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Will There Be an Alliance against the Islamic State?

The meeting of Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held on April 20, 2015, during which they agreed to share intelligence information, testifies to the enhanced efforts of the international community in the fight against the Islamic State (IS). Iran has been actively involved ...

28.04.2015

The Kremlin's unexpected decisions

... the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition; Russian planes evacuated all Russian citizens from Yemen, as well as citizens other countries, including the United States and Europe; Russia took an active part in reaching an interim solution in the Iranian nuclear talks; and Russian diplomats have been working on draft resolutions at the UN Security Council. Some of the Russian leadership's decisions turned out to be rather unexpected. These included President Vladimir Putin’s announcement ...

26.04.2015

Russia Voices Concern Over 'Massive Attack' on Iran Nuclear Agreements

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow is concerned about a 'massive attack' on Iran nuclear agreements reached in Lausanne and calls on its P5+1 partners as well as Tehran to prevent speculations on this issue. VIENNA (Sputnik) — Moscow is concerned about a 'massive attack' on Iran nuclear agreements reached in Lausanne and ...

24.04.2015

The Tesla gas pipeline: have hopes revived?

... deliver the first gas via the new pipeline by December 2016. Gazprom has made substantial concessions to the Turkish side, agreeing to a discount of 10.25% instead of the originally proposed 6% . The hurry is also driven by the way the situation around Iran is developing. The news that the deal had been reached was followed immediately by a visit to Iran by the president of Turkey to discuss opportunities for developing economic cooperation . President Erdogan even promised to buy more gas from Iran ...

15.04.2015

Turmoil in Yemen As a Long-Term Oil Market Factor

... Yemen, a minor oil producer strategically situated in a region where more than half of world oil reserves are located, geopolitics becomes a long-term market factor. Price hikes there have more to do with a possible standoff between Saudi Arabia and Iran, rather than Yemen itself. Disruption in oil transit REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/Pixstream Leonid Issaev: Yemen: Following in Afghanistan’s Footsteps? Yemen controls part of the strait of Bab el-Mandeb, a bottleneck that separates the Red Sea and ...

13.04.2015

Iran and The Six-Power Talks: The Long-Expected Miracle

The group of six international mediators (the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China and Germany) and Iran reached a preliminary framework agreement on the “nuclear dossier” on 2 April 2015 in Lausanne. According to this document , the parties commit to reach a comprehensive agreement by 30 June 2015 entailing a complete lifting of the international ...

08.04.2015

Elections in Israel, Iran Issue, Palestinian State: What Is Obama’s Biggest Headache?

The recent elections to the Israeli Knesset, the newly relevant issue of creation of a Palestinian state, the next round of talks on the Iran’s nuclear problem. Barack Obama’s Middle East policy is again under heavy pressure. The relations between the US President and Israel’s Prime Minister are at low ebb, largely because of Iran’s nuclear program and the US position ...

01.04.2015

Leaders of RIAC and Iranian Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Meet in Moscow

On March 19, 2015, RIAC President Igor Ivanov received Seyed Kamal Kharrazi, Head of Strategic Council on Foreign Relations of the Supreme Leader’s Administration, to hold an extensive exchange of views on Russian-Iranian cooperation and key international problems. Having emphasized that the bilateral relationship is rising to the strategic partnership level to become a major factor for stabilizing regional and international security, the sides focused on Iran’s ...

19.03.2015

The Third Crusade

....S. Navy carrier-based jet fighters struck Islamic State artillery units near Erbil, marking the start of a new war. That is not quite the case, of course. The second horseman of the Apocalypse has not left these lands at least from the start of the Iran–Iraq war in 1980. Only the protagonists change (with the exception of Iraq itself). The new force is the Islamic State of Iraq, a terrorist group that sprang up in Iraq and achieved success in the civil war in Syria, success that enabled it ...

06.03.2015
 

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