Author: Steven Sahiounie

EU Spokesperson Peter Stano said on Friday that there are attempts between Iran and other signatories of the JCPOA to fix a concrete date as early as possible to reconvene in Vienna.” Stano also added, in the regular briefing, that the October 27 meeting in Brussels was “useful” and “helped to define a way forward to resume negotiations in Vienna”. Earlier today, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Ali Bagheri Kani, said that Tehran strives to achieve tangible results for the Iranian people in the new Vienna talks to lift the unjust sanctions, stressing that Russia and China also…

Saudi Arabia summoned its ambassador in Lebanon for consultations today, while it requested the ambassador of Lebanon to leave the kingdom within 48 hours and decided to stop all Lebanese imports to the kingdom. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that “the Kingdom’s government regrets the outcome of the relations with the Lebanese Republic due to the Lebanese authorities’ ignoring of the facts and their continued failure to take corrective measures that ensure observance of the relations.” “The Kingdom has long been keen on maintaining relations based on what it holds for the dear Lebanese people,” the…

Russia has registered 39,849 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours with the total number of infections reaching 8,432,546 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday. According to the crisis center, the relative increase of new infections is at the level of 0.47%. In the past 24-hour period, 3,452 new cases were uncovered in St. Petersburg, along with 2,556 new infections in the Moscow Region. Also, during this timeframe, 1,389 new cases were discovered in the Samara Region, 806 cases – in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and 776 new cases were detected in the Voronezh Region.…

The court announced the first verdict in the case over a fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall in Kemerovo where on March 25, 2018, some 60 people were killed, including 37 children. Eight defendants were sentenced to actual jail terms. Among the convicted are the mall’s general director Nadezhda Suddenok, head of the Sistemnyi Integrator company Igor Polozinenko and Alexander Nikitin, engineer of a fire-protection system at this company, an employee of a private security enterprise Sergei Antiushin, watch commander of fire and rescue unit No.2 Sergei Genin, technical director of the Kemerovo confectionery factory Georgy Sobolev,…

-Head of the Joint Ministerial Committee , Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Rostam Ghasemi, discussed with Syria’s Ambassador to Iran Shafiq Dayoub means of boosting strategic cooperation between the two countries in the domains of economy, commerce, investment, agriculture, roads ,transportation and power, in a way that serves the requirement of the current and future period in the interests of the two states and peoples. Ghasemi stressed that the new Iranian government is keen to enhance the cooperation with Syria in all domains in a way that fulfills the aspirations and interests of the two friendly peoples. In…

Syria condemned, in the strongest terms, the US policy and stances of its officials towards China, supporting the one-china principle. “In coincidence with the 50th anniversary of the issuance of resolution No.2758 for 1971 by the UN General Assembly on the representation of the People’s Republic of China at the United Nations, the US administration escalates its attitudes related to Taiwan issue , in a flagrant hostile interference in the Chinese domestic affairs and in contradiction with the context of resolution No.2758 that poses threat to the security and peace in China and Asia”, an official source at Foreign and Expatriates…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Russia’s military said on Wednesday that it had agreed with Turkey to open two crossing points in the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria and one near Aleppo. This could be a precursor to opening humanitarian corridors to allow civilians and aid organizations to leave ahead of heavy battles. By taking control of Jabal Al-Zawiya, Russian and Syrian forces could surround all the terrorist positions in Idlib. Russia would achieve its immediate goals in Idlib and continue to pressure Turkey. The civilian population in the hilly areas has left well ahead of recent escalations and…

France’s military doctrine on counteracting information attacks has raised serious alarm bells in Moscow because it is a declaration of militarizing the information space, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. “The French military without any hint of camouflage has presented a new doctrine to society – an information war for influence. <…> It seems that nobody has dared yet to declare their intentions to turn the information space into a field of combat so openly. France has almost officially adopted a course on the militarization of social networks, on the transformation of the auxiliary tools…

In September, China raised a United Nations Security Council resolution related to the 1998 nuclear blast tests by India and Pakistan to prevent the possible maiden trial of nuclear-capable inter-continental ballistic missile, Agni-5, which can hit targets more than 5,000km away with high precision.On Wednesday, the Indian Army’s strategic forces command successfully tested the country’s longest-range missile, Agni 5, which is able to reach all Asian countries and parts of Africa and Europe. The defence ministry said that the successful launch of the missile is in line with India’s policy to have “credible minimum deterrence” that underpins the commitment to ‘No…

By Rep. Ron Paul President Biden’s “townhall” meeting this past week was a disaster. From his bizarre poses to the incoherent answers, it seemed to confirm America’s worst fears about a president we are told was elected by the most voters ever. Though he didn’t bother campaigning, we are to believe he somehow motivated the most voters in history to pull the lever in his favor. Or mail in a ballot in his favor. Or something. After the townhall, the Wall Street Journal was early among mainstream media publications to observe that the emperor has no clothes. In an editorial titled…