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Relations within the Iran-United States-Saudi Arabia triangle The civil war in Iraq is raging on – local Sunnis have risen up against the Shiite authorities. The causes of the uprising lie in the Sunni elite’s resentment of its position in the country and in ...
... attacks against the community has meant that Shia Muslims have been made to feel vulnerable and fearful; a situation which has only been accentuated by politicians’ insistence to link Shia Islam with the Houthis and beyond, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Houthis, who are Zaidi Muslims (a small sect of Shia Islam) is a political faction organized under the leadership of Sheikh Abdel-Malek Al Houthi, and have always made clear that while they belong to Shia Islam, their political views are however ...
On April 25, 2014 Russian International Affairs Council received a delegation of the Institute of Iran Eurasian Studies (IRAS). The two sides signed a bilateral cooperation agreement for joint projects implementation aimed at assisting strengthening of Russia-Iran relations and cooperation in tackling regional and global problems, conducting joint ...
Working Paper #14 This working paper was prepared as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s (RIAC) project Modern Russian–Iranian Relations. These two nations have great potential for bilateral cooperation, but that potential has not yet been fully realized. Incipient progress in negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme and a prospective easing of the sanctions against ...
... sanctions across different areas of cooperation and through different actors. Since his second and last term in office ends in January 2017, we can assume that the cooling down policy would continue for at least the next three years. Sanctions and the Iranian nuclear dossier The matter of settling the Iranian nuclear problem within the framework of the P5+1 and Iran is no less important for the White House’s domestic policy positions. In November 2013, Tehran and the so-called P5+1 (United States,...
... Bandar was quite literally put on political hold after a remark he made to French President Francois Hollande in the summer of 2013 prompted US President Barack Obama’s ire. At the time, Prince Bandar commented that by diplomatically engaging Iran, the US had proven it would no longer defend Saudi Arabia’s regional interests in the Middle East, a stance the Prince noted would have to be addressed. Needless to say that the Prince of Terror’s comments - as many have dubbed him ...
... National Transitional Council . The same scenario was meant for Damascus, whose membership was suspended after the domestic conflict erupted . Saudi Arabia and Qatar became key sponsors of the armed Syrian opposition in order to detach Syria from Iran’s orbit. Hence, during phase one of the Arab Spring, the LAS served as the trumpeter of Riyadh and Doha’s interests in engaging the international community into toppling the Libyan and Syrian governments. The general replacement of past ...
Settlement Road Map After a decade-long deadlock in negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue (INI), there have been some noticeable positive developments in the positions of the two key opposing sides: Iran and the U.S. The negotiators agreed on a road map of reciprocal practical steps that would lead to the realistic possibility ...
On March 7, RIAC hosted representatives of Institute of Iran Eurasian Studies (IRAS) and Iranian Embassy to Moscow to discuss future partnership of two think tanks and possible formats for joint research on bilateral cooperation and strategic partnership of Russia and Iran, as well as their dialogue on Afghanistan,...
... it does not meet its immediate security interests, an avenue has been opened up in between Kabul and the Taliban. For the past months, President Karzai has extensively worked to further bilateral cooperation with India, Pakistan and most importantly, Iran, determined as he is to create a network of economic, military and political alliances which will counteract any insurgency movement in Afghanistan; a move many experts have said could be prove far more effective than Washington’s military ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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