended up isolating America instead — highlighting one of the central problems of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. … This annoyed European allies, many of whom sent only low-level diplomatic staff — or no representation at all — to attend the… Read more.
Iran called for calm on Sunday after protests in a southern city over water shortages turned violent overnight with reports of police shooting at demonstrators who attacked banks and public buildings. … A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political concern due to… Read more.
