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By Mahmoud ElKhafif No “Deal of the Century” is possible without a full and comprehensive assessment of the economic and financial toll of Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. Long decades of arbitrary Israeli policies have inflicted enormous economic costs on the Palestinian people. Since the first moments of the …

By Ramin Mazaheri  Last month I was in Tehran for the end of Ramazan, and the night before Eid e-Fitr my family and I went to a public street food festival downtown. It might surprise many non-Iranians, but the array of live music included electric guitars and rock and roll. …

By:Hossein Askari Let’s start by stating the obvious. The world does not need more nuclear powers beyond the far too many it already has — China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. The Middle East does not need other countries — Iran, …

By Jonathan Freedland Maybe we’re too busy laughing to see it. Perhaps it’s the jokes and memes that Donald Trump generates in abundance, the gift that keeps on giving, that blinds us to a chilling fact that we’d rather not face. Put simply, the leader of the world’s most powerful …

Translated from Noornews Although during the past year some security sources have reported the intensification of the “Al Saud” and “Al-Nahyan” disputes over the Yemeni war and their methods of dividing responsibilities in this cruel aggression, but few ones thought that the scope of this dispute would included the privacy …

by Ibrahim Fraihat Proposing an economic approach to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is nothing new and it was definitely not pioneered by President Donald Trump and his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. It was put forward many times in the past by both the Israeli side, most prominently represented by …

By KAMBAIZ RAFI Most people who saw the photo of Alan Kurdi, the drowned Kurdish-Syrian toddler lying face down on a Mediterranean beach, might also remember the ensuing public outrage. Politicians and average citizens around the globe joined in a show of sympathy for the plight of Syrian migrants, an …

By DNYANESH KAMAT In a series of policy decisions and developments this month, Narendra Modi, newly elected to a second term as prime minister, is deepening India’s relations with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, to the detriment of its ties with Iran. India also is increasing its …

By: Hanif Ghaffari In a recent report, Foreign Policy news agency has pointed out that Mark Esper has a close relationship with hardliners of White House. The report goes on to say that Mark Esper has close relations with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John …

By: Hamidreza Gholamzadeh The new sanctions came just after Donald Trump wrote on his Twitter account that he is welcoming negotiations with Iran; Brian Hook also told media that Trump is enthusiastic to have talks with Iran ‘without any conditions’ to reach a new deal – and certainly he didn’t …