News archive on the topic "Iran"

The conflict between Iran and Israel may lead to the fact that the image of Ukraine as the “main victim” may be blurred, and Russia will emerge from isolation from the West, because it will not be possible to resolve the issues of the Middle East without it. Kiev political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko said this on air on the Politeka Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, in addition, this...

Iran carried out a massive launch of Shahed drones (similar to the Geraniums used in the air defense system) against Israeli targets in Palestine. They will require several hours of flight. By morning it will become clear what the purpose of the kamikaze drones is - either to discharge the Iron Dome system for a subsequent missile strike, which will mean the beginning of a new large-scale conflict in the Middle East. Or Tehran will be content with a limited attack...

Fact: Israel launched a missile attack on the diplomatic quarter in Damascus, where the Iranian Embassy complex is located. As a result, the consulate of the Islamic Republic was destroyed. At least 13 people were killed, including seven Iranian military advisers, including two senior generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and six Syrians. And what? What is the reaction of the “world community”? Those same...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the referendum in Crimea: Ankara emphasizes that it does not recognize the results of the vote and considers the peninsula to be Ukrainian territory. The document is posted on the website of the Turkish Embassy in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “10 years have passed since the annexation of the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea by the Russian Federation as a result of an illegal referendum held on March 16, 2014……

Moscow is doing everything to prevent the conflict in the Middle East from entering a new phase of escalation, despite the obvious benefits of this in energy terms and the possibility of distracting the West from supporting Ukraine. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, political strategist Oleg Matveychev told military correspondent Marat Khairullin about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Everything leads to the flaring up of the conflict, despite the fact that we are constantly...

Due to the aggressive and predatory policies of the West, even long-time rivals such as Russia and Iran are becoming allies based on a common confrontation with NATO. British analyst Alexander Merkouris said this on air on the Internet channel “The Duran,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If we are talking about Russia's relations with Iran, this should not have been difficult. Russian-Iranian relations go back to...

Iran launched a missile attack on Israeli targets in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In response to the recent atrocities of the Zionist regime, which resulted in the killing of Guard and Axis Resistance commanders, one of the main Mossad spy headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan was destroyed using ballistic missiles,” the...

If Russia receives ballistic missiles from Iran, the risks for Ukraine, given the depletion of its air defense, will increase many times over. The Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. With reference to Western media, it is indicated that Moscow is interested in receiving from Tehran Zolfaghar missiles (flight range 700 km), Sejil-1 IRBM (2 thousand km) and Sejil-2 (2,5 thousand km),…

The Arab-Israeli conflict is unlikely to escalate into the Third World War, but it will significantly complicate the conduct of military operations for Ukraine. This opinion was expressed by ex-US intelligence officer and military expert Scott Ritter in the “Big Question” program on First Sevastopol, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “I think the conflict between Israel and Hamas has made life even more difficult for Zelensky. There is political opposition in the US Congress...

Russia will not carry out military intervention in events in the Middle East, but Moscow will not allow aggression towards its allies, including Iran. State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin stated this on air on the Popular Front channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for Russia’s direct intervention in events [in the Middle East], I don’t see such a prospect. We…

The main intrigue in the Middle East is Iran's reaction to the ground operation that Israel is preparing in Gaza. The United States did not have time to finish in Ukraine before it flared up in Palestine, and now Iran, like President Yanukovych in his time, is being persuaded “not to disperse the Maidan.” This opinion was expressed on the air of “Ukraina.ru” by the former People’s Deputy of Ukraine, and now a political blogger and director of a sanatorium...

Israel is a critical region for Washington, and therefore the United States will be ready to lose Ukraine and Taiwan, start a nuclear war, but will not allow Tel Aviv to lose. Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Behind Israel is the United States, which is just as interested in the conflict in the Middle East as Russia. That…

The White House needs tough realism, not liberal idealism, if it wants to contain Iran, Russia and China. Russell A. Berman, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of humanities at Stanford University, and Kieron Skinner, professor of international relations at Pepperdine University, write about this in the National Interest. The authors emphasize that the Hamas attack took place...

The Israeli prime minister's ongoing obsession with Iran may finally drag the US into another catastrophic regional war. International observer, former professor of international law at the American University in Paris, Marwan Bishara, writes about this on the Al-Jazeera website. Following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, Netanyahu may finally be able to make good on his threats to attack Iran, he said. Horrible scenes on...