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Iran to name ambassador to Saudi Arabia soon: FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has said that Iran will soon appoint an ambassador to Saudi Arabia. In remarks on Wednesday, said the arrangements for naming ambassador to Saudi Arabia are underway and will be announced…
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Exclusive: Iraqi finance committee deputy calls for diversification away from US dollar

Parliamentarian Hussain Mouanes is a member of the Finance Committee in the publicly-elected Iraqi Council of Representatives. He has been politically active through many different stages of Iraq’s recent history, including the Baathist era,…
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Former AFP head, Trump campaign aide register to lobby for Yemeni separatists amid peace talks

Tim Phillips, who resigned in 2021 as the longtime head of the Koch-backed grassroots group Americans for Prosperity after an alleged extramarital affair, has reemerged as an advocate for Yemeni separatists amid talks to end the country’s…
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UN Middle East envoy condemns deadly Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

The top UN official involved in the Middle East peace process raised the alarm on Tuesday following an Israeli military operation which reportedly killed more than a dozen Palestinians, including three commanders from the militant group, Islamic…
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Military Vets Share Dark Truths About Media Propaganda and America’s War Machine

A Journalism Speaker Series talk on April 18 focused on mass media propaganda in America’s wars, featuring two veterans — Diablo Valley College journalism professor Rosa Leither and high school Spanish teacher Eddie Falcon — who shared…
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Opinion: How to Withdraw From Iraq Within Five Years

By Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein Two decades of intervention March 2023 marked two decades since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Saddam Hussein is long gone, memories of the post–invasion civil war are fading (from the American mind,…