The alleged “existential crisis” has been linked to the populist upheaval that drove a simple majority of Britons to vote to leave the EU.
The Telegraph, The Guardian, CNN, Money, and social media say that's what we should believe, and that thet “existential crisis” exists among Brexiteers in Great Britain too.
Just ask new Tory foreign secretary and super Toff, Boris Johnson, who just last year (born in the USA, BoJo was a dual national) renounced his US citizenship...
... and the controversial policy in Iraq prompted Erdogan to use pro-Sunni policy and rhetoric. Naturally, this approach
brought
Turkey into the Sunni camp in the region, where the shots are called by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and distanced it from Shiite Iran, another extremely important partner.
Normalization of Relations and the Interests of All the Sides
All this time the debate continued within the Turkish establishment about the further development of the country in view of its internal political ...
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 ...
