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  Things not entirely peaceful in Baghdad

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2021

  IN MARCH, prime minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi convened a conference that he said would give people hope in the ‘turbulent’ political system that emerged following the...

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  Yemen on the brink of disaster

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on February 18, 2021

  US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has lifted a series of sanctions against the Yemen Ansar Allah (Houthis) movement, which was listed as a terrorist organisation by...

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  When and how negotiations are going to be held

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on February 14, 2021

  UN SECRETARY general António Guterres called on the United States and Iran to work together to break the current impasse over the international nuclear agreement,...

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  US, Israel play their cards in Middle East

  by Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on January 28, 2021

  The possession of nuclear weapons gives the Israelis a phantom sense of military superiority in the Persian Gulf region and the entire Middle East, which...

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  What awaits Iran and the region this year?

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on January 18, 2021

  ‘IRAN can easily enrich uranium to 40, 60 or even 90 per cent,’ claimed Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran. Earlier,...

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  The Middle East: a new US policy?

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on December 08, 2020

  AS THE official date of the so-called ‘democratic elections’ for the new US president drifts further and further into the past, there are more reports...

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  Middle East in the vortex of the US election

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2020

  ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the gumption natural to him, sent his ‘warm congratulations’ to Joe Biden on his, as the Israeli World Israel...

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  Azerbaijan and plans of Israeli politicians

  by Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on October 23, 2020

  AS THE conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh mushrooms, the Israeli-Azerbaijani arms trade is flourishing, and in this case Netanyahu’s government is being chiefly guided by economic benefits,...

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  When will Palestinian issue be resolved?

  Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on October 07, 2020

  PRESIDENT of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations to convene an international conference on the Middle East...

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  Futile attempts made by Washington

  by Viktor Mikhin | Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2020

  PERMANENT representative of Niger to the United Nations Abdou Abarry, who took over as president of the UN Security Council, said he supported the statement...