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2021/05/08
By Tim Anderson
The Arab–Israeli normalization is just a removal of masks
The so-called ‘normalisation’ process, catalysed by Trump, is really just a removal of masks. The UAE for example, has been working with Israel for many years. No resistance state or people has changed its position. Biden has yet to announce his position on Palestine. But his options are now highly constrained.
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2021/05/08
By Paul Larudee
This is a time of change in West Asia
This is a time of change in West Asia, and it is having worldwide consequences. Israel is at the origin of the change because without it the U.S. would not have so many Zionists in its government and its foreign policy would be very different.
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2021-05-08 09:00
By Kevin Barrett
Ordinary Arab people will never permanently accept Arab–Israeli normalization
West Asia is currently bogged down in an apparent stalemate between the Zionist-imperialist aggressors and the forces of resistance. Neither side has been able to score a clear victory and eliminate or subjugate the other. The Zionists have not been able to erase the Palestinian question, nor have they succeeded in their efforts to neutralize the Axis of Resistance. So the fires are smoldering, and could blaze up into flames at any time.
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2021/05/07
By Khalid al-Qaddumi
Al-Quds sparks the flames of resistance again
In this piece, I want to address the messages and implications of the Bab al-Amoud uprising and some of the developments in Palestine.
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2021/05/01
By Chang Hua, Chinese Ambassador to Iran
China's economy gets off to a good start
According to the statistics recently released by China's National Bureau of Statistics, China's GDP increased by 18.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021.
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2021/04/30
By Mohammad Ali Saki
Hezbollah is the main target of Riyadh's ban on Lebanon
Tehran - Riyadh has kicked off a series of widespread economic pressures on Beirut to push the Lebanese government to exclude Hezbollah from the country's political and military scene.
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2021-04-27 13:43
By Martin Love
War is not the solution but patience is…
If ever a nation was severely stuck between various hard places, the U.S. is it, and the only blame that can be meted out is to the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve Bank after several decades of mismanagement and bad policy.
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2021-04-20 21:55
By Chris Cook, University College London lecturer
Energy diplomacy
Now the U.S. administration has made the transition to President Biden we see the U.S. engaging with Iran indirectly in Vienna via the other JCPOA participants. Meanwhile although the global Covid demand shock lingers, the recovery of the oil price which began immediately after the U.S. election has been more or less sustained.
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2021/04/20
By Jim W. Dean
Duante Wright, a senseless death due to family and police negligence
America saw another tragedy in the senseless death of this young black man. Two lives are now destroyed, a 20 year old young man struggling with competency and responsibility issues, and a 26 year female police veteran who when attempting to tase the resisting arrest man, drew her service revolver from her right hip when the taser was on her left hip.
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2021/04/17
By Sonja van den Ende
Natanz sabotage: A sign of Biden's unwillingness to revive the JCPOA
The attack on Iran’s nuclear facility Natanz, coincidentally, happened on the day that the U.S. secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Israel. Lloyd Austin, who was heavily involved in the Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. occupation (war), was the senior military commander in charge of all U.S. and remaining coalition forces in Iraq, since 2010.
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2021-04-16 14:32
By Martin Love
Zionism is the Ebola virus of American political afflictions…
A Palestinian boy is shot in the eye by an Israeli sniper with a rubber bullet, and loses the eye, while he is browsing in a food store. A Palestinian grandmother is run over and killed by a “settler” for no reason. A man is released from an Israeli prison after more than a decade of solitary confinement, but when he arrives home his mind has been so scrambled that he does not recognize any of his relatives, including his mother.
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2021/04/16
By Tim Anderson
West Asian endgame when the lying dead is in the morgue
It seems fairly clear that Israel was responsible for Natanz sabotage, as (1) the sabotage is consistent with a long line of Israeli attacks; (2) the Israeli media rapidly gloated over it and (3) quoted anonymous sources saying that the Mossad was responsible.
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2021-04-11 12:49
By Mehrdad Pahlavani
An accessible passkey to the West Asia crisis
How the nuclear deal can create a new solution?
The circle of tensions in West Asia runs slow, and after a slow or modest pace, it can potentially plunge. Like a multi-pointer watch, West Asia has several cogwheels. As one of the cogwheels of conflict bounces, the rest will pursue. Alleviation of a single tension in the region doesn't help immune others, but the escalation of tension in West Asia needs to be defused, at least by quitting one of the cogwheels of pointers.
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2021/04/05
By Abir Bassam
The second coming of Ben-Gurion
The reasons behind capsizing the Taiwanese cargo ship "Ever Given", on the 24th of March, have become clear.
