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Iran Aircraft Maintenance Consortium With China, India & Russia
Iran is to form an aircraft maintenance consortium with China, India and Russia. Four countries have been sending their commercial passenger
FP: Saudi Arabia wants to get even and bets on Putin
Saudi Arabia wants to get even with US President for unfriendly attitude towards the country. It makes a choice in favor of Vladimir Putin
Russia opens doors for Iran’s Eurasian integration
The January meeting between Raisi and Putin may have seemed disappointing, but now Russia is opening the door for Iran’s Eurasian integration.
India has key first-mover edge on China in Iran
India doubling down on Iran’s Chabahar port project as strategic counter to China’s Belt and Road gains trade traction
Former OPCW Chief Says His Office Was Bugged While USA Pushed Iraq War
The most significant piece of new information revealed in this interview with the acclaimed former OPCW chief José Bustani is his assertion that while the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered.
WHICH TARGET AFTER SYRIA?
19 years of “war without end” President George W. Bush decided to radically transform the Pentagon’s missions, as Colonel Ralph Peters explained in the Army magazine Parameters on September 13, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appointed Admiral Arthur Cebrowski to train future officers. Cebrowski spent three years touring military universities so that today all general officers…
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How the New Silk Roads are merging into Greater Eurasia
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China’s Belt and Road Initiative By PEPE ESCOBAR The concept of Greater Eurasia has been discussed at the highest levels of Russian academia and policy-making for some time. This week the policy was presented at the Council of Ministers and…