Press TV – July 21, 2020
Iran is to set up a special office in China to streamline trade activities with the East Asian country.
A senior businessman says major Iranian companies are teaming up to create a trade office in China amid growing economic relations between the two countries.
Portland? Who's next?My first trip to Turkey was in 1969-- and it was love at first sight. I drove a VW camper van from London to Istanbul, stayed a few weeks and then drove the entire width of the country-- to Ankara and Kirikkale (then a small village, now a sprawling city) in the middle of the country, along the Black Sea to Samsun and Tabzon, down into the "wild east" city of Ezurum and then to Iran.
-by Eric ZuesseThe gradual process of Turkey’s becoming an Islamic sharia-law country, again, is no longer so gradual. It has taken a sudden and sharp rightward turn, into Islamic-nationhood.
More then 5 years ago the report below was posted here. And considering all that has gone on and all that is occurring presently... I'd say my statements were right on the money!
Quoting from the oped:
Submitted by George Callaghan…
In the middle of July sporadic fire across the ceasefire line between Azerbaijan and Armenia grew into heavy fighting. The two Caucasian countries are scrapping over Nagorno Karabakh. This region is almost exclusively ethnically Armenian but legally pertains to Azerbaijan.
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture
South Front | July 18, 2020
The Armenian-Azerbaijani tensions have once again turned South Caucasus into a hot point increasing chances of a new regional war.
The gradual process of Turkey’s becoming an Islamic sharia-law country, again, is no longer so gradual. It has taken a sudden and sharp rightward turn, into Islamic-nationhood.
The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. In plain Greek, several decades ago St. Paisius was educating Turkish leaders about the sequence of events that the reconversion of Hagia Sophia would set in motion: “When the cathedral of Hagia Sophia is turned into a mosque, Turkey will disintegrate”.
