Nazareth. President Barack Obama may have drawn his seemingly regretted “red line” around Syria’s chemical weapons, but it was neither he nor the international community that turned the spotlight on their use. That…
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As pressure mounts over possible military intervention in Syria by Western forces, it is important to contextualize this conflict geographically, politically and historically within the tensions that have been building up in this region, and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government on Wednesday to send five high-tech surface-to-air missile defense systems to Iran, a move intended in part to put a stop to Tehran’s $4 billion lawsuit over a contract dispute.
The shipment includes five S300VM Antey-2500 missile systems, United Press International reported.
Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajadi, welcomed the announcement and said his country now will drop its lawsuit, which stems from a 2007 agreement.
The US administration has launched the process of getting congressional approval of an attack against Syria. The Senate foreign affairs committee has voted for the resolution supporting the planned action. The next step…
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has warned against the dire consequences of a potential foreign military intervention in Syria. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi said a potential military…
The Syrian government and the UN have agreed that the UN inspection team will begin investigating the alleged chemical weapons use in the countryside of Damascus on Monday. The announcement was made amidst Western threats of…
Iran Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria, saying Tehran is “deeply concerned” about the use of such weapons in the Arab country. “We are very concerned about reports of…
CIA Hired People to Impersonate Enemies and Commit Terrorism The news that the CIA has admitted that it helped overthrow Iran’s democratically elected president in 1953 has gone viral. In reality, the CIA admitted that a long time ago. Indeed,…
Last week marked the 68th anniversary of the WWII destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9) — the first and only deployment of nuclear weapons in human history. Within…
Neoconservative writers at Commentary are today pushing hard for an ‘imminent’ attack against Iran and its nuclear facilities. Evelyn Gordon, an extremist Greater Israel Zionist, says in her piece entitled “There’s No More Time to Waste on Iran” that:…