Author: Steven Sahiounie

The 11th EU package of sanctions against Russia will target mechanisms of sanctions circumvention established by Russia to bypass prior packages. 11th package of EU sanctions against Russia may be agreed on, later on Wednesday, revealed a Politico report that cited five EU diplomats. At a meeting in Brussels, permanent representatives of EU countries are in the process of finalizing the package as they resolve the remaining issues. Similar to the latest US sanctions package against Russia, the EU package allegedly sought to target mechanisms of sanctions circumvention that Russia has established to overcome previously imposed sanctions. However, sources told Politico that Germany has voiced concerns that the…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is heading to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba to strengthen cooperation and bilateral ties. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is set to visit three Latin American nations next week to boost political, economic, and innovative relations. Raisi will leave for Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba on Sunday at the head of a high-ranking delegation, in line with his administration’s policy of expanding ties with friendly countries. Several documents will be signed between Iran and the three states during the Latin American tour, with an aim to strengthen cooperation in various fields. The president is also set to sit down…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Egypt and Israel are jointly covering up the true story of how three Israeli soldiers were killed near their shared border on June 3. Just like their 1979 joint peace treaty, they are jointly spinning a media story to distract attention from the real issue behind the deaths: the brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine. The border between Egypt and Israel is usually safe. The last terrorist act was in 2011, and it was an organized group responsible, not an individual acting alone. In this new incident, there is an Egyptian policeman who carried…

US Philosopher and activist Dr. Cornel West announces his bid to run for President in a bid to “run for truth and justice.” On Monday, Dr. Cornel West announced he is running for the 2024 US presidential elections, adding that he is running on the People’s Party ticket, a third party formed by left-wing Democrats. West said in a video posted to Twitter, “In these bleak times, I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for President of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” adding that “I enter in…

This comes amid accusations directed at Ukraine that it destroyed the hydroelectric plant to transfer military units from Kherson. Three communities in the Kherson Region’s Nova Kakhovka district have been entirely flooded as a result of the demolition of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, according to district director Vladimir Leontiev on Tuesday. Shelling earlier in the day destroyed the top portion of the Kakhovka facility, and according to local officials, the dam’s construction was partially undermined by shelling, resulting in the demolition of three spans under water pressure. Kherson Region officials stated that they are prepared to evacuate the Nova…

Residents of a Nile island claimed to be “under siege” due to severe shortages. Witnesses reported seeing battles raging in Sudan’s war-torn capital of Khartoum on Tuesday, and residents of a Nile island claimed to be “under siege” due to severe shortages. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Sudan’s army leader, and his former deputy Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo had been engaged in combat for eight weeks. Witnesses once more described “the sound of heavy artillery fire” in northern Khartoum, despite numerous violated ceasefires providing a brief calm. There were “clashes with various types of weapons” in south Khartoum, where “the sound…

Vyacheslav Volodin believes that it is obvious to everyone that “NATO is at war against Russia,” while Ukrainians are “just expendable material” The Kiev regime is unable to achieve the aims of its counterattack, with its army sustaining enormous losses, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on his Telegram account on Tuesday. “It is a second day of the Kiev regime’s counteroffensive,” he wrote. “No successes. The aims and objectives are unachieved. The losses are huge. The Barbarossa-2 plan has collapsed.” Volodin stressed that this topic was not raised publicly by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, or…

Peter Szijjarto recalled that the EU’s sanctions against Russia had not achieved their goal and did not lead to an end to the conflict in Ukraine, but only caused serious problems in the European and global economy The “sanctions hysteria” in the European Union is undermining its competitiveness with respect to the United States, which has felt the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine to a much lesser extent than Europe. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary, Peter Szijjarto said this speaking at the international Budapest Peace Forum on Tuesday. The Foreign Minister noted that “the…

The White House – which has also been accused of the attack – refused to say whether it tried to stop the alleged plot American spies knew for months that Ukrainian state operatives planned on destroying the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing leaked Pentagon documents. While the report implicates Kiev in the act of sabotage, it does not disprove the theory – put forward by journalist Seymour Hersh – that the US took out the pipelines. The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were destroyed in a series of near-simultaneous explosions…

The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister says today is an important day in the relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. An Iranian source told Al Mayadeen that the Iranian embassy in Riyadh officially launched its work on Tuesday. Iran reopened on Tuesday its embassy in Saudi Arabia after a seven-year closure, reaffirming a Chinese-brokered rapprochement. The Iranian mission resumes in its former premises in Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter — near Syria’s embassy, which is also expected to reopen soon following Saudi outreach to Damascus. The mission returns under the leadership of Alireza Enayati, Iran’s former ambassador to Kuwait. “We consider today an important day in the…