Author: Steven Sahiounie

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks before the Russian Duma, and stresses that the model of cooperation between Russia and Iran in Syria bore fruit thanks to the resistance of the Syrian people, and that terrorism is a result of hegemony. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Thursday that strengthening relations with Russia reflects Iran’s position of dealing with all countries, especially neighboring countries for the benefit of our peoples. Raisi added, during a speech he gave to the Russian State Duma, that Iran trusts and believes in improving relations with Russia, noting that there are great prospects for this today.…

The West is threatening Russia with crippling sanctions over potential conflict with Ukraine The Western media, as well as multiple US officials, have repeatedly warned of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine over the past few months and threatened Moscow with severe sanctions if this happens. Washington and its allies have cited the movement of Russian troops within the country’s vast Western territory as ‘proof’ of such plans. Moscow has consistently denied the allegations, insisting it has a right to carry out military maneuvers within its borders as it pleases. What additional sanctions could Russia face? Washington and its allies…

The USS Benfold illegally enters the South China Sea in another one of Washington’s provocations against China. On Thursday, a US warship – the USS Benfold – sailed through the South China Sea, which prompted a warning from Chinese military as tensions escalate in the region. The Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said that the ship “illegally” entered Chinese waters, and that the PLA “organized naval and air forces to engage in tracking and monitoring as well to warn and drive [the destroyer] away,” according to the statement. In response, the US navy said that the…

On Tuesday, benchmark oil prices rose to their highest level since 2014, owing to the possibility of supply disruption following attacks in the Middle East Gulf, which contributed to an already tight supply outlook. At 14:46 GMT, Brent crude futures were up $0.74, or 0.9%, to $87.22 per barrel. WTI crude futures in the United States rose $1.07, or 1.3%, to $84.89. Due to a federal holiday in the United States, trading was light on Monday. Concerns about supply have grown this week when Yemen’s Armed Forces attacked the UAE, in response to an ongoing aggression on Yemen. Geopolitical tension After launching…

The Russian-Iranian summit took place in Moscow today, Wednesday, where Russian President Vladimir Putin received his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi, at the beginning of the meeting, made it clear that there will be no limits to “expanding and developing relations with friendly Russia,” noting that “relations with Russia will develop into strategic ones.” He said, “In light of the policy of the United States and the West, our relations must be stronger,” adding, “We have been confronting the United States with Russia for 40 years.” The Iranian president hopes that Iran’s efforts to lift the sanctions off Iran will…

George Nader was an American adviser to the government of the United Arab Emirates, to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed’s, while also being a convicted sex offender. According to federal court documents in December, an American adviser to the United Arab Emirates, George Nader, has pleaded guilty to assisting the UAE in pumping millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions during the 2016 US presidential elections. Nader is a convicted sex offender with repeated visits to the White House. Federal prosecutors revealed that Nader had agreed months earlier to plead guilty to a single count of criminal conspiracy…

Mail from Canada has been declared a suspected source of an Omicron infection case in Beijing by the Chinese authorities A person diagnosed with Omicron infection in Beijing might have contracted the disease by handling documents that arrived by mail from Canada, the Chinese health authorities have revealed on Monday. Covid-19 infections are typically associated with personal contacts since health specialists around the world believe the virus mainly spreads when infected people breath, cough, or sneeze. China’s health authorities, however, have recently claimed that an Omicron strain survived a long trip from Canada to China in a mail shipment of…

Western officials and media have spent months alleging that Russia may be preparing to invade its Ukrainian neighbour and building up troops on the border. Moscow has dismissed the claims, and accused NATO of playing up the Russian bogeyman as a pretext to continue the alliance’s eastward crawl. The Russian Foreign Ministry has dismissed reporting by the New York Times about a “slow evacuation” of the country’s Embassy in Kiev in possible “preparation for a conflict” with Ukraine. “The Russian Embassy in Kiev is working normally,” a ministry spokesperson told reporters Tuesday. Separately, a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman also announced…

Residents of Burqa village in Nablus are standing up to the occupation forces’ attempt to set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village, where more than 10 Palestinians were injured by tear gas and rubber bullets. The residents of Burqa village in Nablus confronted the Israeli occupation forces’ attempt to set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village, where more than 10 Palestinians were injured due to tear gas and rubber bullets. In the same context, Palestinian youths confronted dozens of Israeli settlers who stormed the Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus under the protection of the occupation…

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- The Israeli occupation forces forcibly expelled a Palestinian family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the occupied city of Jerusalem. Mahmoud Salhia said in a statement to Maan News Agency that a large number of occupation forces stormed the neighborhood and raided his house after besieging it from all sides and forcing him to evict it. In a crime that is added to the record of its crimes against the Palestinians, the occupation authorities last year handed dozens of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem received demolition or evacuation…