Sputnik - Russia, Turkey and Iran need to team up in the face of the pressure exerted on them by Washington, Iranian analysts told Sputnik, commenting on the September trilateral meeting in Tehran. According to them, Moscow, Tehran and Ankara could work out a joint strategy to resist the US sanctions policy. "Not only the Syrian question brought ...

Iranian Diplomacy |Hassan Hanizadeh: A three-day conflict broke out in Kirkuk between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga forcesfollowing the Kurdish independence referendum that took place in late September. With the help of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Iraqi central government has turned out to be the winner in the skirmish which ended yesterday ...

Sputnik - Commenting on Qatar's recent statement that it decided to return its ambassador to Tehran and "strengthen ties in all fields" with the Islamic Republic, Iranian political analyst Hassan Hanizadeh explained to Sputnik Iran what this move might actually signify. On Wednesday, the Qatari Foreign Ministry announced that it had decided ...

IFP - A political commentator says the United States seeks to protect and maintain the presence of the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq. Political expert Hassan Hanizadeh has, in an interview with the Mizan News Agency, weighed in on the US air and ground attacks on the Sayyid al-Shuhada Brigades of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in ...

Sputnik News- Commenting on the 13-point ultimatum Qatar received from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt specifying what the peninsular nation must do in return for a restoration of ties, Iranian political analyst Hassan Hanizadeh told Sputnik who is really behind these demands and why Riyadh won't resort to an open military ...

Sputnik - Turkish Hurriyet Daily News has recently reported that Ankara will build a wall with towers and iron fences along the Turkish-Iranian border as a protective measure against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Iranian political analyst Hassan Hanizadeh commented to Sputnik on the effort saying that his home country poses no threat to its neighbors....

Sputnik - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to play up the 'Iranian threat' are gaining steam. Last week, officials claimed that Iran was looking to build a naval base in Syria. A week earlier, Netanyahu went to Moscow to say that Iran was a threat to the region. Mideast politics expert Hassan Hanizadeh says Netanyahu's theories are ...

Washington is trying to deter any possible alliance between Russia, Turkey and Iran on Syria: if the three countries unite their efforts against the terrorists, the jihadists will easily be defeated and the US will thereby lose its ability to destabilize the region, Iranian political analyst and former journalist Hassan Hanizadeh told Sputnik. The ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An analyst says Iran's new administration has adopted a new approach in its foreign policy and is after improvement of ties with the West, but that this changed tack should not be confused with a retreat from the principles of the Islamic Revolution. The heroic flexibility approach in diplomacy does not mean retreating from the known ...