Middle East Monitor | – – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, as US President Donald Trump has threatened to do. “Our atomic energy organisation is fully prepared … for actions that they […]
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Middle East
Could Trump’s Sabre-Rattling against Iran Spoil the North Korea Negotiations?
North Korea suspends nuclear testing ahead of talks with Trump North Korea has surprised the international community by announcing it is suspending its testing of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles ahead of talks between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The isolated communist regime said that the moratorium on […]
Macron on way to see Trump: “There is no ‘Plan B’ re: Iran Nuclear Deal”
PHOTO AFP / PATRICK HERTZOG. Washington (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron, who is heading to Washington to urge his US counterpart to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that there is no “Plan B” if the accord is scrapped. French President Emmanuel Macron says he supports efforts to […]
Calls for stripping Natalie Portman of Israel Citizenship for criticizing Shooting Palestinian Protesters
“Annihilation” star Natalie Portman replied to the controversy stirred by her declining to attend the Genesis Foundation awards ceremony in Jerusalem in June because of her distress at “recent events” (the shooting down of unarmed protesters in Gaza by Israeli snipers at the order of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu). She wrote at Instagram: “Let me […]
Will an Emerging Russia-Turkey-Iran Alliance Reshape the Middle East?
By Conn Hallinan | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The unusual triple alliance coming out of Syria could change the regional balance of power and unhinge NATO — if it holds together at all. The unusual triple alliance coming out of Syria could change the regional balance of power and unhinge NATO — […]
‘Fake news’: the mainstreaming of Syria conspiracy theories
By Hanaa Hasan | (Middle East Monitor) | – – The sight of yet another chemical attack on civilians in Douma on Saturday 7 April caused the kind of international outrage that the world now expects and has come to know so well. Scenes of children frothing at the mouth and videos of people shaking […]
How does a city get to be ‘smart’? This is how Tel Aviv did it
By Christine Steinmetz | (The Conversation) | – – Smart cities, digital cities, virtual cities, connected cities. Are these just trendy buzzwords? Perhaps. But these types of cities are supported by infrastructure that is more than bricks and mortar. These cities are smart (thoughtful, people-centric), digital (driven by data acquisition, measured, analysed and sometimes exchanged) […]
Danger: ISIL is defeated, but Raqqa’s people are Devastated and waiting for Accountability
Akshaya Kumar, Deputy United Nations Director | (Human Rights Watch) | – – UN Security Council Meeting Should Address Plight of Raqqa’s Residents The United Nations Security Council meets again today on Syria – for the sixth time in just over a week. While it’s tempting to ask what the deadlocked council will achieve with […]
Israeli Marksmen continue to use Peaceful Palestinian Protesters in Gaza for Target Practice: 2 dead, 40 Wounded
Ma’an News Agency | – – Gaza City (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a 24-year-old Palestinian protester in Gaza on Friday afternoon, the second Palestinian to be killed during Friday’s protests. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain Palestinian as Ahmad Rashad al-Athamneh, 24. He was killed during protests along the border […]








