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When it comes to the end of the JCPOA negotiations, the ball is in the West's court...

Russia is looking to counter tightening Western economic sanctions with new shipping route through Iran

Russia expresses surprise over the “illogical” positions adopted by the three European powers during the ongoing Vienna negotiations on the removal of US sanctions on Iran, saying Moscow does not understand the trio’s “destructive” stances and cannot thus support them.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry warned on October 4 that its “strategic patience” with what it described as anti-Iranian terrorist groups operating in the Iraqi Kurdistan region had come to an end (Pars Today, October 5). The remarks followed threats by both Iran’s top military commander, Mohammad Bagheri, and minister of intelligence, Esmaeil Khatib, of intensified Iranian military activity in Iraqi …

Brief Analysis China, Russia, and Iran are currently exploiting COVID-19 to conduct information warfare, specifically targeting the Middle East. In January 2020, Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news agency published an article alleging that the then-emerging COVID-19 virus was “probably made in NATO labs.” Since then, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)’s Information Operations Division—the U.S. Department of Defense’s flagship organization for countering propaganda and disinformation—has noticed an onslaught of pandemic-related propaganda and disinformation from Russian, Iranian, and...