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Russia and Iran deepen political and military cooperation By Clara Weiss 8 August 2013 Against the background of continuing fighting in Syria, Russia and Iran have expanded their political and military relations significantly in recent months. The offensive led by the US and its allies...

The economics of the 'Turkish Spring' By Spengler Pitched battles between anti-government demonstrators and Turkish police over several days at Istanbul's Taksim Square constitute a national uprising against Recep Tayyip Erdogan's incipient Islamist dictatorship. As of this writing on...

Pipelineistan and the New Silk Road(s) By Pepe Escobar This is a version of a paper presented this week at the annual conference of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore. SINGAPORE - Ask Western elites - oh, those were the days, in the 17th century, when...

Testing Turkey Soner Cagaptay For all the talk of Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors,” no amount of soft power has been able to protect the country from the protracted civil war in Syria. Now over two years old, that conflict has laid bare Ankara’s inability to match Tehran’s...

Iran's Nuclear Program Gets 2 Major Upgrades In Uranium Enrichment And Plutonium Production, IAEA Says By GEORGE JAHN 05/22/13 VIENNA — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying...

A grand retreat from confronting Iran? By DAVID M. WEINBERG 05/23/2013 Washington wags are preparing a climb-down from Obama’s declared policy of halting Tehran’s nuclear drive. A new Washington report headlined by former US under secretary of state for political affairs...

And the winner is - Khamenei By Pepe Escobar Nothing will be left to chance - even the hint of a green protest wave. In 2009, 475 candidates registered to run for Iran's presidency. Only four were approved by the Guardian Council - the all-powerful, vetting clerical committee. This year, no...

رد صلاحیت خود را ظلم می دانم و آن را از طریق رهبر&#1740...

Blow for reformists as Rafsanjani and Mashaei are barred from Iran election Two important figures in Iranian politics including the former president, Akbar Hachemi Rafsanjani, have been barred from running in next month’s presidential election. In a blow to potential reformists, the list...

Turkey Fears Russia Too Much to Intervene in Syria Ankara won't step into the conflict because it's terrified Moscow will retaliate -- again. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (R) reach out to shake hands following a joint news...

Behind the Rhetoric: The Real Iran | BBC Documentary

Who is Mashaei? BBC Persian

Iranian Armenians hold protest near Turkish embassy in Tehran The Iranian authorities have allowed Iranian Armenians to hold a protest near the Turkish embassy in Tehran, Hayeli.com reported. Iranian Armenians attended a commemoration service for the victims of the Armenian Genocide...

Armenian demonstration in Tehran - The annual remembrance day of the Turkish genocide ???: ???? ?????? ????? ????? ????? ?????

Never said that Iran has the largest gas reserves...read my previous post again...what I said is that that Iran holds the world´s largest combined oil and gas reserves..oil + gas

Russia is more than thrilled to see Iranian oil and gas being cut off the European market.. it is well known that Iran is the most potent long term competitor to Russian oil and gas exports to the European continent...Iran holds the worlds greatest combined fossil energy reserves...

Some famous quotes made by Esfandiar Mashaei: "No nation in the world is our enemy, Iran is a friend of the nation in the United States and in Israel, and this is an honor. We view the American nation as one with the greatest nations of the world." "Today, Iran is friends with the American...

Russia’s new Middle East energy game Moscow won’t jeopardize its new deeply strategic energy partnership with its Israeli-Greek Cypriot ‘Western’ partners. Where does that leave Iran? Can Iran possibly compete with Russia primary priority: energy? If anything offers...