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Zarif, Johnson hold phone talk on Syria 15 Apr 2018

Zarif, Johnson hold phone talk on Syria

The British Foreign Secretary and his Iranian counterpart held a phone conversation today, during which Boris Johnson briefed Zarif on the joint US-led strike on Syria yesterday. Today, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss British involvement in the missile strike on Syria yesterday. […]

Russia says chemical attack on Syria waged with UK insistence 15 Apr 2018

Russia says chemical attack on Syria waged with UK insistence

Major General Igor Konashenkov Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lashed out that UK government and expounded on the way of recent chemical attacks on Syria’s Douma city and said, “opposition groups to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad carried out such heinous act with insistence and pressure of British government.” Given […]

Europe urged to threaten US to comply with JCPOA 15 Apr 2018

Europe urged to threaten US to comply with JCPOA

Steven Blockmans a senior member of Europe Policy Studies Research Center said on Friday that EU should threaten US to stick by Iran’s nuclear deal.” He went on to say that Europe must threaten Washington in the World Trade Organization (WTO) more than ever in order to live up to its commitments in this important […]

Trump dials back on bellicose rhetoric against Syria 13 Apr 2018

Trump dials back on bellicose rhetoric against Syria

In a new tweet on Thu., US President Donald Trump dialed back on his earlier belligerent rhetoric against Syria, claiming that an attack on Syria may not take place. Donald Trump continued his ‘Twitter diplomacy’ on Thursday to add that there is no timetable for attacking Syria. “Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could […]

Pompeo promises tough action on Iran 13 Apr 2018

Pompeo promises tough action on Iran

Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state told US legislators on Thursday that fixing “the flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal would be a priority for him if given the job. Revising the 2015 nuclear accord (JCPOA) was in “America’s best interest”, Mike Pompeo told Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing. The CIA […]

Syrian Army Fully Liberates Douma 12 Apr 2018

Syrian Army Fully Liberates Douma

Russia said the Syrian army has liberated Douma, the last Eastern Ghouta town under militant control, less than two months into its counter-terrorism operation in the suburban area near the capital, Damascus. “The raised state flag over a building in the town of Douma has heralded the control over this location and therefore over the […]

US Close to Stumbling into Direct Conflict with Russia amid Domestic Political Turmoil 12 Apr 2018

US Close to Stumbling into Direct Conflict with Russia amid Domestic Political Turmoil

Fifteen months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States finds itself on the cusp of a grave constitutional emergency at home — and closer to stumbling into direct conflict with Russia than at any time since the Cold War. It’s a moment when the chaos, wild rhetoric and crushing of presidential norms on which Trump […]

Yulia Skripal Declines Russian Help, but Embassy Doubts Statement 12 Apr 2018

Yulia Skripal Declines Russian Help, but Embassy Doubts Statement

Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian spy, has said she did not wish to take up the offer of assistance from the Russian embassy in London. In a statement issued on her behalf by British police late on Wednesday, Skripal said her father, Sergei, remained […]

Trump softens his tone on Russia within minutes 12 Apr 2018

Trump softens his tone on Russia within minutes

US President Donald Trump has scaled back from his position this morning, suggesting Russia working together and ending an arm race. Just this morning, Donald Trump threatened to attack Syria but now he retreated from his morning’s position only 40 minutes later calling for cooperation between Moscow and Washington, working together between them, and ending what […]

Israeli envoy, MBS, Rajavi meet in France: sources 12 Apr 2018

Israeli envoy, MBS, Rajavi meet in France: sources

TEHRAN – Israel’s ambassador to Paris, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and Maryam Rajavi, leader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have met in France, Pars Today quoted unnamed sources as saying on Wednesday. According the sources, the meeting was probably held in bin Salman’s recently purchased chateau, located an hour’s drive […]