“Escalation is in no one’s interest,” Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesperson, told reporters in a briefing on Monday. He added that the United States did not consider escalation “inevitable” and was sending messages to Iran through its allies in the region that a...
Military experts have called Iran's ariel attack on Israel on Saturday night "ambitious" and warn it could push an already fragile region into a dangerous new phase. On the Sky News Daily, host Matt Barbet examines how Iran and Israel's "shadow war" has moved out into the open, alongside...
Turkey agrees with Iran’s view in this context. Ankara has used the HTS attack to mobilize Syrian militias to attack Kurds. Iran believes it can spread conspiracies about Israel and the US to garner support in Ankara and Moscow. “I had detailed and important discussions with Bashar al-Assa...
Why Israel would never attack IranAvnery, Uri
For years the Assad family regime, more recently as part of Iran’s “axis of resistance”, had been Israel’s bitterest enemy. Now, within a matter of days, the military threat it posed was eliminated. Some Israeli military commentators went as far as to describe the operation as more ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seen following the attack on Iran, October 26, 2024 (credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO) What effect does it have on Israel at war? Israel’s security policy is in flux, and Gallant’s exit could drive a sharper military focus in Ga...
So, the U.S., with its thousands of nuclear weapons, is restricting Iran from developing them, at least partly to protect its “ally,” Israel. But why does Israel need its protection? It’s interesting, and more than a little troubling, thatIsrael is one of the few nuclear-armed count...
And on the world's hotspot issues like the protracted Ukraine crisis and the still-raging Palestine-Israel conflict, they have their distinctive points of view. As British scholar Martin Jacques has argued, the Global South needs the right of their civilizations to be heard and represented. ...
Oil prices were falling sharply on Monday. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, declined 6% to $67.50 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, dropped 5.6% to $71.37 a barrel. Both contracts are down more than 10% over the past three mo
Pivotal moment: Why US wants deal with IranPepe Escobar