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Category: Middle East

Sharing Responsibilities For Dip In Ties

Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi, the new President of Iran, has announced that his Government would try to take relations with India to new heights. Indian External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, […]

On Harassment & Character Assassination!

Ghada Oueiss was enjoying dinner with her husband in June 2020. The young lady, originally from Lebanon, is a leading journalist in Saudi Arabia. One of her colleagues dialled Ghada, […]

Position Versus Opposition?

Events following the departure of Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu after 12 consecutive years as Prime Minister of Israel were expected to be similar to Donald Trump’s after losing the Presidential Election […]

They Came To Baghdad

It seems that Saudi Arabia and Iran, considered as arch-rivals, are staging a détente in West Asia. Recent contacts between the Saudi and Iranian officials in the Iraqi capital of […]

Revolution, Evolution, Atavism!

In an article published in The Indian Express daily on June 30, 2021, Ramin Jahanbegloo stated that Ebrahim Raisi’s election as the President of Iran “represents a return to ideological […]

History Updated?

Well… the Neanderthals are not the original ancestors of Modern Humans or Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Remains of a previously unknown type of ancient human has recently been discovered at a […]

Cultural Diplomacy?

Does the Shiite Crescent, a term used to describe a geopolitical entity consisting of Iran, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, represent the mainstay of of Iran’s expansionist strategy in West […]

The Turning Point Of The Century?

Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati, commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi, has recently been elected as the President of Iran. The 60-year-old Raisi – a Conservative and Principlist Politician, and a Jurist – […]