Russia returned a $167 million advance payment to Iran for S-300 air defense systems it didn’t deliver to this country and the story evoked serious response in the world. Was penalty paid – that’s what…
Category: Mid-East
“Israel could strike Iran this spring”, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stated in an interview The US [says it] is against the strike and believes that the current sanctions are more than sufficient.However, these statements…
On February 4 the UN Security Council (UNSC) held a new session devoted to Syria. This time the targets of the strike were Russia and China. It was done in an open and demonstrative way….
Interview with Gennady Yevstafyev, retired Lieutenant-General of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence ==== We know that in the Gulf there are two flattops surrounded by several dozens of American ships. And yesterday or the day before yesterday…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-united-nations-russia-377/id075117311e52520040e13684bb99837_churkina_0600.flv] UN Security Council members have agreed to the text of a resolution on Syria. Reports say the new draft does not include provisions which Russia vocally opposed, namely an arms embargo and the resignation…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-un-security-council-211/ia41b01ea32eac8bdd8abc1e9d885675a_syria_portnaya_live_0200.flv] A major diplomatic battle over the fate of Syria has begun at the United Nations, with Russia and China the only permanent Security Council members challenging the UN’s right to ‘meddle’ in sovereign states’…
UN Security Council members have agreed upon the text of a draft resolution on Syria and will send the document to governments for approval, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said. “We have the text which…
Watching top U.S. intelligence officials present the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” before the Senate Intelligence Committee, I found myself wondering if they would depart from the key (if politically delicate) consensus judgment that Iran is…
“Viscous nasty business” … “aggressive pressure … by US diplomats”, “ferocious pressure on weaker non-permanent members”, the “type of pressure [that] is very, very difficult for weaker countries … to resist.” That’s how a former…
Alarmist corporate media coverage of the “threat” from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify…