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Beijing is now placing energy security at the top of its strategic agenda following the February 28 confirmation of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death. China now faces a halt, enforced by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, to shipping through the...

China, Ali Khamenei, Block 2

L’Iran è una civiltà millenaria, la cui spada è pronta a uccidere il leone israeliano. Segue nostro Telegram . Che cosa sappiamo fino ad ora Sembrava un brutto scenario lontano, e invece è successo: sabato 28 febbraio 2026, l’entità sionista...

Italiano, Imperialism, Iran

A lonely convert quits cigarettes cold turkey in Ramadan, and the brutal withdrawal becomes the fire that burns her into a new life. Note: This is part two of a two-part story. Read Part 1 * * * Cold...

#Culture, #Life, featured

President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France will expand its atomic arsenal and could deploy nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries for the first time, as he unveiled an unprecedented plan to bolster security on the continent. Speaking from the...

World

Only one in four Americans approves of US strikes on Iran that have plunged the Middle East into chaos, while about half - including one in four Republicans - believe President Donald Trump is too willing...

MENA

Now that President Trump has launched an illegal, unprovoked war of choice on Iran , the next question inevitably becomes: how does this end? Or, what are some off ramps Trump can take to end it before the situation...

Perspectives

Europe’s rulers are sycophants for American empire. Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft In the aftermath of the new U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran , the...

Geopolitics, Article, Eldar Mamedov

Crystal clear analysis of why the Iranian government has decided to reject any attempt by Trump to stop the war on America’s terms. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Cross-posted from...

Geopolitics, Article, Iran

An energy price shock is very much a possibility, and Europe is not well-placed to cope with that. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture...

Energy, Finance, Geopolitics

A series of new polls show that the American public is overwhelmingly opposed to President Trump’s war on Iran. Nearly three days after the beginning of the joint U.S.-Israel attack, Trump and his top aides have offered a series of...

Iran, Israel, Polling

Three US F-15E fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait on Sunday, March 1, by Kuwaiti air defense systems. No deaths were reported. While an accidental shootdown can happen at any time in a complex warfighting environment, shooting down three...

Iran War, Block 3, F-15 Fighter

(PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory, describing them as a “dangerous escalation” within the broader pattern of ongoing violations against Lebanon and its sovereignty, as well as an extension of Israeli actions across the region. In...

News, Hamas Movement, Israeli aggression

In a recent congressional hearing , the top U.S. diplomat in Haiti warned the country was “experiencing systemic collapse” as killings, kidnappings, hunger, poverty, mass displacement, and chaos surge, and as violence cuts off humanitarian aid to the 6...

Health, Human Rights, Women

In the Trump administration’s first public remarks to reporters on the strikes the US and Israel launched in Iran over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blamed the Middle Eastern country for the attacks that have killed at least 555...

Iran War, Block 2, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

by Jagadish Nayak RISC-V adoption continues to accelerate across commercial and government microelectronics programs. Whether open-source or commercially licensed, most RISC-V processor cores are integrated as third-party IP (3PIP), potentially introducing supply chain security challenges that demand structured,… com/ip/arteris/367067-securing-risc-v-third-party-ip-enabling-comprehensive-cwe-based-assurance-across-the-design-supply-chain/">Securing RISC-V...

Arteris, Cycuity, IP

Pioneering Iraqi feminist and activist Yanar Mohammed was shot and killed outside her residence in the capital Baghdad on Monday. Mohammed was reportedly killed after two unidentified gunmen opened fire on her at around 09:00 am local time...

MENA

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates has warned that people can face prosecution if they share or repost rumours from unverified sources related to Iranian attacks on the country. Arab Gulf states have come under Iranian strikes since Saturday...

MENA

In the Lebanese border village of Ainata, Batoul Ismail was awoken by her mother shortly after midnight with the news: rockets had been fired from the south of Lebanon toward Israeli military installations in Haifa. For Ismail and many others...

Hezbollah, Iran, Israel

“Democracia” y fascismo se alían en la guerra imperialista: la unidad de EEUU y Europa contra Irán desmonta el mito de la lucha entre regímenes. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Existe un mito...

Español, Democracy, European Union

In January 1991, at the height of the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein gave the order to fire salvos of scud missiles against Israeli population centres. Operationally, this made no sense. Israel had not joined the US-led campaign to...

Analysis

Iran could easily end up mired in civil war like Syria, Afghanistan or Libya, a prospect the US and Israel have ignored, a former UK ambassador to Iran has warned. Sir Richard Dalton, Britain’s top official in Tehran from 2003...

Americas, Archive, Middle East

- - - - Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash Long-time readers will likely recall a few times when I expressed my overall foreign policy strategy, when it comes to military use, as being slow to anger,...

During joint operations with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel targeted and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who at 86 had been Iran’s longest serving head of state, leading the Islamic Republic since 1989. It was the first open, direct assassination of...

Column, Middle East, Military

Citizen Lab research fellow Wolfie Christl spoke with Der Standard about the Austrian Interior Ministry’s €900K investment in Tangles, a surveillance software that gathers and analyzes data from across social media and the web. Christl and...

Bahraini authorities have launched a campaign of arrests targeting people who allegedly expressed joy and celebration over Iranian missiles and drones that struck sites in the kingdom, including facilities linked to the US Fifth Fleet . The arrests followed the...

MENA

Gulf states have been hit by waves of Iranian missiles and drones for three days as Tehran lashes out at its neighbours following Saturday's unprovoked assault on Iran by the US and Israel . Despite hotels, ports,...

MENA

Israeli settlers killed two brothers in an attack on the occupied West Bank village of Qaryut on Monday that also left three people injured, the Ramallah-based health ministry and Palestinian Red Crescent said. "Two citizens from Qaryut, south of Nablus,...

MENA

France is "ready" to defend Gulf countries and Jordan against Iran if necessary, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Monday. Iran has launched a series of missile and drone strikes on several Gulf countries, saying it is targeting US...

World

Following Israel and the US’s ongoing deadly assaults on Iran , which began on Saturday, and Tehran's subsequent strikes on US interests and civilian infrastructure across the Arabian Peninsula , several European countries have weighed in on the latest...

MENA

British foreign minister Yvette Cooper said on Monday that her team was looking at all options, including evacuation, to help hundreds of thousands of UK citizens leave Gulf countries, which are now being targeted by Iran. There are an...

World

On Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani directed security forces to address "any act that would undermine security and stability" in response to evolving regional developments and an increase in attacks by Iran-backed factions . As commander-in-chief,...

MENA

Russian political leaders have condemned the large-scale military operation carried out by the United States and Israel against Iran, describing it as an act of aggression and a dangerous escalation with far-reaching global consequences. Moscow also expressed condolences following the...

World

Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait strongly condemned Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting multiple countries in the region. The strikes, which hit Bahrain, Iraq (including northern Iraqi Kurdistan) , Jordan, Kuwait,...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli forces expelled worshippers Sunday evening from a mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City and prevented them from performing the Isha and Tarawih prayers, as the government extended a nationwide state of emergency for an additional 12 days. According to...

News, Occupied Jerusalem, state of emergency
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