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Why Is Tel Aviv Pursuing the Annulment of the Oslo Accords?
Israel's ministerial legislative committee is reviewing a bill aimed at formally annulling the Oslo Accords — the landmark 1993 agreement signed with the Palestine Liberation Organization. The bill was introduced by Knesset Deputy Speaker Limor Son Har-Melech, who wrote on X: "We promised to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and now the time has come to expand settlements…
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Greater Israel Dream Resurfaces Through U.S. Diplomat’s Words
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, recently declared that Israel holds a right — grounded in "God's promise to Abraham" — to expand its control over broad swaths of Middle Eastern territory. The statement was not a diplomatic slip. Analysts across the region are treating it as a window…
Iran: A Calm Between Two Storms
Just before the new year, Iran witnessed one of the most violent protest movements it has seen in recent years. What began as strike actions by Tehran shopkeepers — protesting the sharp collapse of the Iranian rial against the dollar and the resulting inflation — quickly evolved, over the following…
Why Do Warships Arrive with Smiles?
The simultaneous military posturing by Washington alongside explicit messages about imposing “livelihood pressure” on Iranians indicates that the United States’ main equation is not direct war, but the engineering of economic and social attrition. The deployment of warships is less a prelude to conflict and more a bargaining tool to…
Iran: No Negotiations Under Threat, Ready for Both Talks and War
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi delivered a firm message to the United States during a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Istanbul, revealing that Washington has repeatedly requested negotiations through various intermediaries while simultaneously maintaining a posture of military threats. "The US government has repeatedly…
Iraq’s Political Shift: Maliki Nomination Signals New Era
The nomination of Nouri al-Maliki for Iraq's premiership marks a pivotal transformation in the country's political trajectory, setting the stage for potential confrontation with American interests in the region. aliki, widely perceived as maintaining close ties with Tehran, faces significant opposition from U.S.-aligned parties and coalitions within Iraq's fragmented political…
The Joint Room: Prelude to the Next War?
As global attention remains fixed on American interventions and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Washington is quietly advancing a security and economic arrangement between Syria and the Israeli regime—a proposal that threatens to reproduce rather than resolve crises in West Asia. ecent developments surrounding Syria reveal that the American…