Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Netanyahu in late February. A veteran UK diplomat who attended the US-Iran talks thought they went well and had the potential for an agreement. So what happened? Did Kushner and Witkoff avoid making a deal on Netanyahu’s instructions?
Former British diplomat, Alastair Crooke on how Putin has just called Trump’s bluff with a new weapon that experts claim could sink Manhattan
Oil companies will take the slightest excuse to price gouge and contrive scarcity for the basest of profit motives. However, as Kit Knightly, this also serves a political motive
While the world’s attention is focused on Iran’s war with the U.S. and Israel, Hamas is quietly rebuilding its presence and authority inside Gaza
The IRGC said Wednesday that its missiles struck more than 100 military and security targets in the heart of Israeli territories as “revenge” for the killing of Larijani, his son and aide
“Killing people six thousand miles away, who never did anything to us, is no long term gain”
The biggest mistake right now is thinking Iran is losing. Prof. Robert Pape explains
This is entirely plausible. Certainly more so than the handful of casualties the Pentagon has acknowledged so far. It’s also consistent with the scale of the damage wrought on U.S. regional bases by Iranian missiles
Here is what I think I know. El Presidente Magnifico has a terminal case of unbridled arrogance and imperious self-regard. This has left him vulnerable to certain vested interests and the corridors of power in America had already been taken over by these vested interests some time ago.
Shlomo Sand argues that the idea of a continuous “Jewish people”, whose roots stretched back to ancient Israel and who were forcibly exiled by the Romans, is a myth. Largely invented by 19th century Zionists with a view to establishing an exclusively Jewish state
Putin reportedly offered Mojtaba Khamenei one of his palaces, where the Iranian leader underwent a “successful” operation for injuries to his leg sustained in US/Israeli air strikes
According to former US Marine Corps Intelligence officer Scott Ritter, the U.S. and NATO do NOT have the military capacity to reopen the Straits of Hormuz