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Iran ‘thwarts Mossad attempt to assassinate nuclear scientist’ — RT News
Iran ‘thwarts Mossad attempt to assassinate nuclear scientist’ — RT News. Iran claims it has foiled an assassination attempt against one of its nuclear scientists by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. A senior Iranian security official said the Revolutionary Guards thwarted the attempt. “In the last two years, the Zionist enemy (Israel) was trying hard […]
Do Economic Sanctions Work? by Kenneth Rogoff – Project Syndicate
Do Economic Sanctions Work? by Kenneth Rogoff – Project Syndicate. CAMBRIDGE – With Western economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Cuba in the news, it is a good time to take stock of the debate on just how well such measures work. The short answer is that economic sanctions usually have only modest effects, even […]
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia Upcoming 2015 year will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia, Pepe Escobar believes. BEIJING, December 31 (Sputnik) — Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the Empire of Chaos. So yes – it […]
Target Liberty: Who’s A Threat To Whom?
Target Liberty: Who’s A Threat To Whom?. Apparently, Russia’s new military doctrine lists NATO, US as major foreign threats. Are those crazy Ruskies out of their mind. NATO and the U.S. (sorry for repeating myself) are just minding their own business. Just look at the map: You know who else is a threat? Those crazy mullahs […]
Iran stages massive military display to ‘send message of peace’ to neighbors — RT News
Iran stages massive military display to ‘send message of peace’ to neighbors — RT News. Iran has launched a six-day exercise involving all branches of its military. The large-scale, armed forces display is meant as a demonstration of defense capabilities and a test of new weapons, Iranian officials said. Codenamed Mohammad Rasoulallah (Mohammad, the Messenger […]
Any OPEC Solidarity Break Seen by Iran Sending Oil Lower – Bloomberg
Any OPEC Solidarity Break Seen by Iran Sending Oil Lower – Bloomberg. Any break in OPEC solidarity or a price war will drive crude to below $50 or even $40 a barrel,Iran’s oil ministry head of petroleum market analysis said. Middle East crude producers Saudi Arabia and Iraq this month increased the discounts used to set the […]
ISIL and Iran to dominate Gulf Arab summit – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
ISIL and Iran to dominate Gulf Arab summit – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. Gulf Arab leaders have arrived in the Qatari capital for a summit expected to push forward plans for a unified military command and an Interpol-like agency to counter regional foe Iran and self-declared jihadist groups. Foreign ministers from the six-member […]
Why a Moscow meltdown could spread around the globe | World news | The Observer
Why a Moscow meltdown could spread around the globe | World news | The Observer. Russia matters. It mattered in 1998 when the shock waves from its debt default reverberated around the world. And it would matter again should the plunging oil price lead to economic collapse. That’s despite the fact that Russia is a […]
Russia Signs Deal With Iran To Build 8 Nuclear Power Units | Zero Hedge
Russia Signs Deal With Iran To Build 8 Nuclear Power Units | Zero Hedge. With this year’s APEC meeting in China having just barely concluded, where the biggest news was not the inability of the US to make any material headway in trans-Pacific trade (who needs trade when you have a printer?) or that China is “willing” […]
Iran Unleashes Reverse-Engineered US Drone In First Test Flight | Zero Hedge
Iran Unleashes Reverse-Engineered US Drone In First Test Flight | Zero Hedge. Almost three years ago, Iran reportedly downed a US drone. The RQ-170 Sentinel recon drone that was reportedly captured has apparently been reverse-engineered, and now, asReuters reports, Iran state news agency IRNA reports the drone-clone has taken its first flight. Iran’s Supreme Leader noted, […]
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge. Saudi Arabia is the middle of two ‘wars” – religious (from The Kingdom’s perspective, Iran is a large Persian country sitting at the easternmost edge of the Middle East, from where it projects power across the Arab world by manipulating and exploiting the region’s Shiite communities and other minorities) Via Stratfor, […]
‘Saudi policy of downplaying oil prices to backfire on them’ — RT Op-Edge
‘Saudi policy of downplaying oil prices to backfire on them’ — RT Op-Edge. Saudi Arabia wants to use lower oil prices to pressure Russia to change its stance on Syria, to antagonize Iran, and to force US shale gas out of the market, roving correspondent for the Asia Times Pepe Escobar told RT. RT: Russia’s economy […]
Peak oil review – Oct 20
Peak oil review – Oct 20. 1. Oil and the Global Economy Oil prices continued to fall through Thursday when New York futures traded below $80 a barrel and London as low as $82.60. Prices then rebounded to close Friday at $82.75 in NY and $86.15 in London. As has been the case for several weeks, the 25 percent […]
WTI Gains for Third Day as Iran Seeks Halt to Price Drop – Bloomberg
WTI Gains for Third Day as Iran Seeks Halt to Price Drop – Bloomberg. Brent crude traded for a fifth day close to a level that’s prompting speculation that OPEC will respond by cutting supply. West Texas Intermediate, which fell into a bear market this month, extended a rally. Brent, the global benchmark, rose or […]
