Section: Iran
Emperor Palpatine takes City Council seat in Ukraine’s Odessa — RT News
This is neither a joke nor a Star Wars sequel: The series’ villain, Emperor Palpatine, is set to continue his political career in Ukraine. Following Sunday’s nationwide elections, Darth Sidious secured a seat on Odessa City Council. This is according to Odessa mayoral candidate Aleksandr Borovik, who shared the news, as well as his...
Is War About to Break Out in the Balkans?
Lost in the cacophony of international news about Russian airstrikes against U.S.-backed anti-Assad rebels in Syria and refugees flooding through the Balkans on their way to Western Europe, a crisis is brewing in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the European Union’s southeast flank. And here, too, Moscow has a hand in the mischief-making. Nov. 21...
No clear winner in Ukrainian poll as preliminary results are out
In Ukraine, the preliminary results from local elections have been published. …read more Source:...
Commodity Traders Helped Spark the War in Syria, Complex Systems Theorists Say
Complex systems theorists say that a combination of deregulated markets, commodity speculation, and food-to-fuel ethanol policies are the direct cause of the spike in food prices that led to the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria. A new paper, published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that the “two sharp peaks...
Ukraine says soldier killed near Donetsk
Ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed by mortar fire near Donetsk. …read more Source:...
Riyadh, Ankara in Collaboration to Supply Terrorists in Syria with Ukraine’s SAM Missiles
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey and Saudi Arabia have developed a plan to supply sophisticated air defense missile systems to the terrorist groups in Syria from the Ukrainian army. …read more Source: Fars News...
Airline Safety Alerting System Created After MH17 Tragedy Seen as Lagging
By ROBERT WALL: Officials say government concerns about information are still trumping security considerations The reconstructed wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash on Oct. 13. MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board...
Analysis: Russia-Iran alliance tactical, not strategic – Middle East
Christian Russia and Shi’ite Iran’s military alliance to help keep Syrian President Bashar Assad in power is fraught with underlying tension, which could be exploited by Israel or the US. Iran’s revolutionary expansionist agenda and its targeting of Israel is at odds with Russia’s long-term goals in the region. Russia...
Russian navy holds drills to ‘repel strikes’ on Crimea
Russian military forces have staged a navy exercise off the coast of the city of Sevastopol in the Black Sea Crimean peninsula to “thwart any possible aggression by the West.” “Today and tomorrow ships… will practice the organization of repelling strikes by the enemy from the air in the Black Sea fleet’s naval range...
Russian navy holds drills to ‘repel strikes’ on Crimea
Russia’s navy has launched a two-day military maneuver off the Crimean coast. …read more Source:...
