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2019-07-10 22:10
By Morteza Khansari
A new world order with changes in power balance: Dividing the world into opponents and friends
TEHRAN - By withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the United States and Russia finally pulled away the iron curtain of the cold war. Seemingly, the two countries want to change the common defensive methods and are now unveiling their high-tech nuclear weapons and missiles and have started threatening each other with nuclear weapons.
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2019-04-10 19:07
Turkey, Qatar, Iraq, China criticize U.S. designation of IRGC as terror group
Turkey, a NATO ally of the United States, and Qatar, also a U.S. ally, as well as Iraq and China on Tuesday objected to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group.
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2019-02-23 11:43
By Giovanni Sorbello
U.S. withdrawal from the INF treaty was a big mistake: Pillar
SICILY - The withdrawal of the United States from the INF contract has become a major concern for global peace and security lovers, and many analysts have assessed this incident as a way to war.
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2019-02-19 09:24
Russian think tank chief: Warsaw meeting showed U.S. failure
TEHRAN - Chairman of the Iran Section in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences has said that the Warsaw conference showed failure of the U.S. policies in the Middle East.
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2019-02-12 16:54
U.S. Pledges to Fight Russia, China for Influence in NATO's East
The U.S will fight to regain influence in NATO’s eastern flank, particularly in countries such as Hungary where the government’s spotty record on democracy led to a freeze in relations that allowed Russia and China to extend their sway, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said.
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2019-02-02 10:58
U.S. announces withdrawal from missile treaty with Russia
The U.S. announced Friday it will suspend its participation in a Cold War-era ballistic missile treaty over alleged Russian violations of the pact.
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2019-01-16 13:19
By Bashir Esmaeili
Imposed sanctions, a rollercoaster ride for resilient Iranians for four decades
It’s been frenetic days with much ups and downs for the people of Iran; just like a rollercoaster ride whose peaks and valleys are determined by international events, a ride that thrills them one moment and devastates them the next.
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2018-12-30 09:39
By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com
Independent European army: A dream which will never come true
TEHRAN - It has been a rather long time that politicians like the French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, didn't speak of the formation of an "Independent European Army." This is doubling the assumptions on the cross-sectional and reactionary nature of this idea by European authorities.
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2018-12-05 10:44
Pompeo Questions the Value of International Groups Like UN and EU
BRUSSELS — In a major speech on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to explain one of the abiding conundrums of the Trump administration: How does a nationalist lead on the international stage?
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2018-11-26 11:29
By Javad Heirannia
EU army won’t threaten NATO future: ex-CIA official
TEHRAN – Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that “today the idea of a European military force clearly is getting a boost from the many frictions between Europe and the Trump administration in the United States.”
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2018-11-22 10:47
Taliban not losing, admits U.S. general
TEHRAN _ In a candid admission of U.S. defeat in Afghanistan after 18 years of war that began in 2001, U.S. General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the Taliban "are not losing" in the war-torn country.
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2018-11-21 10:50
By Javad Heirannia
Transatlantic differences justify European efforts to become more autonomous: Finaud
TEHRAN - Marc Finaud, the former French Foreign Ministry spokesman, says that “the reasons why France and Germany saw an interest in developing further EU strategic autonomy were related to the apparent reduced American interest in transatlantic solidarity, and the prospect of the United Kingdom leaving the EU, because the UK was one of the two leading military powers in Europe but always opposed any progress towards a ‘European army’.”
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2018-11-20 09:58
By Mahmood Monshipouri
A real European army: A naive or prudent idea?
A new strategic debate has engulfed not only the European continent but also other great powers across the globe. The idea of an EU collective defense, now dubbed as “an integrated EU military” is not new—as it has in the past been briefly mentioned by Silvio Berlusconi when he was the Italian prime minister, but more recently, by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
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2018-11-20 09:54
By Javad Heirannia
Trump seems to have no concept of a multipolar world: Jahanpour
TEHRAN - Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on Middle Eastern affairs in the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and a member of Kellogg College says that The main reason for the idea of forming a joint European army “has been President Trump’s unilateral and ultra-nationalist approach that puts America first and, by implication, ignores the interests of other countries and tries to impose his views on them.”
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2018-11-17 23:07
Sharp rise in casualty toll of Afghan security forces since 2015
TEHRAN - As the security situation in war-ravaged Afghanistan deteriorates, the Afghan government has revealed the numbers that are both deeply alarming and highly distressing.
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2018-11-13 09:56
‘U.S. failed in Afghanistan’: Russia
TEHRAN _ A few days after Moscow hosted landmark ‘peace talks’ on Afghanistan, a senior Russian diplomat said Moscow has offered to broker Afghan peace talks because the U.S. has failed in bringing peace to the war-ravaged country.