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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program has been implemented successfully for a year now. Nonetheless, there are still a number of obstacles barring the path to its complete implementation, and even a fully enforced JSCPOA does not guarantee the stability of Tehran’s ...
... While the Tashkent summit was a crucial step closer to membership for India and Pakistan, the summit proved to not be nearly as successful for another regional player. Despite its return to the global stage following the removal of UN sanctions, Iran’s reception at the summit did not live up to its expectations. Iran’s history with the SCO is complicated. The country has observer status with the organization and first applied for membership in 2008. At the time, Iran’s membership ...
... countries are natural regional successors to the leadership of Egypt, Syria and Iraq assumes that those countries are part of a single regional system of relations. At the same time, the report’s ignoring of Turkey’s role, a negative view of Iran and the lack of any mention of the Maghreb set the geographical map of the system it describes as extending from Syria in the north to Oman in the south and from Iraq in the east to Egypt in the west. As they discuss a unified security system, the ...
... few years have shown that the USA is by no means always able or willing to deal with the region’s problems, which forces Israel to act on its own and to look for allies. Moscow is unlikely to radically revise its position on Middle East settlement. Iran and Syria were frequently mentioned during Netanyahu’s recent visit to Moscow. Israel is very worried by the increase of the Iranian (and pro-Iranian) military presence in Syria, especially close to the Israeli border, and the growing Iranian influence ...
... government-controlled towns underpinning the limits of international negotiators’ control on the ground. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service Andrey Kortunov: Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi As a result of the offensive Iran suffered one of the largest single-day losses in Syria with IRGC losing 13 soldiers, having 18 more wounded and at least 6 captured by the rebels. According to the officials in Tehran Iranian soldiers were caught off guard by the rebels amidst the ...
On April 22, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a meeting with the Prof. Jahangir Karami, Head of the Center for Russian Studies at University of Tehran and Academic Council Member at the Iran Research Institute of Eurasian Studies ( IRAS ), and Dr. Hamid Zanganeh, Third Counselor of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation. RIAC was represented by its Program Director Ivan Timofeev, Deputy Program Director ...
... effectiveness of the operation would be decreasing the longer it goes on. Having weighed all pros and cons the Russian leadership likely opted to scale back its military presence before these vulnerabilities get discovered. The changing dynamic of the Russia-Iran alliance The survival of the Syrian government with Assad as the president is paramount to Russia in mid-term, even if the allies disagree on key issues, such as the military strategy and the ceasefire deal. The withdrawal of excess forces by Russia ...
... Russian and American approaches to convoluted international problems. Being no secret, Washington had no clear-cut policy in the Syria conflict, at least since the completion of the Tehran nuclear deal when the prospect of a peripheral war against Iran moved to the backburner. As a result, the United States virtually franchised Syria to its regional allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia whose views on Syria hardly coincide with U.S. national interests. No wonder, the U.S. positions in the Middle East ...
... through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Photo from: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/yemen4.htm To continue to the more interesting angles, many other players are involved. For instance, there are recurrent allegations against Iran for providing weapons and training to the Houthis, in an attempt to use Yemen for a proxy war against the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, which are traditionally the champions of the Sunnah. Although, in all fairness the Iranian government firmly ...
.... Even Russian Federation, despite its stagnating economy, is still gradually producing oil. The world is drowning in oil as supply of oil exceeds demand for at least 1 million barrels per day. Making matters worse, the elimination of sanctions from Iran, will lead them to supply solid amount of additional oil to the world market. This will clearly push the prices of oil down. World major oil market players should reach an agreement and cut production of oil, in order to push the prices up. However,...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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