Author: Steven Sahiounie

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says Scholz’s statements are a repetition of the German authorities’ constant move to join voices with “Israel”. The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, responded to the anti-Iran statements made by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his meeting with the Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During his meeting with the occupation PM, Scholz claimed that Iran was trying to develop nuclear weapons, stressing that Tehran should not be allowed to have nukes. The German Chancellor also said Germany gives priority to diplomacy for resolving the nuclear file, claiming at the…

A delegation of the Palestinian movement Hamas meets with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, met with a delegation of the Palestinian movement Hamas, headed by a member of the Hamas Political Bureau and head of Hamas International Relations Office Moussa Abu Marzouk in Moscow on Thursday. The meeting, which was held at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s guesthouse in Moscow, addressed the developments of the situation in the Middle East region and the international arena as a whole, with an emphasis on the Palestinian issue, in light of the Israeli far-right government, a Palestinian…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General’s announcement on March 14 about the loss in Libya of 2.5 tons of uranium ore concentrate from a site where it was stored under the agreement between the agency and former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi brought Libya back to news headlines. The 2.5 tons of uranium which went missing could not be made into a nuclear weapon in its current state, but could be used as the raw material for a nuclear weapons programme or even to make a dirty bomb. The IAEA, which is responsible for the safe disposal of the…

It is noted that fierce fighting for control of the city is underway Russian forces are steadily advancing in Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) having thwarted the attempted withdrawal of several Ukrainian army units, acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin said on Friday. “We saw that several Ukrainian army units tried to get out of there, but they were thwarted by our forces,” he said in an interview with Russia’s Channel One. “The situation is steadily developing toward the liberation of this settlement.” Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic…

Trump calls for the “total cessation of hostilities” immediately, at a time when the White House announced yesterday that the US does not support an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine under a China-proposed peace strategy. Donald Trump, a top Republican in polling regarding the 2024 presidential nomination, said that “every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war.” The former Republican President has said several times that the Ukraine war would have never happened if he were president and warned that the conflict will eventually lead up to World War III. “Our objective is to immediately have a total cessation of…

In Antony Blinken’s opinion, “there has to be a just and durable peace” in Ukraine At present, the United States prefers providing weapons and military equipment to the Kiev government over reconciliation-themed diplomatic contacts with Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. In Blinken’s opinion, “there has to be a just and durable peace” in Ukraine. “Just in the sense that it reflects the principles of the United Nations Charter. If it’s a peace that allows Russia to keep all the territory seized by force, that’s not justice,” the secretary of state said. He also explained that…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry says Xi’s upcoming trip to Moscow will further strengthen mutual trust and understanding between China and Russia. Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Moscow from March 20-22 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin confirmed on Friday. “During the talks, topical issues of further development of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China will be discussed,” the Kremlin indicated in a statement. According to the statement, the two leaders will also exchange views in the context of deepening Russian-Chinese cooperation in the international arena, and a number of important bilateral…

Kim Jong Un pledged to “respond to nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons” Pyongyang will continue to take measures against military provocations of the United States and South Korea, whose governments remain “openly hostile” to North Korea, DPRK leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday, following the launch of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. “I will keep working to make the United States and South Korea – who are openly hostile to our republic – realize the recklessness of large-scale military exercises, which they frequently hold in the Korean Peninsula zone,” North Korea’s state-run Voice of Korea radio quoted him as saying on…

The Russian president lamented the fact that the political systems in many countries “often bring people to prominence who have a rather low level of education and general cultural awareness Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed the phrase ‘unfriendly countries’ inexact and incorrect, because it is not so much the countries themselves but rather their elites or leaders that are unfriendly. “The phrase ‘unfriendly countries’ has entered the public consciousness and into common usage here. But, it does not accurately reflect existing realities. You could say that it doesn’t reflect the reality at all, because what we have are unfriendly…

“Only in the context of this understanding can doing business bring a person satisfaction and help individuals to fully tap their potential and achieve self-actualization,” the president said Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressing an audience of Russia’s business elite, offered a caustic retort to the executives’ previous conviction that it was far safer to hold their assets outside of Russia. “I used to often hear: ‘Well, it’s far safer over there’ (abroad ). How about now?” Putin said to the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) in Moscow on Thursday. “The very foundation of our existence…