Iran's Achilles' Heel: The Economy Buckles Under the Weight of War For decades, the economy has been Iran's Achilles' heel — the one vulnerability its adversaries never tire of exploiting and its leaders nev...

Iran's Achilles' Heel: The Economy Buckles Under the Weight of War

#Iran #economy #crisis #war

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Ukraine Asks Turkey to Host Zelensky-Putin Summit as Peace Talks Stall Ukraine has asked Turkey to host a direct summit between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kyiv's top diplo...

Ukraine Asks Turkey to Host Zelensky-Putin Summit as Peace Talks Stall

#Ukraine #Turkey #Russia #Peace

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Iran's Communist Party Calls for Popular Government to Lead National Reconstruction The Tudeh Party of Iran, the country's historic communist organisation, welcomes the announcement of a temporary ceasefire between Iran and ...

Iran's Communist Party Calls for Popular Government to Lead National Reconstruction

#Tudeh #Iran #US #War

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Iran Keeps Door Open to Diplomacy but Grows Increasingly Skeptical of U.S. Good Faith Iran is signaling that it has not abandoned diplomacy as a path to ending its conflict with the United States, but a cascade of grievances —...

Iran Keeps Door Open to Diplomacy but Grows Increasingly Skeptical of U.S. Good Faith

#Iran #US #Trump #Peace

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Is the Regional Ceasefire on the Verge of Collapse? Regional tensions are escalating sharply following the U.S. Central Command's (CENTCOM) announced attack on the Iranian oil tanker "Tosca," ...

Is the Regional Ceasefire on the Verge of Collapse?

#Iran #US #Trump #Israel #War

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She Has Nothing Left to Sell But Herself Iran's Wars — Foreign and Domestic — Are Destroying Women When a 29-year-old woman in Tehran was laid off last October — her employer shutte...

She Has Nothing Left to Sell But Herself

#Woman #Femicide #Prostitution #HumanRights

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Iran-US Ceasefire Nears Expiry as Islamabad Talks Hang in the Balance As a fragile 14-day ceasefire between Iran and the United States approached its expiration on Wednesday, both sides dug in on their position...

#Iran-#US #Ceasefire Nears Expiry as #Islamabad Talks Hang in the Balance

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Iran's Execution Machine Runs Uninterrupted as Diplomats Negotiate As American and Iranian officials hold fragile ceasefire negotiations and a watching world awaits the outcome of what may be the most conseq...

#Iran's #Execution Machine Runs Uninterrupted as Diplomats #Negotiate

#HumanRights

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Two Hundred Thousand Strong: The Levant Files Marks a Milestone Year The Levant Files has crossed a major threshold: over 200,000 visitors in just one year. This isn’t just a number for us — it’s a powerful si...

Two Hundred Thousand Strong: The Levant Files Marks a Milestone Year

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Ceasefire On The Brink: Us Seizes Iranian Ship, Tehran Refuses Talks As Wednesday Deadline Looms The fragile two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran teetered on the edge of total collapse on Monday, as the U.S. Navy fired o...

Ceasefire On The Brink: Us Seizes Iranian Ship, Tehran Refuses Talks As Wednesday Deadline Looms

#Iran #US #Trump #war

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Tehran Refuses Second Round of Talks, Demands End to US Naval Blockade Iran's negotiating team conditions any further diplomacy on the lifting of what Tehran characterises as an illegal maritime siege — as an IR...

Tehran Refuses Second Round of Talks, Demands End to US Naval Blockade

#Iran #US #Pakistan #War

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A Second Round in Islamabad in US–Iran Talks. But Is a Breakthrough Within Reach? Washington and Tehran are heading back to the Pakistani capital for a new round of negotiations, as the ceasefire teeters on expiry and Iran...

A Second Round in Islamabad in US–Iran Talks. But Is a Breakthrough Within Reach?

#US #Iran #Pakistan #war

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Hezbollah IEDs Claim Two Israeli Reservists as Group Shifts to Guerrilla Warfare Two Israeli reserve soldiers were killed and twelve others wounded in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Lebanon, Israeli milita...

#Hezbollah IEDs Claim Two Israeli Reservists as Group Shifts to Guerrilla Warfare

#Israel #Lebanon #war

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Qatar Counts the Cost of a War It Never Wanted Qatar, one of the world's wealthiest nations and a key diplomatic broker in the Middle East, has emerged from the US-Israeli military campai...

#Qatar Counts the Cost of a War It Never Wanted

#Iran #Hormuz #US

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Open, Closed, Fired Upon: The 24-Hour Whiplash in the World's Most Dangerous Strait In less than a day, Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz open, watched tankers turn back under gunfire, then shut it again — leaving global ...

Open, Closed, Fired Upon: The 24-Hour Whiplash in the World's Most Dangerous Strait

#Hormuz #US #Iran #Trump

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The Quartet Rising: How the Iran War Is Forging a New Muslim Power Bloc Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey have moved from diplomatic convenience to geopolitical agency — brokering a ceasefire, sidelining ...

