from Mehr News, September 29, 1982 Deputy Oil Minister Jalil Salari provided the information in an interview with Iranian media on Monday, as translated by Press TV website. The deal foresees the construction of “a new 140,000-barrel refinery,” whose required oil would be provided jointly by the Islamic Republic and …
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Interview with Glenn Diesen by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, August 11. 2023 The Obama administration began the US military occupation of Syria in November 2015. Obama sold the public on the idea of fighting ISIS, but in reality military personnel of Syria, Russia, Iraq and Iran were already …
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by Ali Abunimah, published on Electronic Intifada, May 31, 2023 The videos associated with this article are particularly interesting and informative. [jb] Almost two decades ago, Jordan’s King Abdallah warned in a Washington Post interview of a so-called “Shiite crescent” stretching from Iran through Iraq and west to Lebanon. This …
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by Peter Ford, published on 21st Century Wire, May 19, 2023 It is hard to overstate the significance of Syria’s readmission to the Arab League and President Assad’s attendance at the Jeddah Arab summit. The significance goes way beyond Syria itself. Let’s get straight to the point. It’s a massive …
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From the News Desk at The Cradle, May 10, 2023 A four-way meeting was held in Moscow on 10 May between the foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkiye, and Iran to discuss the process of normalization between Ankara and Damascus. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized the importance of establishing …
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by Editor at Mideast Discourse, May 3, 2023 During his speech at the shrine of Sayyida Zainab, as part of his visit to Syria, President Raisi said that Syria remained robust despite 12 years of brutal war and massacres sponsored by “Israel and the United States”. “With the genesis of …
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by Editor, published on Mideast Discourse, May 3, 2023 President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday received Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who has arrived in Syria, heading a large ministerial delegation on a two-day visit to Syria. During the plenary talks with the Iranian President, President Bashar al-Assad said “the Syrian-Iranian relations …
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by Scott Ritter, published on Consortium News, April 24, 2023 While the world continues to come to grips with the reality — and consequences — of the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians. …
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by Alastair Crooke, published on Al Mayadeen, April 8, 2023 It is perhaps fitting that in the bloody tangle of US policy triggered by Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, and the elevation of Benjamin Netanyahu to the premiership in its wake, Syria was first and foremost the ‘head’ to this …
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by Hassan Illiak, published on The Cradle, April 4, 2023 The mid-March Moscow summit between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was notable for being publicized in advance. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war, Assad’s foreign visits have not been publicly revealed until after they …
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