On May 18, Andishe Sazan-e-Nour Institute for Strategic Studies in Tehran hosted a meeting on the "future of Saudi-Iranian relations." The meeting discussed the current Tehran-Riyadh talks, and regional affairs expert Saadullah Zaree elaborated on the negotiations.
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Analysis: Al-Sadr’s "opposition role" initiative can complicate political crisis further
May 18, 2022 - 2:16 PMWhile Iraq now passed seventh month after the parliamentary elections, Muqtada al-Sadr continues to bring surprises the complicated political process in the country. Over the past few months he proposed forming the national majority government, gave 40-day deadline to the rival Shiite Coordination Framework (SCF) to form a new cabinet, and also gave the independent lawmakers two weeks to form government with his assistance.
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Analysis: Lebanon vote results positive to Hezbollah and Amal, Resistance retained position
May 18, 2022 - 2:01 PMThe Lebanese interior ministry announced the final parliamentary elections on Tuesday, saying that the turnout rate was 41 percent. According to the results, Hezbollah and Amal movement won 31 seats, Samir Geagea-led Lebanese Forces 20 seats, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) led by Gebran Bassil 18 seats, and Progressive Socialist Party led by Taymur Jumblatt 9 seats. The Lebanese civil community's forces together won 12 seats.
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Analysis: Filling of large Turkish dams source of regional dust storms
May 17, 2022 - 9:54 AMOver the past few months, dust storms have been posing a serious challenge to regional countries especially Iraq and Iran, triggering protests by the two states' officials at the Turkish dam construction projects and its role in creation of an environmental crisis in the region.
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Analysis: Aljazeera correspondent’s killing brought to surface Inter-Arab gaps
May 16, 2022 - 8:27 AMThe killing of the veteran Aljazeera journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh by the Israeli fire in Jenin Camp in cold blood drew international reactions to this apparently criminal act. Meanwhile, the Arab countries advocating the normalization with the Israeli regime did not raise their voice in condemnation along with the international community either in support of rights of the journalists or rights of the Palestinian people.
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Analysis: What’s behind American Sanction Waivers for Kurdish-held Syrian Regions?
May 15, 2022 - 2:26 PMWhile the Syrian social-political situation in recent years, especially since the early 2022, has begun transition to calm, the US still takes actions to keep Damascus away from a final solution to the over-decade-long crisis.
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Analysis: What are challenges caused by Iraqi political stalemate?
May 15, 2022 - 8:05 AMAnother negative implication of the political stalemate in Iraq is the suspension of agenda pursuing expulsion of the American troops. In late last year, the government of PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced that the last American troops already withdrew from Iraq but after five months from 2022, the occupation forces still exist on the Iraqi soil and even conduct operations.
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Analysis: Why is Erdogan raising Syrian refugee home return now?
May 14, 2022 - 8:03 AMPlaying with the Syrian refugees’ card to wrest political and economic privileges from the West and Syria over the past 11 years, Turkey has a new plan for the displaced Syrians it is hosting.
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Analysis: Iraq, big illegal arms market
May 11, 2022 - 12:48 PMRecent tribal clashes in Iraqi Maysan province brought back focus on large amounts of illegal arms in the Iraq society. Armed clashes caused by tribal differences is a matter of long history in various Iraqi provinces, always killing and wounding people.
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Analysis: Fearing Palestinian response, Israelis see days of hit, run gone
May 11, 2022 - 9:21 AMThe recent blows the Israelis received from the Palestinian resistance groups through the operations deep into the occupied territories have caused a crisis to Bennett-led coalition in the parliament and triggered massive protests by the Israeli settlers at the performance of the security forces.
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Analysis: What’s motivating Bin Salman’s $2 Billion investment in Israeli economy?
May 11, 2022 - 9:18 AMAfter revelations about secret meetings between Saudi and Israeli officials, now new reports have emerged about the behind-the-scenes relations between the two sides. Israeli media have recently broke the news about Saudi investment in the Israeli economy.
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Analysis: What are Russian choices to punish Tel Aviv for Ukraine-linked stances?
May 10, 2022 - 8:48 AMThe Ukrainian crisis that is caused by the Russian operation on February 24 has led to Russian-Israeli tensions. Over the past years, Russia has chosen lenience and flexibility with Tel Aviv in a bid to save the relationship with the Israeli government despite conflict of policies in the Syrian crisis.
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Analysis: Will independents join Sadr-led coalition?
May 10, 2022 - 8:43 AMA key principle in pragmatic politics suggests that "the validity of any political doctrine depends, to a large extent, on the success of that doctrine when it is actually implemented. In this view, to achieve the desired result, the decision makers should look realistically at the political situation; that is, reality as it is and not as it should be.
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Analysis: Iran-China relations, military cooperation outlook
May 9, 2022 - 8:56 AMThe April 27 visit of the Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe to Iran drew considerable reactions from various media outlets and strategic and military studies circles. During the talks with the Iranian officials, the point of focus was upgrading the scientific and military partnership.
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Analysis: Was Hitler accomplice to Jewish circle behind Israel creation?
May 8, 2022 - 8:23 AMA recent interview of an Italian TV channel with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has proven controversial. The top Russian diplomat was asked how Russia claims it is de-Nazifying Ukraine while the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is himself a Jewish and hence a Naziphobe.
