Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th April, 2015
The integration of Iran into the international community is expected to be the last frontier in energy politics. No doubt, it will be a game changer and it would have an Asian vector and a European vector — and a Russian-American vector. The major players are gearing up for action to cope with the new great game in energy politics.
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Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2015
9th April, 2015
A controversial measure requiring the White House to submit any nuclear deal with Iran to Congress is losing support among Senate Democrats.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) urged Senate Foreign Relations Committee to postpone a vote on the legislation next week, minutes after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced her opposition to the bill.
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Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2015
Rouhani: Lausanne Understanding Shows West’s Despair in Sanctions Policy
6th April, 2015
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined that the common understanding achieved by Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) showed that the western countries have come to realize inefficiency of their sanctions and pressures against Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2015
Official Says US Fears Failure in Isolating Russia Amid May 9 Celebrations
Head of the foreign-affairs committee of the Russian State Duma Alexei Pushkov claims that Washington fears its attempts to isolate Russia from the Western world are failing as seen in the US reaction to Czech President Milos Zeman’s plan to visit Moscow’s WWII parade celebrations in May.
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Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2015
5th April, 2015
Iran and the world powers have reached a new milestone by agreeing to a new framework for a final deal that would end the Iran nuclear crisis and put Iran on a new path in its relations with the international community.
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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2015
13th March, 2015
The website of Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledges that NATO has played a “central role” in the country’s security and insists that Turkey, which became a member in 1952, “attaches utmost importance” to it. Yet Turkey’s commitment to the alliance has never seemed more ambivalent than it does now.
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Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2015
18th March, 2015
An annual security report submitted recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, removed both Iran and Hezbollah from the list of terrorism threats to the United States for the first time in years.
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Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2015
11th March, 2015
A great deal of drama has been recently evident in the global media portraying a “personal” rift between the US president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Posted by seumasach on March 9, 2015
The big Russian scare is also a useful pretext for sidelining NATO and furthering European integration and independence
8th March, 2015
The European Commission chief has called for the creation of an “EU joint army” that would “react credibly” to any external threat and defend the bloc’s “values.” While the UK and France are wary it could undermine NATO, Germany has backed the idea.
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Posted by seumasach on March 9, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
5th March, 2015
The US-Iran negotiations have successfully crossed the boulder that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw in the way via his outreach to the American lawmakers. The conclusion can be safely drawn after Netanyahu’s speech that neither do the US lawmakers feel emboldened to enact new legislation intended to complicate the US-Iran talks nor is President Barack Obama feeling browbeaten to backtrack on his policy toward Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on March 8, 2015
Italy’s Prime Minister Renzi Meets Putin in Moscow
5th March, 2015
MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized economic ties Thursday as he welcomed Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, the first major European leader to make an official visit to Moscow since Russia annexed Crimea a year ago.
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