On June 3, 2015, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov received Mostafa Zahrani, Director of the
Institute for Political and International Studies
of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Having discussed the Middle East, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, as well as the role of Russian and the United States in settlement of regional conflicts, the parties concluded that in its efforts to maintain stability, Iran ...
... want to nor are in a position to launch civilized mechanisms to develop "their" territories and population.
Ilya Vasilyev
Besides, after the Arab Spring, the area around Israel is volatile, which precludes any sort of political activity. The Iranian issue remains of paramount importance for Israel, thousands or maybe even dozens of thousands of the latest missiles targeted by the Hezbollah against northern Israel from Lebanon, as well as the threat of shelling from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli ...
... 5th)
Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse here and also published by Stupid Party Math v. Myth here thanks to Patrick Andendall
TEL AVIV — Outside of Israel and America’s Republican Party, very few people are against this emerging Iran nuclear deal, which represents the will of the governments of the UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China, as well as America (sorry, Congress and the opposition party generally don’t make foreign policy in America’s constitutional system) ...
... Cooperation Council.
The ties that have been weakening during Obama’s presidency have suffered a major blow due to Washington’s reluctance to stand by the Gulf states in Syria and more recently due to America’s decision to engage with Iran. Gulf monarchies are disturbed by the possibility of a real thaw in US-Iran relations as a result of the nuclear deal and see it as a major threat to their interests. The fact that John Kerry gets to spend more time with Javad Zarif, Iran’s ...
... resources have circulated the message without actually commenting on it. It would seem that the situation is clear – the U.S. missile “umbrella” is designed to protect its allies on the Arabian Peninsula from the expected missile “rain” from Iran.
Talking to U.S. diplomats and military personnel who have been working in the Middle East for a number of decades, as well as regional experts and political scientists, helps us reconstruct a picture of the world as it appears in the minds of those ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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
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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 ...