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US treasury secretary says sanctions on Iran failed to achieve ‘ideal’ result

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week acknowledged that US sanctions on Iran have not succeeded in forcing Tehran to change its policies and behavior as demanded by Washington but still have managed to create a “real economic…

Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War (The United States in the World)

by William Michael Schmidli William Michael Schmidli is a University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University. Schmidli’s research focuses on the evolving significance of human rights, democracy promotion, and transnational…
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Americans have sent more money to Ukraine than Russia on War

Americans have sent more money to Ukraine than Russia spends on its annual military budget. Russia spends about US$65 to 70 billion a year. The US sent more than $100 billion, including non-military aid, and plus there are the other NATO countries…
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Israel shuts Palestine radio offices in East Jerusalem

Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, on Monday ordered the closure of the Voice of Palestine radio station's offices in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports.A statement by Ben-Gvir's office attributed…
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US leadership role in Middle East facing deep challenges

China's shock success at bringing Saudi Arabia and Iran together has challenged the United States' longstanding role as the key outside power broker in the Middle East. Beijing's persuading archrivals Riyadh and Tehran to reestablish diplomatic…
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Senior Iranian official visits UAE on heels of Saudi deal

 A senior Iranian official visited the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, just days after Tehran agreed to restore diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia in a Chinese-brokered deal that raised hopes of a broader rapprochement…
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China has shattered the assumption of US dominance in the Middle East

By Nic Robertson With a grandiose diplomatic flourish China brokered a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, in the process upending US calculus in the Gulf and beyond. While the United States has angered its…
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Iran says ‘everything ready’ for prisoner exchange as US dismisses claims

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian suggested a prisoner exchange deal with the United States is imminent, though the claim was dismissed by an American official on Sunday, according to news agencies. “We reached an…
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US couldn’t be ‘honest broker’ in Saudi-Iran negotiations, says ex-Saudi intelligence chief

Neither the United States nor Europe would have been able to be an "honest broker" and secure a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran like the one China has helped obtain, former Saudi intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal…
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Iran and Belarus sign cooperation roadmap in Lukashenko visit

Iran and Belarus have signed a cooperation roadmap document during a state visit by President Alexander Lukashenko to Tehran. Lukashenko arrived in the Iranian capital late on Sunday and was officially received by Iranian President…