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Islamic Caliphate is dead, but its dangerous and infectious ideology is alive

10:32 15.03.2019

Islamic Caliphate is dead, but its dangerous and infectious ideology is alive

The year 2019 witnessed the rout of the Islamic Caliphate - the pseudo-state entity created on the territories of Iraq and Syria by the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a.k.a. the Islamic State or IG, ISIL, Daesh (Arabic), a terrorist group outlawed in the Russian Federation. …

EU sets in motion special mechanism against US sanctions

11:38 05.02.2019

EU sets in motion special mechanism against US sanctions

According to French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, the EU’s updated Blocking Statute mechanism of maintaining financial, economic and trade relations with Iran, aimed at mitigating the impact of Washington’s sanctions on EU companies doing business with Tehran, will take effect within the next few days.However, the French minister stood …

Ayatollah Khomeini - strategist, practitioner and mastermind of the Islamic revolution in Iran (To the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran)

12:52 31.01.2019

Ayatollah Khomeini - strategist, practitioner and mastermind of the Islamic revolution in Iran (To the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran)

The year 2019 marks 40 years to the Islamic Republic of Iran. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic revolution won in Iran. The last shahinshah of the Persian Empire, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown. The 2500-year history of the Persian Monarchy came to a close.Undoubtedly, the Islamic revolution in Iran …

John Bolton's Hawkish Flight

12:04 18.01.2019

John Bolton's Hawkish Flight

The American edition of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing former and currently serving politicians who wished not to be named, reported a few days ago that the US National Security Council (NSC), led by presidential adviser John Bolton, turned to the Pentagon last autumn with a request to devise …

Iran: Recapping the year 2018

14:56 05.01.2019

Iran: Recapping the year 2018

With the year 2018 according to the Christian calendar now out and 2019 now setting in, people traditionally sum up the results of the past year. Even though the Iranian new year of 1398 is still three months away, we will stick to the Russian tradition and look back on …

Iran: Which way to go?

16:03 05.12.2018

Iran: Which way to go?

The US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), seriously hampered the chances for keeping the landmark accord in place.The accord, signed in 2015 by the P5+1 group of countries — China, Germany, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — with Iran, requires Tehran to …

Tehran Conference 75 Year On: How It All Happened

12:21 30.11.2018

Tehran Conference 75 Year On: How It All Happened

Seventy-five years ago, on November 28 - December 1, 1943, the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain – the three great Allied powers waging a bloody battle against fascism - were meeting in the Iranian capital Tehran. The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was the first …

Israeli-Iranian Nuclear Standoff: So Far Only Verbal

13:27 10.10.2018

Israeli-Iranian Nuclear Standoff: So Far Only Verbal

A few days ago Israel and Iran traded accusations of harboring nuclear ambitions. Speaking at the 73rd session of UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about nuclear materials and equipment allegedly stored somewhere in Tehran.The Iranian response did not take long coming with an enraged Foreign Minister …

Will Iran be able to counteract US sanctions?

15:17 24.09.2018

Will Iran be able to counteract US sanctions?

American sanctions and how to confront themThe Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) today, as in the past 40 years of its existence, is in the global spotlight as the focus of major political and economic developments.As you know, on May 8, US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the …

History Repeats Itself

18:15 18.06.2018

History Repeats Itself

Recently former Israeli Mossad Director Tamir Pardo said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to attack Iran in 2011. [i]Mr Pardo stressed that the order given to servicemen for the preparation of the attack was not a training exercise. Tel Aviv planned to launch an attack within 15 days, …

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