The Quartet Rising: How the Iran War Is Forging a New Muslim Power Bloc

#Pakistan #SaudiArabia #Turkey #Egypt

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Lebanon Ceasefire Takes Hold as US-Iran Nuclear Deal Edges Closer A ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into effect at midnight Thursday, prompting celebrations and a mass return of displaced ...

#Lebanon #Ceasefire Takes Hold as #US-#Iran #Nuclear Deal Edges Closer

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Kıbrıs'ın Son İki Toplumlu Köyünde ve Ara Bölgesinde Egemenlik Çekişmesi On beş Türk ana muharebe tankı ateşkes hattının kuzeyinde motorları çalışır halde beklerken ve tartışmalı Çayhan Düzü adı verilen arazide es...

Kıbrıs'ın Son İki Toplumlu Köyünde ve Ara Bölgesinde Egemenlik Çekişmesi

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U.S.-Iran Talks Resume as Israel Presses Forward in Lebanon Fresh diplomatic negotiations between Washington and Tehran are expected to resume within days in Islamabad, Pakistan, as both sides weigh t...

U.S.-Iran Talks Resume as Israel Presses Forward in Lebanon

#US #Iran #Israel #Lebanon

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Cyprus' Last Bicommunal Village And The Legal Fiction No One Can Resolve As fifteen Turkish main battle tanks idled north of the ceasefire line and a Turkish flag snapped in the spring wind over the contested trac...

Cyprus' Last Bicommunal Village And The Legal Fiction No One Can Resolve

#Cyprus #Peace #InternationalLaw

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School Massacres Expose Turkey's Deepening Social Crisis as Conservative Education System Faces Reckoning A 14-year-old student opened fire at his own school in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş on April 15, killing nine people — eight s...

School Massacres Expose Turkey's Deepening Social Crisis as Conservative Education System Faces Reckoning

#Turkey #Education #Youth #Massacre

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A Veterinary Dispute in Pyla Lays Bare the Fault Lines of the Cyprus Problem The blocking of livestock vaccinations in the island’s last bicommunal village has escalated into a sovereignty standoff—and a mirror of dee...

A Veterinary Dispute in Pyla Lays Bare the Fault Lines of the Cyprus Problem

#Cyprus #Turkey #Problem #Peace

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Clicks Against Dissent: Turkish Cypriot Media Under Coordinated Cyber Attack Amid Cost-of-Living Uprising As thousands stormed the parliament building in the Turkish-controlled section of Nicosia over a frozen allowance decree, an orchestrated wa...

Clicks Against Dissent: Turkish Cypriot #Media Under Coordinated #Cyber #Attack Amid Cost-of-Living Uprising

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Turkish Analyst: Iran Ceasefire Holds, But a Durable Peace Remains Out of Reach Pakistan talks collapse without agreement as divisions within the US delegation and Israeli intransigence cast a long shadow over diplomacy ...

Turkish Analyst: #Iran Ceasefire Holds, But a Durable #Peace Remains Out of Reach

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Iran Warns of "Equal Security or Widespread Costs" in Strait of Hormuz Standoff NourNews, the Iranian state-aligned news outlet, frames Tehran's Hormuz posture as defensive sovereignty — but the message carries an unmist...

#Iran Warns of "Equal Security or Widespread Costs" in Strait of #Hormuz Standoff

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Israel–Iran War Aftermath: Mossad Vows Regime Change Push as Cluster Missiles Exposed Air-Defence Gaps Mossad Director Barnea declares the agency's mission unfinished until the Islamic Republic falls, while a new investigation reveals that Ira...

#Israel–#Iran #War Aftermath: #Mossad Vows #Regime Change Push as Cluster Missiles Exposed Air-Defence Gaps

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Chokepoint Zero: How the US Naval Blockade of Hormuz Just Broke the Global Economy Usually, when a major geopolitical crisis erupts, we expect diplomacy to act like a pressure valve—slowly and safely releasing the tension. ...

NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Chokepoint Zero: How the US Naval Blockade of Hormuz Just Broke the Global Economy

#Iran #US #Trump #Hormuz #Oil #Gas

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Ankara Uses Harsh Rhetoric Against Israel as Fidan Says Tel Aviv ‘Cannot Live Without Enemies’ Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli deliver some of Ankara’s sharpest public broadsides against the Netanyahu...

#Ankara Uses Harsh Rhetoric Against #Israel as #Fidan Says Tel Aviv ‘Cannot Live Without Enemies’

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Hezbollah Chief Rejects Direct Talks with Israel, Vows Continued Resistance Naim Qassem delivers address rejecting ceasefire framework violations and internal political pressure Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Nai...

#Hezbollah Chief Rejects Direct Talks with #Israel, Vows Continued #Resistance

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Palestinian Women Trafficked Into Polygamous Marriages in Israel Face Legal Limbo and Abuse Young women and girls brought from the West Bank describe years of violence and exploitation, with little recourse due to their lack of lega...

#Palestinian #Women #Trafficked Into Polygamous Marriages in #Israel Face Legal Limbo and Abuse

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