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2021-04-04 10:07
By Martin Love
Huge whiffs of desperation in Washington now…
How grand that China and Iran have finally formalized, after several years of waiting, a 25 year (and likely more) “strategic agreement” that’s going to encompass not just trade and economies, but also cultural, educational, medical and other spheres, too.
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2021/04/03
By Professor Zhang Yuan
Staggered cooperation in a competitive environment between major powers
In the high-level strategic dialogue between China and the U.S. in Anchorage, Alaska, which ended on March 19, China and the United States showed a very frank and full of difference attitude.
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2021/03/26
By Martin Love
Biden ain’t cutting it so far…
On the surface, one might find it disturbing to have to read rumblings that the U.S. is in the too-long process of losing its empire and its privileges and hegemony and even the dollar as a viable and respected reserve currency. But the rumblings are probably true to some degree since they are popping up randomly like clichés and clichés always contain an element of truth or else they’d never have become such.
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2021/03/14
By Abayomi Azikiwe
The U.S. system could very well collapse if reforms are not instituted immediately
The U.S. has been experiencing various social developments in recent years. There were several factors which have led to the existing social crisis in the U.S. The failure of the capitalist system to provide adequate jobs, incomes and amenities to tens of millions of people while the ruling class is becoming wealthier,
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2021-03-09 15:43
By Reza Moshfegh
Derek Chauvin trial an important test for America: Hamline University professor
TEHRAN - A professor from Hamline University says that the trial of Derek Chauvin is a big test for America to hold police responsible.
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2021-03-09 10:54
By Martin Love
It’s a wonder Iran has not ditched the JCPOA…
Old man Joe Biden is showing a lack of fresh thinking more than anyone suspected he would, given his campaign promises, and this so soon in his own bizarre presidency. Some of his best promises have turned to dust.
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2021-03-08 14:24
By Batoul Sbeity
Changing strategies: From Trump to Biden
Although it may seem from the outset that the first major military action of the Biden administration in eastern Syria signals an escalation from the side of the U.S., the reality is that it is a strike in the direction of American compromise.
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2021/02/28
By Andrew Korybko
Iran has an integral role to play in Russian-South Asian connectivity
Iran is geostrategically positioned to play an integral role in Russian-South Asian connectivity. President Putin told the Valdai Club during its annual meeting in October 2019 that “there is one more prospective route, the Arctic – Siberia – Asia.
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2021/02/22
By Mohammad Hadi Shamkhani
Why there is no news of extending 20-year agreement between Iran and Russia
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed in August that Iran is willing to extend the 20-year agreement with Russia. The 20-year agreement ends in March 2021.
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2021/02/21
By Professor Fan Hongda
Prospect of the U.S.-Iran relations beyond manufactured scare
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement on February 18: “The United States would accept an invitation from the European Union High Representative to attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran to discuss a diplomatic way forward on Iran's nuclear program.”
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2021/02/20
By Abir Bassam
We need to scratch our back on our own
In an article I published on the Tehran Times a few months ago under the title “Waiting for the American Godot”, I wrote that electing Joe Biden will not bring any changes to the American policy in the region.
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2021/02/19
By Afifah Ahmed
Jalaluddin Rahmat founded modern Sufism
On Monday afternoon, I received a short message from a friend of mine containing sad news that Jalaluddin Rahmat had passed away.
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2021/02/15
By Batool Subeiti
Ten rays for the dawn of a nation
The Islamic Republic is the identity of Iran. Indeed, the world acknowledges religion as a system of governance for the individual. It is seen as a way to organise an individual’s life.
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2021-02-15 11:01
By Pourya Nabipour
Corona pandemic: Realism limitation in solving 21st century security threats and the need for new ap
TEHRAN- Today, most serious threats of the 21st century are not ones we can protect ourselves by using armies or advanced weapons. Indeed, the popularity of extreme-right politics, unilateralism based on nationalism and COVID-19 are threatening the world’s post-war security architecture.
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2021-02-14 08:52
By Martin Love
Iran may be more “democratic” than the U.S. nowadays…
Can it be more evident than it now is: that U.S. foreign policy is not “for” the U.S. or its citizens but for the Zionists.
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2021/02/13
By Andrew Korybko
Iranian-Azerbaijani relations will strengthen after Nagorno-Karabakh's liberation
Ms. Rafiga Mammadzadeh, a journalist with Azerbaijan's popular Axar online media outlet, recently interviewed the Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mr. Seyed Abbas Mousavi about the prospects for bilateral cooperation after Nagorno-Karabakh's liberation.