When the regime’s television host asked him about the video showing concrete being poured into the Arak reactor’s pipes to block them, Ali Akbar Salehi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran responded: “[N]ot the pipes you see here. We had purchased similar pipes, but I couldn’t announce it at that time…. We needed to be smart.” — Iran Focus, August 2, 2022.
“The US has started packing its bags to leave the Middle East. It is no longer able to impose maximum pressure on us.” — Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, August 4, 2022.
n curând, până în 2030, vom trece de la democrație la un guvern mondial totalitar. Trebuie doar să aruncați o privire la Agenda 21 pentru a fi convins.
Moins d’une semaine après l’attaque du camp de Kati, où vit le président Assimi Goïta, le groupe jihadiste clame dans une vidéo qu’il s’est déployé autour de Bamako pour y intervenir « de jour comme de nuit ».
La vidéo dure quatre minutes. Face à la caméra, Mahamoud Barry, dit Abou Yahya, un membre du Conseil de la Choura, l’organe décisionnaire du Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (GSIM), d’Iyad Ag Ghaly, apparaît en boubou marron, un turban blanc sur la tête. L’intéressé a un message à adresser aux Maliens et, pour l’exprimer, il a choisi le bamanankan.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum’s joint address with the FBI Chief on 6 July saw a welcome rebalancing of the security service’s focus towards nation-state threats. Counterterrorism is an important function, but it was allowed to dominate for two decades while Russia, China and other belligerent states were insufficiently monitored.
As evidence mounts that the Global South is leaning closer to the Russia–China position over Ukraine, the West needs to think hard about how to regain the initiative in the narrative battle.
The Ukraine war has further entrenched and exacerbated the geopolitical rivalry between the West and the Russia–China camp. This new ‘Superpower Plus’ clash leaves the so-called ‘Rest’ in a difficult position, with some countries feeling pressure to choose sides, and others trying to remain neutral. Worryingly, many are leaning closer to the Russia–China position than the West.
This paper examines the perceptions of Iran and the six GCC states of the interaction between the Iranian nuclear issue and regional security dynamics in the Gulf.
This paper endeavours to capture the perspectives of Iran and the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states on the interactions between the Iranian nuclear programme, international nuclear diplomacy with Iran, and regional security in the Gulf and the wider Middle East.
Le mégaprojet de transport de gaz reliant l’Algérie, le Nigeria et le Niger permettra d’acheminer, à terme, du gaz nigérian vers l’Europe.
Largement dépendante du secteur minier, Kinshasa a officiellement lancé les appels d’offres pour 30 blocs pétro-gaziers (au lieu de 16 initialement prévus), dont deux appartenant au magnat israélien Dan Gertler. De quoi susciter l’appétit des géants.
Algeria will try to find a consensus about the return of Syria to the League in the upcoming meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, according to Asharq al-Awsat.
Algeria, as the host country of the next Arab League summit, still insists on Damascus’s invitation, an official of the Algerian Foreign Ministry has said.