Link– Digital Journal Interesting? Amir-Abdollahian in Ankara right after a visit to Damascus. Cavusoglu said he intended to hold his first official meeting with Mekdad “in the upcoming period”. “Today, we emphasised that Iran’s contribution to this process is very important,” Cavusoglu said. US Concerns Washington’s relations with Ankara are already strained by US support […]
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TASS Ankara may close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to warships, but Russia will still have the right to use them for the return of its fleet to its base, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday. “Ukraine has sent us an official request [to close the straits to Russian warships]. The provisions of […]
https://thecradle.co/Article/Investigations/19494 US and Israeli-backed armed Kurdish separatists on the Iraqi border have participated in every incident of Iranian domestic strife, from 2009 to 2022. ” Since April 2003, after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, West Asia transformed into a vast playground for an array of foreign states and entities. Among them are Iranian Kurdish […]
https://web.archive.org/web/20171028184128/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2016/04/irans-forgotten-kurds-step-up-struggle.html From the past to the present ( the present featured in the second report for today) original url https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2016/04/irans-forgotten-kurds-step-up-struggle.html Still viable url! https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/iran-s-forgotten-kurds-step-up-the-struggle-1.140788 KDPI PJAK, PKK, KDPI So the present day problem in Iran with the alphabet Kurdish groups has been present for a very long time Far longer than this nearly 7 year […]
via the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20140815170104/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2014/08/maliki-stands-down-us-regime-change.html my blog from 2014 original url to June 14/14– try the wayback again. https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-delivered-ultimatum-to-maliki-via.html The Obama administration had been weighing the use of US ground forces and aircraft to mount an emergency rescue That strategy depends on the formation of a new Iraqi government Therefore it’s correctly written that the […]
IndianPunchline The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws to a close. The […]
And a possible Erdogan, Putin, Assad meeting. A brief digression.. oh that the resources of my old blog were public, sigh 🙁 This is part 2 to the report below; Turkey prepared to hand over Syrian regions under it’s control to Syrian government- as long as the Syrian secure the territory Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut […]
Far too many have chosen to ignore that which was staring them in the face. Turkish forces in the Idlib area were there with the acknowledgment and agreement based on an invitation from Russia, which Syria was surely a party too! This fact, which appeared to myself to be an obvious one was addressed on […]
An interesting perspective on Syria’s importance in the region particularly as it relates to Israel’s wanting to dominate the Arab people and their lands Link to article Former diplomat Frederic Hof explores how Damascus is Tel Aviv’s last frontier in overcoming the Arab ‘problem’ As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
Link The defense ministers of Turkey, Halusi Akar, and Syria, Ali Mahmoud Abbas, met on Wednesday in Moscow. The meeting is the first between the defense ministers of the two countries since 2011 and was part of a tripartite meeting with their Russian counterpart Serghei Shoigu. The announcement was made by the Russian defence ministry. […]