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Analysis: Iraq, future threats posed by water crisis
May 7, 2022 - 11:01 AMThese days, the draining of Sawa Lake in Al Muthanna province in southern Iraq has once again brought to spotlight the water crisis in this country. The increasing concern about the water crisis is coming while over the past weeks the dust storms across the country have been raising the Turkish dam construction projects as a crucial threat to the future of life in many regions of Iraq.
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Analysis: Riyadh may flood Pakistan with cash for nuclear technology transfer
May 5, 2022 - 8:57 AMSaudi Arabia, a country that over the past decade has been giving away its petrodollars to the other Muslim countries to advance its plans in the region, is now focusing on the new Pakistani government. Shahbaz Sharif who recently assumed the prime minister post in Islamabad chose Riyadh his first foreign destination as a PM hoping that he persuades the Saudis for fundings to his country.
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Analysis: Focusing on Quds day in Iran, other Muslim states
May 2, 2022 - 8:47 AMLike every year, millions in Iran and hundreds of thousands in the other Muslim countries marked the annual Quds Day in solidarity with the Palestinian nation and the resistance groups fighting bravely for liberation of Palestine. This year's Quds Day was more significant than before due to its massiveness and the fast-moving developments in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Analysis: Football club deal meant to veil Bahraini regime’s black Human Rights record
April 28, 2022 - 9:34 AMIn recent years, there has been a trend represented by a willingness by the Arab countries to own foreign football clubs. The Al Khalifa rulers seem to be no exception as they like counterparts in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar are planning same possession. Recent reports suggest that Invest Corp Bahrain, a wealthy state company, has finalized a deal on acquisition of Italian A.C. Milan football club.
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Analysis: What consequences await Tel Aviv if new war breaks out?
April 28, 2022 - 9:32 AMAmid mounting clashes between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces in the West Bank especially Jenin Camp, the provocative desecration of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Israeli settlers and possible Flag Day march by them in the coming days have increased the tensions level to a peak ahead of the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan which marks the Quds Day.
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Analysis: Shiites should resort to self-protection model if Taliban fails to protect them
April 28, 2022 - 9:27 AMSuicide blasts targeting Shiite sites in various Afghanistan cities have been making important headlines for media in the past few months. On April 21, a explosion at a Shiite mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif killed at least 30 and injured dozens.
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Analysis: How Muqtada al-Sadr marring anti-resistance plots in Iraq?
April 28, 2022 - 9:20 AMOn the eve of the Quds Day and amid Palestinian developments, and while the Iraqi political equations are unprecedentedly intricate, Muqtada al-Sadr, the currently top man in the Iraqi politics, with a Twitter post put himself in the center of media and politicians' focus again.
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Analysis: Will new Pakistani PM’s Riyadh visit close cold chapter?
April 28, 2022 - 9:16 AMAfter controversial ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 9 by the parliament, the political observers are expecting to see the aftershocks affecting the foreign, rather than internal, policy of Islamabad. By appointment of Mohammed Shahbaz Sharif, who leads the Muslim League party which holds close ties to the military, the review of the country's foreign policy more than any other thing is expected in the country.
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Analysis: With Turkish escalation in Syria, Ankara Tightrope Walk with Moscow is faltering
April 28, 2022 - 9:09 AMWith the start of the Ukraine war, the West took steps to build an alliance against Moscow to ground Russia militarily and isolate it politically on the world stage. One NATO and West resort was forcing a change in the status of the Russian relations with its neighbors from stagnant to active tensions.
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Analysis: Jenin, emerging resistance stronghold against Israeli Occupation
April 20, 2022 - 9:47 AMAs the Israeli forces intensify their raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque over the past few days, the security situation in the West Bank grows more intense and violence surges.
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Analysis: New Palestinian Intifada pragmatic
April 20, 2022 - 9:20 AMTensions have been on the rise in the occupied Palestinian territories in recent weeks. On the one hand, the Israeli regime, as usual, has mounted its pressures and attacks on the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank and on the other hand the Palestinian youths have been launching attacks in response to the daily crimes by the Israeli forces, grabbing the calm from the Israelis.
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Analysis: Ukraine war deepening Russian-Israeli geopolitical interests gap
April 20, 2022 - 9:18 AMThe Russian-Ukrainian war obviously demonstrated the geopolitical divergence of interests in Eastern Europe. It at the same time is an important and efficient tool to analyze the international dynamics of power in relation to many countries that are directly or indirectly involved in this conflict. One of the best examples is the West Asian political equations and the relations between Tel Aviv and Moscow.
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USA: Wasting taxpayers’ money on Iron Dumb
April 18, 2022 - 10:14 AMHow many times have we heard the sentence “the U.S. government is on the verge of shutdown?” Tons of times, we dare say From the 2008 economic crisis in Obama’s tenure –which was entirely George W. Bush’s fault!- to a wobbling Joe Biden who shakes hands with air after his speeches.
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Analysis: What was discussed during Iraqi FM’s visit to Iran?
April 18, 2022 - 9:16 AMIraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein arrived in Iran on April 13 for an official visit that saw him meeting Iranian officials. Reports said that the top Iraqi diplomat discussed in Tehran bilateral ties, regional developments, and some other cases of interest including Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine. The visit was paid at the invitation of Iranian counterpart Hussein Amir-Abdollahian.
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Analysis: Kurdish region’s dam projects an emerging dispute case with Iraqi central govt.
April 17, 2022 - 10:11 AMWhile recently dust storms prompted by the Turkish dam construction projects on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have been exposing the region to a big environmental issue, the Iraqi Kurdistan region is moving towards constructing more dams in the areas under its control, possibly making things worse at least for Iraq itself.
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