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Not far from where Russia’s Foreign Minister is holding meetings in Tunisia, large green billboards advertising Russia Today, a Kremlin-backed media outlet, have recently been erected. The ads are yet another indicator that Russia…
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Iran claimed on Wednesday that it has successfully put an imaging satellite into space. The state-run IRNA news agency, quoting the country’s Communication Minister Isa Zarepour, said the Noor-3 satellite had been put in an orbit 450…
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The US and its Western allies clashed with Russia and Iran at the UN Security Council over Tehran’s advancing uranium enrichment and its reported supply of combat drones to Moscow being used to attack Ukraine. The sharp exchanges came at…
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Iran on Monday said it is possible to salvage an agreement on reviving its nuclear deal if Western parties, particularly the US, put an end to repeated delays. It comes five years after the US withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal that gave…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine carries the same existential threat to Europe and the West’s security order as Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 did for the Middle East’s, an international relations expert told the FII Priority conference in…
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The West’s steady criticism of Hungary on democratic and cultural issues makes the small European country’s right-wing government reluctant to offer support on practical matters, specifically NATO’s buildup against Russia, Hungary’s foreign…
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The eldest son of the last shah of Iran has urged Western governments to support popular efforts to topple the regime in Tehran. Reza Pahlavi, who is in Europe to drum up support for young activists in his country, told the Guardian that…
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Iran’s democratic revolution must be supported by Western countries, including the UK, according to a cross-party panel of MPs and peers. The meeting in the UK Parliament on Wednesday argued that a significant number of Iranians reject…
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Ukraine urged its allies on Friday to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western nations of consequences for their reprisals over its…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday dismissed what he cast as the West’s “frenzied” criticism of the war in Ukraine at a G20 meeting, scolding Russia’s rivals for scuppering a chance to tackle global economic issues. “During…
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