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I think at this point in the game, giving the west illusion of reviving the deal is more important than actually reviving it. Europeans will continue to pretend there is some miracle chance of reviving the deal which shows just how stupid they really are. I could be wrong but it seems at...

I was reading this interesting book that talks about sanctions busting. Here are some interesting excerpts relevant to Iran from the book.

Fascinating. Thanks for the info. Will be interesting to see where he falls on China.

I think you make a very good point actually, Imran Khan had some good instincts but he was an extremely arrogant person, he probably had to be given his cricketing history but it didn't bode well in Parliment. His complete blanket refusal to work with PMLN was beyond stupid. He might still have...

Damn I did not know that. From somebody who knows nothing about Philippines, it seems to me that this would be a case of a guy from a family that historically was liked by the US in private but US publicly could not admit this due to human rights reasons? Is this a correct assessment? And how...

Can you give me a crash course on Marcos? I know media is bullshitting everyone but I am curious what people from the region actually think of him. What's going on in Thailand?

Looks like things are heating up again. Guess Barzani didn't get the message. Wonder if we will see a round 2 of missiles in Kurdistan soon...

I found it a bit strange that in the period of approximately one month, three big components of China's Belt and Road BRI in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Philippines have had pro-China govt's ousted and replaced with pro-Western govt's in rapid succession. Just figured I would make this observation.

Making case for illegal remittances and royalties out of the blue strikes me as bizarre to say the least. For years they didn't care but now it matters?

In Xiaomi's case, I would be surprised if they go for arbitration when China itself could do more damage to Indian companies in China. But I would not be surprised if this is the work of the tax dept again.

India is fool to do this, if they mess with Xiaomi, China will make them pay for it somewhere else. India has way more to lose and obviously Chinese know that. It's not like India could replace Xiaomi with their own companies. And royalties seem legit to me, in fact, it is probably baked into...

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company for $44 billion, the company announced in a press release today. Musk purchased the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14th. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and...

Imran Khan is out. Look at all the people who said have faith in democracy. Look where we are now.

Pakistan deserves whatever hell it is getting now for still being a democracy. If Pakistan had any brain, we would have gone the authoritarian route years ago like Iran, GCC, and Turkey which are 100x more stable than Pakistan has ever been. It is so easy for foreign powers to meddle in...

Actually, I listened to an interview with Marandi in which he actually said that Iran's negotiators came up with a very clever way to make sure US doesn't leave the deal this time. In short he said Iranian negotiators fully expect the next President to try to pull out of the Iran deal again, so...

1. There is no way anyone can survive a strike like that. 2. We may see more strikes like this soon based on the fact that Iran seems to be getting much more aggressive about retaliating against Israel and shattering their mirage of invincibility. Also, the fact that Iran actually said they...

Because this is one of the rare situations where Israel is in a lose-lose situation. They either deny Mossad being there at all which everyone on the planet knows is a lie or they publicly accept taking a massive L to Iran.

A number of Israeli government websites went down on Monday in an apparent cyberattack. The Israeli cyber authority confirmed the attack was a DDos (Digital-denial of service) attack that had blocked access to government websites, and that all websites were back online. The websites of the...