M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th August, 2018
The Israeli press is awash with reports that US President Donald Trump is faithfully executing a containment strategy against Iran that was scripted in Tel Aviv by none other than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Posts Tagged ‘Iranian diplomacy’
Trump scores an own-goal in the game against Iran
Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2018
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Iran’s ‘Look East’ policy takes wings
Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
17th July, 2015
Most analysts blithely overlook that Iran also has a “Look East” dimension to its foreign policies and once it shakes off the shackles of the UN sanctions, it is that vector which is bound to become lively almost overnight, impacting the regional alignments in the South Asian region in a major way.
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Obama extracts GCC support for Iran deal
Posted by seumasach on May 20, 2015
M.K.bhadrakumar
The summing up of the meeting at Camp David on Thursday between President Barack Obama and “Heads of Delegations” of the Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] member states couldn’t have been an easy job. To begin with, the planned summit didn’t quite happen in the absence of several key leaders from the GCC side. Except for the leaders of Kuwait and Qatar, the other 4 declined the US invitation. Funnily, the king of Bahrain, an important regional ally that houses the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, preferred to instead visit a horse show in Britain.
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Iran: New frontier in energy politics
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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Israel’s Iran bluster won’t unnerve Obama
Posted by seumasach on November 12, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
12th November, 2014
Between optimism and pessimism stands ‘cautious optimism’ in the lexicon of diplomacy. But ‘relative optimism’? Yet, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Rybakov, one of the sharpest minds in the Moscow diplomatic armory, would have weighed his words with care and ingenuity when he remarked on Tuesday following the 2-day talks of the P5+1 and Iran talks in Muscat, Oman, that he is “relatively optimistic” about a nuclear treaty being concluded by the November 24 deadline. He added: “The glass is half full; (but) it’s not half empty.”
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Saudi-Iranian thaw will take time
Posted by seumasach on August 27, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
27th August, 2014
The interpretation that comes readily to mind regarding the visit to Riyadh by the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian and his talks on Tuesday with the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal would be that a thaw is in the offing in the ties between the two countries.
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US cagey on Iraq events, Iran upfront
Posted by seumasach on June 15, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
14th June, 2014
From a long-term perspective, there can be no two opinions that the US President Barack Obama has taken the right decision not to dispatch American combat troops to counter the al-Qaeda affiliate Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] which surged in the northern regions of Iraq earlier this week. In a nutshell, Obama’s statement late Friday can be summarized as follows in his own words:
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Turkish-Iranian ties get a makeover
Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th June, 2014
The two-day visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Turkey on Monday is invested with a lot of significance for the Middle Eastern politics. The glaring 18-year gap since the then President Hashemi Rafsanjani visited Turkey in 1996 flags what a complex relationship this has been between the two neighboring countries. Their hidden, unspoken rivalries as regional powers largely accounted for this complexity, laced with the perennial civilizational overtones that lurk below the surface.
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Iran, France to cooperate on Syria crisis
Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2014
In order to save appearances France are negotiating with a “B” team, rather as the UK did when they sent a delegation led by Jack Straw
25th January, 2014
Iran and France are to work together in a fresh joint effort to help resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria, a senior Iranian official says.
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Iran deal safe from US attacks, for now
Posted by seumasach on December 5, 2013
Jim Lobe
5th December, 2013
WASHINGTON – Ten days after the signing in Geneva of a groundbreaking deal on Iran’s nuclear program, the agreement appears safe from any serious attack by the strongly pro-Israel US Congress, at least for the balance of 2013.
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Iran opposes US-Afghan security pact
Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
4th December, 2013
The Iranian Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday advising Kabul not to proceed with the signing of the proposed status of forces agreement [SOFA] with Washington leading to the establishment of the American and NATO military bases in Afghanistan comes at a defining moment.
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