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
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Middle East
Declassified – An alternative to the Suez Canal
In 1963, the United States developed a plan to build a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba through Israel. It would become an alternative to the Suez Canal
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Iran and China Sign ‘Historic’ 25-Year $400 Billion Strategic Partnership Agreement
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi signed the highly anticipated Iran-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement after more than five years of grueling talks.
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Will China’s bruited $400 bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an oil Gulf power?
By Niranjan Jose he relationship between China and Iran has been in the spotlight recently. A huge, 25-year deal is reportedly being
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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.
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Oman Has a Good Reason for Dragging Its Feet About Normalising Ties With Israel
by Ekaterina Blinova 26.09.2020 Oman has a lot to lose if it decides formally to normalise ties with Israel, argues Pakistani
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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
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