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Speaking at a meeting of the Foreign Correspondents' Association of Sri Lanka at Colombo on May 26,2005, Hagrup Haukland, the chief of the Norwegian-led military mission, which monitors the three-year-old ceasefire between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), confirmed the allegation of the Sri Lankan Government that the LTTE had constructed an airstrip near Iranamadu in the Wanni area under its control in

The Qatar crisis unfolded soon after the Riyadh summit of Muslim countries, attended by President Trump. Iran was the whipping boy at the Riyadh summit.

So far, Iran’s response to U.S. provocation has been rhetorical but President Rouhani has little room for manoeuvre

Two months back an observer had noted that "without India wanting to make it so, an impression is gaining ground that our American commitments seem to insist on intruding on India-Iran relations."

The move paves way for a Turkish ‘invasion’ of northern Syria, which has a smorgasbord of rebels, Islamists, foreign powers, Iran backed rebels, U

The US president is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to further the ‘America First’ agenda vis-à-vis China, Mexico and Iran

The US today is on the horns of a dilemma in the Middle East.

The drastic and sudden drop in Venezuelan and Iranian oil exports to India in 2019-2020, due to the looming threat of US secondary sanctions, is the latest supply chain disruption to India’s energy security. To avoid similar disruptions in the future, India must act decisively to increase its Strategic Petroleum Reserves to meet at least 90 days of emergency oil stocks, and combine lobbying efforts between India’s private and public oil compa

Sanctions, a mechanism to penalise international legal violations, usually prohibit nationals of the “sanctioning country” from engaging in specified activities with the “targeted country.” Secondary or extraterritorial sanctions, on the other hand, penalise third-country individuals and companies for dealing with sanctioned countries. Recent measures adopted by the US—the enactment of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanc

Washington is seeking to share onus with New Delhi on continuing the cultivation of strategic ties.

With Israel’s intended strategy in the aftermath of the 7/10 attacks, the conflict is all set to go well into 2024

Most analysts agree that a dangerous mix of demand, supply and currency is responsible for Punjab’s drug menace. Punjab is both a transit point and a market for the drugs smuggled from the so-called Golden Crescent that is Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. While the heroin produced in Afghanistan is smuggled through the 553-km-long, porous India-Pakistan border, the opium, poppy husk, charas and hashish, among other drugs, come from the neighbour

By exiting the Iran nuclear deal and guiding the Abraham Accords to fruition, did Trump’s disruptions succeed in American foreign policy’s most ho

To punish China, isolate Iran and forgive Russia. This is the new US foreign policy doctrine.

The issues in Afghanistan do not exhaust potential areas for India-US cooperation. For example, combating the drug trade, engaging China, Central Asian nations, Iran, and Russia. Successful coordination and collaboration will go a long way towards creating a post-2014 Afghan scenario amenable to both India and the US.

The Helsinki summit presents an opportunity for the US and Russia to resume a dialogue even if to disagree on matters.

Though India has decided to cut down oil from Iran and thereby, for the time being, might have placated the US, it, however, cannot afford to ignore Iran either - for a myriad of reasons.

The last multilateral negotiations in the field of nuclear disarmament took place more than 20 years ago, resulting in the long awaited Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty, however, has yet to enter into force. India is often held responsible for such uncertainty, in spite of having withdrawn from the negotiations before it was even concluded; at other times, it is the US which is blamed for failing to ratify the CTBT—giving reason

Narendra Modi’s West Asia policy remains the one area of achievement in an otherwise indifferent record of foreign policy.

The deepening crisis in the Korean Peninsula and the stalled nuclear talks with Iran together are a powerful reminder to the US that its non-proliferation policies are not working in Asia. Both Bush's muscular approaches and Obama's coercive diplomacy have failed.

Ever since the US declared Iran a member of the ¿Axis of Evil¿, and more so after the Iraq invasion, the question very often asked in many of the essays that appeared in the West was ¿Is Iran next?¿ And now, after a bruising experience in Iraq, the US administration cannot just retreat to the relative safety of the White House and glower at the rest of the world.

Though Dr. Hassan Rouhani is labelled as a 'pragmatist', 'moderate', or even a 'reformist' by analysts, all these terms have very restrictive meanings in the Iranian context.

The challenge for Iran's President-elect Dr. Hassan Rouhani lies in not only appeasing the highest echelons of country's clergy, but also securing results for an economy that is on the brink of collapse.

Regional security in West Asia stands at a precarious intersection.

अंतरिक्ष जिस तरह युद्ध का अगला मैदान बन रहा है, उसे देखते �

भारत आणि इराण अफगाणिस्तानमध्ये स्वतःसाठी जागा तयार करण्यासाठी समान ओळख आणि हितसंबंध वापरून त्यांचे जागतिक दृष्टिकोन सुधारू शकतात.

अफगाणिस्तानतील घडमोडींवरून निर्माण झालेल्या सुरक्षाविषयक धोक्यांचा सामना करण्यासाठी इराण आणि भारत एकत्र येऊ शकतात का? हा खरा प्रश्न आहे.

पश्चिम एशिया के भू-राजनीतिक परिदृश्य से लेकर अफ़ग़ानिस्�

ईरान से परमाणु समझौते की राह में आने वाली बाधाएं पश्चिम ए�

मजलिस पर सुधारवादियों के बदले रुढ़िवादियों और कट्टरपंथ�

अमेरिका आणि मध्यपूर्व या दोघांसोबतही मैत्री राखण्याची कसरत करणारा जपान सध्या एका वेगळ्या वळणावर उभा आहे.

भारतासाठी आखाती देश हे तेलासाठी आवश्यक असणारे देश होते, पण गेल्या वर्षीच अमेरिकेने लादलेल्या निर्बंधामुळे चित्र बदलते आहे.

अमेरिका-इराण संघर्षात भारतासह अनेक आशियाई अर्थव्यवस्थांचे मोठे नुकसान आहे. कारण हे देश मध्यपूर्वेतील तेलाचे सर्वात मोठे ग्राहक आहेत.

अमेरिका और ईरान के मध्य परमाणु समझौता वार्ता को तेज़ करन�

पाकिस्तान भारतासोबतचे संबंध सुधारण्यासाठी प्रयत्न करण्यास खरंच तयार असेल तर त्याने अफगाणिस्तान समस्येबाबत भारताचे मत देखील विचारात घेतले पाहिजे.

पश्चिम आशिया सतत अस्थिर राहणे हे अमेरिकेच्या हिताचे आहे. वेगाने वाढत जाणाऱ्या चीनवर कुरघोडी करण्यासाठी अमेरिकेला ते हवे आहे.

चीन की बड़ी तेल कंपनियां ईरान से प्रतिदिन तकरीबन 3,60,000 बैरल

अब्राहम समझौतों के बाद से इज़राइल और संयुक्त अरब अमीरात �

अगर पश्चिम एशिया के लिहाज़ से देखें तो येरूशलम और तेह़रा�

आईेसआईएस के खात्मे के धमाके को नहीं, इसकी सिसकियों को सुन�

इराणचे अॅटर्नी जनरल मोहम्मद जाफर मोंटाझेरी यांनी एका परिषदेत सांगितले की, नैतिकता पोलिसांचा न्यायव्यवस्थेशी काहीही संबंध नाही आणि अशा प्रकारे जिथेजिथे अशा यंत्रणा आहे

इराण अणुभंग झालेला असताना पश्चिम आशिया आणि अमेरिकेतील बायडेन यांच्या बाजूने खरोखर आहे का?