As Russia and India trade more across Central Asia and the South Caucasus via the North-South Transport Corridor, Russian-Iranian coordination will naturally expand in those regions too. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri told reporters in Moscow on Sunday that he and his Russian counterparts have formulated mechanisms for expanding coordination across a wide range…
Iran’s parliament has just approved the accession of the Islamic Republic to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), previously enshrined at the Samarkand summit last September, marking the culmination of a process that lasted no less than 15 years. Iran has already applied to become a member of the expanding BRICS+, which before 2025 will be…
As war rages in Ukraine, another conflict is ready to explode in the Middle East as the US and its allies confront Iran over its nuclear programme, supply of drones to Russia, and repression of anti-government protests. If the US or Israel were to attack the main Iranian nuclear facility producing weapons-grade nuclear fuel, Iran…
In 2011, over a dozen states in the Arab world were hit by a West-instigated wave of protest movements in the name of reshaping the political map of the world and redistributing the region’s natural wealth. At that time, color revolutions raged in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, civil wars destabilized the situation in Libya and…
Having colluded with NATO in their destruction of the Levant and the Maghreb, NATO’s Irish journalists now see themselves conducting a mopping up operation. Though NATO’s co-option of Irish-born journalists began in earnest with the illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq, it moved up several notches with NATO’s wars against the secular governments of Libya…
Two guys are hanging out in a cozy room in Tehran with a tantalizing new map of the world in the background. Nothing to see here? On the contrary. These two Eurasian security giants are no less than the – unusually relaxed – Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of…
