RT | February 16, 2020 Tehran slammed the US for using a recent UN report to peddle its Saudi oil attack claims, accusing Washington of “clutching at every straw” to back up the allegations, while the report itself is based on shaky hypotheses. “Just hours after the attack on Saudi oil facilities on 14 September […]
Press TV – February 12, 2020 Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says Iran’s satellite carriers have nothing to do with its military activities and lie completely outside the country’s defensive practices. “The satellite carriers have nothing to do with the subject of missiles, and constitute a completely non-defensive and non-military issue,” Hatami said following […]
Press TV – February 11, 2020 Iran has dismissed France’s “meddlesome” claim about its space program following a recent satellite launch, saying the Islamic Republic reserves the right to make scientific progress. Tehran on Sunday launched its domestically-made Zafar (Triumph) satellite using a Simorgh (Phoenix) satellite carrier, but the missile fell short of reaching the […]
By Paul Iddon – Offiziere.ch – February 4, 2020 In many ways, the Iranian ballistic missiles attack on U.S. forces in Iraq and the U.S. missile strikes against targets in Syria were strikingly similar in the way they sought to avoid bringing about any serious escalation that could have led to war. On January 8, […]
By Paul Dobson | Venezuelanalysis | February 3, 2020 Mérida – Venezuela has warned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that its proposed visit to the country has not been authorised and will not be accepted. The Washington DC-based organisation announced a five-day delegation to Venezuela starting on Tuesday. It was invited by self-declared […]
By Paul Goble, Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume: 17 Issue: 12 – January 30, 2020 In yet another sign of deteriorating relations between Moscow and Washington, senior Russian officials and parliamentarians have agreed that Russia should end its “provisional enforcement” of the 1990 accord signed by then–Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and then–US Secretary of State […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | February 1, 2020 The remark by President Recep Erdogan on Friday that Turkey might militarily intervene in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province fuelled speculation that tensions between Ankara and Moscow have reached a point of no return. However, this is nothing but wishful thinking. The calm rebuttal by […]
MEMO | January 30, 2020 French President Emmanuel Macron has sent warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to give support to Greece against Turkey’s quest for energy reserves in the region. Together with Macron was Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who was on a visit to the French capital Paris to gather support against Turkey. Mitsotakis […]
RT | January 28, 2020 The Iranian threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, moved forward on Tuesday after a motion to do so was filed in the Iranian parliament. The motion reported by the parliament’s official website brings Iran closer to breaking away from the 1968 treaty which laid the foundation […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | January 27, 2020 US President Donald Trump first said there were ‘no casualties’ in the Iranian missile attack on the Ain al-Asad military airbase in Iraq on January 8. “We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our […]
