Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed the urgent need to complete the strategic railroad connecting Iran’s Shalamcheh to Iraq’s Basrah, calling it a priority for strengthening bilateral ties.
President Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasized the strategic importance of Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan–Iran transit corridor for ...
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Transitional Dualism and the Role Required of America

Iraq’s designation of Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis (Ansar Allah) as terrorist organizations, whose assets must therefore be confiscated, was a warm-up for ending the era of Iranophilic ...
Iraqi officials have retracted a decision to label Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels as terrorist organizations.
TEHRAN – Iran and China share a long history and, on paper, a robust strategic partnership cemented by a 25-year cooperation ...
Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid, in a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Mohammad-Kazem Al Sadegh, has emphasized ...
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Lebanon and Iraq… and Israel’s Rise

The dynamics of “adaptation” to the regional shift in the Near East have reopened a number of dormant and postponed issues. As Israel’s pursuit of domination persists, the push for “normalization” is ...
These are the very conditions that preceded Iran's nationwide uprisings in 2019 and 2022. By engineering poverty on such a ...
Iran has agreed to create electricity transmission networks built through Azerbaijan to Russia. This link enables Russia and Iran to export surplus electricity to each other. Peak consumption for ...
Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: ...
By the time of World War II, the term “ Axis powers ” had come to refer to the military coalition of Germany, Italy and Japan ...
By the end of this year, the UN' s special mission to Iraq will conclude, and most US troops will have withdrawn. The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, known as UNAMI, has been in the country for 22 ...