Destruction, social devastation and the loss of life. Our thoughts are with the people of Turkey and Syria. Introduction The latest reports point to a death toll in Turkey and Syria well in excess of 50,000,…
Category: The Central Asia, Middle East, and North Africa Region
Večernje Novosti (VN): You are the first politician in Europe who, as early as February 8, in the Romanian Parliament stated the strange events surrounding the earthquake in Turkey. Please repeat those observations for the…
Iran would not passively suffer the blows but would seek the opportunity to immediately transfer the conflict to the aggressor’s territory and this is something Iranian generals can surely achieve. Nasser Kan’ani, Iranian Foreign Ministry…
There is no doubt that were Israel threatened with the forced implementation of even something as fundamentally just and decent as a two-state solution they would resort to using nuclear bombs. They are dead-set on…
Russian-brokered Syrian-Turkish rapprochement will bury prospects of a divided Syria, with the potential for opposition factions to be co-opted into the armed forces. The newly-initiated Syrian-Turkish rapprochement talks are headed in Damascus’ favor and the…
The Cradle’s writers offer up their predictions for 2023. The common theme is massive global shifts, some good, some bad. Predictions are a notoriously painful exercise. In the world of geopolitics, especially during a time…
The Cradle speaks with a senior Hezbollah military official in Iraq on the crucial role played by Iran’s late Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani in leading the resistance against ISIS. Qassem Soleimani, the…
: Israel’s new government is planning to give de facto operational control of the national police and heavily armed border police to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of a party of right wing, racist extremists. It…
We were defining success. Having lavishly financed and miserably failed all options that were on, under, above, besides, and in secret compartments of the metaphorical-turned-legendary table against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the unholy trinity,…
“… ANOTHER FAMILIAR SCENE ‘MADE IN USISRAEL’?” … In Iran, riots and mass protests continue for a third week. The Western globalist media wrote that this was caused by the death of Mahsa Amini, who…