by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 14, 2024 Assad and Larijani’s Message of Alliance: Standing with Palestine and Lebanon In the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Ali Larijani, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, have reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Palestine and Lebanon …
Read More »Why Israel Targets Syria: The Geopolitical Stakes of Damascus’s Support for the Resistance
by Mohamed Nader Al-Omari, published on The Cradle, November 1, 2024 Over the past decade, Syria has faced hundreds of Israeli air attacks claiming to primarily target weapons manufacturing, transport, and storage facilities. According to Tel Aviv, these strikes are intended to “cut off supply routes” from Iran to Lebanon’s …
Read More »Iran Decries Israel’s Deadly “Criminal Attack” in Syria
by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, September 9, 2024 A spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry called on Israel’s allies to “stop supporting and arming it.” The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes on central Syria late Sunday, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and prompting a …
Read More »Boiling the Israeli Frog in In Southwest Asia (video)
A lecture by Sharmine Narwani at the American University in Beirut, Posted by The Cradle, September 4, 2024 This talk really helps with a understanding a lot of issues occurring in the “Middle East” at this time, so that many people who oppose the wars, oppose the occupation of Palestine …
Read More »21st Int’l Meeting Final Statement Calls for Pushing Forward Astana Process to Combat Terrorism, Facilitate Refugee Return
from SANA, January 25, 2024 Astana, SANA- The guarantor states of the Astana Process have renewed their firm commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity and to the goals and principles of the UN Charter. The final statement of the guarantor states at the 21st International Meeting on …
Read More »The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani
by Judith Bello, January 19, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year. The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to …
Read More »Russia Grants Iran Permission to Utilize Hemeimeem Base in Syria
by SAWT AL-ASIMA (Opposition website), published on Syrian Observer, November 6th, 2023 For Russia, many fronts in the big war of resistance. ~Editor Russia has granted permission for Iranian aircraft originating from Tehran to land at the Hemeimeem military base in western Syria. This decision was made due to the …
Read More »Israeli Ambitions in Syria Rising The Day Before Hamas Put Them In Their Place
Editor’s Note: An Article by Zvi Bare’el, first published in Ha’aretz on October 6, they day before the Hamas breakout, and later on MSN.com, talks about increasingly direct intervention in Syria if the U.S. occupation ends. They refer to the U.S. occupied area as ‘economically important’ while they talk about …
Read More »Trouble Ahead for the US and Israel in Gaza
by Hasan Ilaik, published on The Cradle, October 18, 2023 As wholly expected, and in line with decades of its foreign policy, Washington has thrown its full weight behind “standing with Israel” and its genocidal onslaught on Gaza. But while the two allies’ public stances line up prettily at this …
Read More »Iran Says Any Scenario Plausible if Israeli War crimes Continue
from Tehran Times, October 13, 2023 During a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut, Hussein Amir Abdollahian said new unforeseen scenarios might unfold if Israel does not change its criminal behavior. “If the war crimes of the Zionist regime are not stopped, any possibility is conceivable,” said the …
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