By Viktor Mikhin – New Eastern Outlook – 24.03.2019 The administration of the US President, Donald Trump, is currently using severe economic sanctions in an unsuccessful, and illegal, attempt to pressurize Tehran into dismantling its rocket program, and weaken its regional influence. The present US leadership is not trying to hide its implacable opposition to […]
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, on March 8, 2019, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Foundation to Support the Islamic Resistance. Transcript: […] The US sanctions and financial siege that we currently experience, along with being added to the list of terrorist organizations, and lately, the British decision to […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | March 22, 2019 US President Donald Trump’s tweet on Thursday that the United States should back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967, didn’t quite come like a bolt from the blue. There has been talk about such a thing for sometime. Last […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | March 19, 2019 A new phase is beginning in Iran’s approach to the situation since last May when the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal. Tehran had thus far prioritised the consolidation of Western opinion against President Trump’s decision with a view to effectively counter the […]
RT | March 18, 2019 President Hassan Rouhani announced that Tehran will pursue legal action against US officials who imposed sanctions on Iran, adding that the dispute could be brought before an international court. The Iranian president said that he had ordered the ministries of foreign affairs and justice to “file a legal case in […]
By Philip M. GIRALDI | Strategic Culture Foundation | 21.02.2019 The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme and unreasonable feeling […]
Pompeo leaving Warsaw. (State Department photo by Ron Przysucha) By Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News | February 19, 2019 What a job Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did in Europe last week. If the objective was to worsen an already critical trans–Atlantic rift and further isolate the U.S., they could […]
ProductiehuisEU | February 17, 2019 Speaking in the Munich Security Conference, Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif blames Israel of violating international law after bombing campaigns in Syria, criticizes European powers for not calling out Israel and the US for their behavior in the region. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Israel of looking for […]
By Finian Cunningham | RT | February 14, 2019 A conference in Warsaw this week was billed as reinstating the US’ lead role in diplomacy for the Mideast. The absence of Russia and other European leaders only served to expose the ill-conceived summit and Washington’s isolation. When the forum was initially planned last year by the […]
RT | February 14, 2019 US Vice-President Mike Pence has demanded that Europe withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and lashed out at the EU’s efforts to evade Washington’s sanctions on Tehran. Speaking at a security conference in Warsaw, Pence chastized Europe for leading an “effort to create mechanisms to break up our sanctions” against […]
