Deaths of Iran’s top military regional commanders, Ayatollah Khamenei’s life in intense danger, and increased sanctions from the West portend that the country is facing the greatest risk and threats in history. The disappearance of Ismael Qaani, the Iranian spy chief, has prompted speculations that either he has been killed by the country’s rivals or is arre...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty called on BRICS to play a key role in reforming the international financial structure and providing adequate financing to developing countries. The foreign minister stressed that international financial institutions and development banks need to have sufficient, equitable and flexible financial capacity to meet the ne...
During his visit to Ashgabat on October 11, the Russian leader attended the plenary session of the international forum ‘Interrelation of times and civilizations – the basis of peace and development’ in honour of the 300th anniversary of the birth of poet and thinker Magtymguly Fragi. V.V. Putin’s speech at this forum will definitely attract attention from al...
On the geopolitical stage, the West has orchestrated a proxy war, with Ukraine as the battleground and the Ukrainians as sacrificial pawns. The United States and Europe, the maestros of manipulation, have composed a symphony of lies and propaganda, conducting a chorus of condemnations against Russia. Zelenski, the fabricated hero, leads the orchestra of illu...
In January 2016 we’ve witnessed a partial withdrawal of sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. It should be noted that the introduction of those was linked to Iran’s nuclear program, which worried the United States and its allies, therefore Western countries were behind the introduction of sanctions that were aimed at applying pressure on Iran back in 19...
120 years ago, on October 21, 1904, an unprecedented downpour hit the oasis of Aïn Séfra in the Algerian Sahara. Its torrents swept away the mud huts and claimed the lives of many villagers. Among them was a Russian national, 27-year-old Isabelle Eberhardt, who was buried in a Muslim cemetery. She was born in Geneva in 1877 to an aristocratic family with Ger...
Israel and America share a kind of proxy operation worldwide, but the wider world is a lot bigger. The lead of a story by Gideon Levy on Middle East Eye answered the question for me this morning. The famous Israeli journalist and author wrote: “A society cannot go far with its head buried in the sand, and will certainly be unable to cope with the real challe...
Most of us think that the Islamic Republic of Iran is primarily against Israel. This is a failure to understand the teaching of Imam Khomeini and an ignorance of the many relations between the two countries. Ruhollah Khomeini was an anti-imperialist in a country that suffered first from the United Kingdom and then from the United...
One of the most epochal events in entertainment history took place just after the turn of the 21st century with the release of the film version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring was released on December 19, 2001. The Two Towers was released on December 18, 2002, and The Return of the King was released on December 17, 2...
The dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire became one of the most important issues at the beginning of the 20th century. The gradual collapse of the once great empire was accelerated and followed by struggle by the European Great Powers and the Balkan national states over its territorial inheritance. While the European Great Powers aimed for new spheres of po...
Omar Abdullah’s career as a politician took off at a high pitch – he almost walked into the Parliament of India straight from his drawing room as he effortlessly won the 1998 Lok Sabha election from Srinagar. A business management graduate, the 28-year-old Omar was offered what is a dream job for most people; Atal Bihari Vajpayee made him a Minister of State...
The European Union was founded not by Europeans, but by the United States and the United Kingdom to better control them. The European Commission (formerly called the High Authority) is the unelected administration responsible for imposing their will on the Member States. In recent years, it has managed to expand the Commission’s powers to the detriment of th...
The transition from years of confinement in a maximum-security prison to standing here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is a profound and surreal shift. The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey; it strips away one’s sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of...
During his electoral campaign, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian promised voters in his election to introduce new reforms to remedy injustices in Iranian society and to strengthen the role of the Iranian state in the international arena. It is now time to move from declarations to action. Of course, the current political situation in the world and as it re...
In January 2016, with the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, the UAE reduced its diplomatic relations with Iran. The UAE tried to de-escalate tension with Iran by sending a delegation after May 2019. The government of Iran’s then president, Ebrahim Raisi, tried to take a big leap in expanding relations with the...
Israeli officials brazenly and presumptuously declared that this would only be a ‘limited operation’ targeting Hezbollah’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon, a region where Israel’s vicious 18-year occupation ended only in 2000. On the other hand, Hezbollah has vowed to continue fighting Israel and has said that the group was ready for a long war after most...
Even atheists and agnostics would agree that Navratri, the nine-day festival celebrating the divine feminine energy called Shakti, or Maa Durga, is an empowering tool for Indian women and no other civilization or culture offers it to them. The festival, celebrated differently across India – the most festive celebrations happen in West Bengal and some...
In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences by several external political units of the time. According to the official historiographical traditions (mainly of Western origin), Kievan R...
“I was not a party to the order of the removal of the accused (Bhagat Singh & his associates) from the court to the jail and I was not responsible for it anyway. I disassociate myself from all that took place today in consequence of that order.” The above order passed by Justice Sayyad Agha Haider as a member of the Special Tribunal at Lahore to try Bhagat S...
A multipolar world implies diverse ties for mutually beneficial international cooperation, covering a range of areas in the fields of politics, economics, culture, security, information and, of course, law. A just world, being the most important global value of the new world order, is an expected political goal. However, such a world cannot become a reality ...