Author: Steven Sahiounie

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to meet with Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian at a BRICS summit in Kazan in October, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia. “The Iranian side has an invitation and we hope that the new president comes to the summit. We will be happy to see him, and President Putin is getting ready for the upcoming meeting,” the Kremlin official said. Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told TASS that Russia and Iran had put the finishing touches on a comprehensive cooperation treaty, setting the stage for the signing of this historic document. In turn, IRNA reported that Iran’s new president told his Russian counterpart in a phone conversation about…

High-ranking dignitaries from different countries have arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran to take part in President Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration ceremony. The Iranian parliament’s ICANA news agency reported on Monday that officials from Cuba, Columbia, Mongolia, Malta, Niger, Libya, Gambia, Sudan, Myanmar, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Madagascar have so far arrived in Tehran. They are expected to attend a ceremony at the parliament on Tuesday afternoon, during which Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, will officially swear in as Iran’s new president. Pezeshkian will take the oath of office before Iranian lawmakers, as well as the Judiciary chief, and members of the Constitutional Council.…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened the Israeli regime on Sunday that Turkey would send forces to occupied Palestine to support the Palestinian people. “We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to Palestine,” he said, referring to the Israeli ongoing genocide in Gaza. “Just as we entered [Nagorno-]Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them. There is nothing we can’t do. We must only be strong.” Directly after his statement, top Israeli officials went hysteric, even threatening the Turkish president that he would face the same fate as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In…

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has secured a third term, according to the country’s electoral authority.  National Electoral Council head Elvis Amoroso announced that Maduro received 51% of the vote, defeating his rival Edmundo Gonzalez, who garnered 44%. He stated that the results were based on data from 80% of the voting stations. After the announcement of Maduro’s victory in the presidential election, celebrations spread across the country, and the president celebrated his win with supporters at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. In his first speech after being named the winner of Sunday’s presidential election, Maduro asked for respect for “the sovereign…

By: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Ambassador Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the UN, and now director of USAID, an office of the US State Department, traveled to Armenia on July 10 to strong-arm Prime MInister Nikol Pashinyan into buying gas from Azerbaijan, instead of Russia. Armenia currently imports almost all of its hydrocarbons from Russia and Iran via gas pipeline. The President Joe Biden administration supports the war in Ukraine by providing billions of dollars of weapons to Ukraine to fight Russia. Prior to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline being destroyed, Biden had made a speech promising…

Gazprom supplies gas for Europe through Ukraine in the volume of 42.4 mln cubic meters per day via the Sudzha gas pumping station in Russia’s Kursk Region, a Gazprom representative told reporters, adding that the request for pumping via the Sokhranovka gas pumping station has been rejected by the Ukrainian side.

The threat remains of wheat imports to the country by gray schemes and its reexport by motor transport from border regions of the Russian Federation

The Justice Department late Friday filed its response to TikTok’s civil suit aimed at derailing a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban.

G20 nations have agreed to work together to make the super-rich pay their taxes, but stopped short of a more substantial deal, according to a declaration adopted Friday after a meeting of finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro.

A jury on Friday found that Abbott Laboratories’ specialized formula for premature infants caused an Illinois girl to develop a dangerous bowel disease, ordering the healthcare company to pay $95 million in compensatory damages.