NATO, U.S. planes trafficking Afghan narcotics, Iran says

TEHRAN – Brigadier General Eskandar Momeni, Secretary-General of the Islamic Republic of Iran Drug Control Headquarters, has said that according to credible information, NATO and U.S. aircraft are trafficking narcotics from Afghanistan.

By Stephen Lendman

The United Nations: An imperial tool

Headquartered in New York with offices in Geneva, Vienna, The Hague, and Nairobi, the UN is supposed to be an intergovernmental organization that champions peace, opposes war, and represents the rights, interests, and welfare of all nations and people everywhere equitably.

By Salman Parviz

Prospects of normalization grim in Libya

Common understanding among foreign actors needed

TEHRAN_ Analysts say that Libya is one of the most important crisis to watch for in 2020 because of the involvement of Russia and Turkey. More importantly, the plight of the Libyans after almost 10 years of civil war cannot be ignored.

By fatemeh Salehi

The Idlib battle shows Turkey’s real face

Current developments in Idlib province in northwestern Syria are obviously a series of violations of international law and the United Nations Security Council resolutions by the Turkish troops and officials as the world is witnessing a double-standard policy by Ankara toward the crisis in that part of the war-hit Syria.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Continuous presence under the banner of NATO: A new American trick for survival

TEHRAN - Since the passage of the resolution on the expulsion of foreign troops by the Iraqi parliament, the U.S. has strongly reacted in political, social and security aspects and is trying to avoid any form of enforcement.

By Ramin Hosseinabadian

Does NATO respond positively to the Turkish supererogation?

Turkey is once again turning to the West, while over the past two years, it had been distancing from the West and trying to collaborate with Russia due the success of the Astana peace process on the Syrian conflict.

Trump backs away from further military conflict with Iran

President Trump backed away from further military confrontation with Iran on Wednesday after a barrage of missiles fired at American troops in Iraq, the New York Times reported.

By Damir Nazarov

Syrians will resist.

WEST SIBERIA/ TYUMEN - The American occupation in Syria raises the question: What do the Yankees expect from Syria? In the words of local imperialist puppets represented by the Military council Deir Zor and part-time field commanders of the SDF: "Americans are called upon to provide assistance to the Kurdish insurgents in the fight against Assad and the Iranians". In fact, on the one hand - the American occupiers are a symbol of cooperation between Zionism and the Saudis, and on the other hand-with the Pro-American Kurds. This tandem is used by the SDF for anti-Iranian policy.

Armed democracy: NATO greatest achievement for Europe

At the 30th NATO summit, following the U.S. and Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, NATO leaders, reiterating future threats, divided the world into East and West military poles.

By Maryam Khormaei

Why Germany turned its back on parallel coalitions in Strait of Hormuz

Germany recently announced it will not join the French-led mission in the Strait of Hormuz. This is while, not long ago, Berlin’s lack of support for Paris’s position on “the brain death of NATO” became a hot issue.

By Hanif Ghafari

NATO at zero point!

The NATO summit in London shows clearly that the North Atlantic Treaty is in a serious crisis for its survival. In recent days, Western analysts have analyzed and evaluated various aspects of the tensions and challenges among NATO members. The majority of NATO members are European countries.

U.S. unleashes rage as new NATO members join INSTEX

TEHRAN – Washington feels angry as some new European nations member to NATO have decided to trade with Iran via the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX).

By Hamid Bayati

Will NATO follow the same way as the Warsaw Pact?

French President Emmanuel Macron criticized NATO on November 7, calling the current situation of the organization a “brain death”. Macron’s remarks once again led to heated debates regarding a possible collapse of NATO.

By Saeed Sobhani

Endless crises in NATO

TEHRAN-NATO is spending turbulent days. The positions of the French President, the American President and the German Chancellor on how to deal with the crises in NATO are inconsistent. NATO, on the other hand, is facing difficult crises that cannot be overcome.

Interference is reason behind regional insecurity, Iran tells NATO chief

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Wednesday that foreign interference is reason behind insecurity and tension in the region.

By Morteza Khansari

Has Trump fulfilled his campaign promises?

TEHRAN - Donald Trump’s foreign policies and security strategies have been recently called into question, even by the White House staff and the Congress. Since Trump took the office, averagely, at least one person from the administrative office of the White House got fired every month, and some of them were even put on trial. The last person who got fired was Sarah Sanders, the former White House press secretary. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.” 

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’.”

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.