Author: Steven Sahiounie

The United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, called for the timetable stipulated in the roadmap of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to be respected. In a series of Tweets, Williams expressed that she had discussed challenges facing the electoral process following the High National Elections Commission (HNEC)’s declaration of force majeure, “recalled the timeline laid out in the LPDF roadmap,” and “stressed the need to respect the will of the 2.5 million Libyans who collected their voter registrations cards and called for urgent and serious efforts to address the crisis of legitimacy facing Libya’s national institutions.” Two…

As Iranian knowledge-based people, despite their ability to supply, face sales problems, It is necessary to design specialized plans with the participation of the private and public sectors and to facilitate government agencies, Meysam Abbasi tells Bazaar in an exclusive interview. He also says that due to our economy is essentially based on the sale of oil and gas and raw materials, there is a need to move towards a knowledge-based economy rather than just a basic oil economy. Meysam Abbasi, is the head of the Institute of Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence , and the director of the Innovation Department of Iran…

Some of those creme de la creme in the world of wealth, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, for example, have been worth $100 billion for quite some time: Gates first made it in 1999, while Bezos did so in 2017. The majority of the others, on the other hand, are basically newcomers to the 12-digit club.According to the newest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the world’s top ten wealthiest people are all worth more than $100 billion by the end of 2021.The 10 wealthiest billionaires increased their net worth by $402.17 billion in 2021. They were led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who…

Russia and the United States have begun talks on security guarantees in Geneva,. The meeting is being held in a closed format on the territory of the US Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva. The central issue of the talks is expected to be Russia’s security suggestions for NATO and Washington, which include, in particular, provisions on the mutual non-deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles, non-expansion of NATO eastward and reduction of military exercises.The Russian delegation is headed by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. The US delegation is led by Deputy…

Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in a protest in support of Nasser Abu Hamid, a cancer patient held in Israeli jails, amid a serious deterioration in his health condition. Palestinian sources said that clashes erupted between young protesters and Israeli troops near the entrance to the town of Beita, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on Sunday evening as Palestinians gathered to voice solidarity with Abu Hamid. The protesters chanted slogans such as “Nasser, Go! Go! We are behind you until your liberation.” Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs,…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Kazakastan descended into chaos and street violence on January 1.  What appears to be a popular uprising against the government has an organized crime network calling the shots from a central headquarters, according to officials. Almaty, the biggest and most prosperous Kazakh city, was turned into a war zone littered with dead bodies, burned buildings and incinerated cars. The government recently announced a sharp price hike in fuel prices, and the protests began afterwards.  The true source of the unrest has less to do with price increases than a power struggle of the loyalists…

The missiles were showcased a few days after the latest round of talks on the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal kicked off in Vienna. The US State Department reportedly said that Iran should “add real urgency” to the negotiations or risk losing any chance of the accord being revived.Three Iranian short-range ballistic missiles have been put on display in central Tehran, with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps describing them as already-known models.The showcase of the missiles, known as Dezful, Qiam, and Zolfaghar with official ranges of up to 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), come amid the ongoing Vienna…

The prominent Iranian general was killed in a drone strike ordered by then-US President Donald Trump on 3 January 2020. Tehran responded with a barrage of rockets aimed at Iraqi bases hosting American troops days later, but noted that it was only the beginning.Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, has warned that Iran will take “hard revenge” for the assassination of the previous head of the force, General Qassem Soleimani, and that the retribution will come “from within the US”. “We will prepare the ground for the hard revenge against the US…

Negotiations between Russia and the United States are scheduled to take place in the Swiss city of Geneva on 10 January, with talks between Moscow and NATO to follow on 12 January. The parties are set to discuss the tensions around Ukraine.The United States is ready to propose scaling back its troop deployment and military drills in Eastern Europe in the upcoming talks with Russia, NBC reported Friday, citing a current administration official and two former US national security officials familiar with the plans.According to the report, the Biden administration is considering suggesting that both the US and Russia address the scope…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator US-Russia talks in Geneva are to be held January 9-10. President Putin has presented issues to be discussed which are aimed to diffuse tensions over the Ukraine and Russian border situation. NATO has played a stronger role than the EU, and foreign ministers of the bloc will meet this week. Against this back-drop, the EU must face the fact that it is Washington and Moscow who are center stage in the political drama. Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Leonid Savin for his take on the situation and to gain insight into the unfolding story.…