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Desertification: An Existential Crisis For Iran
Desertification: An Existential Crisis For Iran Iran is grappling with severe desertification and water scarcity, leading to potentially uninhabitable territories, contributing to internal migration and posing a threat of mass exodus. Tehran’s attempts to mitigate water scarcity have led to dam-building and water-intensive irrigation projects that have contributed to the drying up of rivers and […]
Iran Opens Export Terminal To Bypass World’s Biggest Oil Chokepoint
Iran Opens Export Terminal To Bypass World’s Biggest Oil Chokepoint Iran says it has opened its first oil export terminal in the Gulf of Oman to allow Tehran to avoid using the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping route that has long been a focus of regional tensions. “Today, the first shipment of 100 tons of […]
Expect Up To 40% Of Tehran’s Population To Be Infected In 2 Weeks: Iranian Health Official
Expect Up To 40% Of Tehran’s Population To Be Infected In 2 Weeks: Iranian Health Official With the daily soaring infection rate and death toll inside Iran officially at 124 deaths amid 4747 confirmed cases as of early Friday — though true numbers are believed much higher — all eyes are on the largely unprepared country given it’s the biggest outbreak epicenter outside […]
No Survivors After Ukraine-Bound 737 Crashes Two Minutes Into Flight From Tehran
No Survivors After Ukraine-Bound 737 Crashes Two Minutes Into Flight From Tehran Update: There were no survivors in the Ukraine International 737-800 which crashed shortly after takeoff from Iran, according to the head of the Iranian Red Crescent’s Relief and Rescue Organization in an appearance on state television. The New York Times, meanwhile, reports that the plane was […]
Iran Again Blocks Internet & Mobile Service Ahead Of Protesters’ Funerals
Iran Again Blocks Internet & Mobile Service Ahead Of Protesters’ Funerals Fearing the potential for renewed protests and violent clashes with police, Iran has again blocked internet and mobile access to broad section of the country on Wednesday. This as several funerals will be held over the coming days for protesters killed last month amid a […]
UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters
UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters France announced Sunday that a proposed European-led mission to patrol the Persian Gulf will be based out of a recently established French naval base in Abu Dhabi, and that the naval patrol will soon go “operational” amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. Paris has spearheaded efforts to […]
Iran Deploys 2 Warships To Escort Commercial Vessels As Zarif Flies To Beijing After G-7
Iran Deploys 2 Warships To Escort Commercial Vessels As Zarif Flies To Beijing After G-7 The threshold to an armed conflict around the Persian Gulf just got even smaller. On Monday, Iran said it had deployed two warships – a destroyer and a helicopter carrier – to protect the country’s commercial vessels around the Gulf […]
Washington’s wager concerning Iran
Washington’s wager concerning Iran Even more than Syria, Iran is now at the heart of the confrontation between East and West. The astounded public is witnessing Washington’s daily about-turns in what seems – mistakenly – to be an escalation towards war between the two countries. But this is not what it is about. Fortunately, the […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Accelerating Imperial Decline
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Accelerating Imperial Decline Washington’s foreign policy towards Iran is driven by desperation rather than a reasoned understanding of a world in historically significant flux. That can lead only to a continuing succession of failures. The kinetic events of the past week in Washington, Tehran, and the Persian Gulf were nothing if not revealing. President […]
Trump Messaged Iran With Last Second Opening For Talks Just Before Calling Off Strikes: Report
Trump Messaged Iran With Last Second Opening For Talks Just Before Calling Off Strikes: Report More dramatic details have trickled out this morning surrounding last night’s US military strike operations on Iran, which were reportedly called off at the last moment by President Trump even as American ships and missile batteries were in position, even including planes in the […]
Trump Says Tanker Attack Has “Iran Written All Over It” As Tehran Slams US “False Flag”
Trump Says Tanker Attack Has “Iran Written All Over It” As Tehran Slams US “False Flag” Iran has slammed what it’s mission to the United Nations said are “unfounded and reckless” claims put forth yesterday by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accusing Iran of conducting the “blatant” attack on two international oil tankers in the Gulf […]
Saudis Claim Iran Ordered Aramco Pipeline Drone Attack
Saudis Claim Iran Ordered Aramco Pipeline Drone Attack Saudi Arabia on Thursday blamed Iran for ordering an attack early this week on two Aramco pipeline booster stations, a strike that was intended as part of a broader sabotage campaign to disrupt world oil supplies, according to Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih. The drone attacks came one day after a string of attacks on […]
