RT - While the US envisages a new military alliance as a tool to counter potential threats from Iran towards the Gulf monarchies and the Middle East, there are a number of obstacles in the way of creating an Arab military bloc.
According toDefense News, an Arab NATO would consist of six Gulf states, i.e. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...
RT - Although the US might not be planning to invade Iran, its belligerent rhetoric shows that it prefers intimidation over dialogue in dealing with Tehran. Such strategy may leave both the US and the world in a deadlock, experts warn.
On Friday, Australian media reported that the US is allegedlypreparedto bomb Iran's nuclear sites. These reports ...
Sputnik - The fact that Iran's average daily oil exports currently stand at 2.6 million barrels indicates that Tehran has managed to overcome the most difficult period of the anti-Iranian sanctions, Vladimir Sazhin, a Russian expert on the Middle East, told Sputnik.
He recalled that the most severe blow toIran's economyand finances was ...
Sputnik - Iran has responded to US sanctions by increasing the funding of its missile program, Vladimir Sazhin, an expert on Mideast affairs told Sputnik, adding that over recent decades Tehran's rocket industry has made considerable progress.
Tehran has made considerable progress inmissile production bycreating over20 types ofrockets,...
Sputnik - Neither Iran nor its business partners are interested in Tehran's exit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), expert on Mideast affairs Vladimir Sazhin told Sputnik, explaining that contrary to the panic-mongers' belief Iran won't be able to create an atomic bomb within weeks in case it withdraws from the nuclear deal.
Those ...
Sputnik News- The Saudi and Israeli lobbies are pushing the US president to rip up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, but Trump will find it difficult to do so given the strength of international support for the deal, Middle Eastern expert Vladimir Sazhin told Sputnik.
The US has added 18 Iranian entities and individuals toits sanctions ...
Sputnik - The Persian Gulf diplomatic crisis plays in the hands of Iran. Iran is using the current tensions in the Arab world to boost its political and economic influence in the Middle East, according to analyst Vladimir Sazhin.
The Qatari diplomatic crisis seems tohave passed its highest point and is likely toenter the lukewarm phase. Recently,...
Sputnik News- The Trump administration is ramping up its anti-Iranian policy. This is evidenced by recent statements from President Trump himself, and those from other high-ranking US officials. What are the 'sins' Washington is accusing Tehran of committing? Just how far will the White House be able to go? How will Tehran react? Sputnik Persian investigates....
Vestnik Kavkaza - The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will start his official two-day visitto Moscownext Monday, the Kremlinpress service said today. During the visit, Rouhaniwill hold talks with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the eve of the event, the senior research fellow of the Department of Near and Middle East at theInstitute for Oriental ...
Sputnik- The Trump administration is unlikely to pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran, but goading Tehran threatens to endanger security in the Middle East, expert in Middle Eastern affairs Vladimir Sazhin told Sputnik Persian.
The US and the Islamic Republic ofIran have never been ongood terms, buttheir relationship has taken a turn forthe worst ...
Sputnik- The recent deal to freeze oil output agreed by OPEC and other major oil-producing countries has resulted in a 16 percent increase in the oil price since late November; that increase may have been even more if it weren't for Iran's massive rise in production, Vladimir Sazhin told Sputnik Persian.
According tofigures fromOPEC, Iran produced ...
TASS- A roadmap for developing military and technical cooperation between Russia and Iran will be worked out in the next four years, Senior Researcher of the Center for Middle East Studies Vladimir Sazhin said on Friday.
"Large-scale groundwork has been laid for the future," the researcher said at a roundtable discussion titled: "Iran: A Year after ...
The unique features of the Caspian Sea has dogged decades of negotiations on the status of the body of water, political scientist Vladimir Sazhin told Sputnik Persian.
This week the 47th Session ofthe Special Working Group (SWG) onthe development ofthe Convention onthe Legal Status ofthe Caspian Sea met inTehran, where deputy foreign ministers ofthe ...
Iran launched an oil and gas development tender for foreign companies, in a bid to ramp up investments into the industry after years of sanctions.
Interested companies will now have to submit their bids until November 19. The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) will announce the winners on December 7. Many major oil companies, including Russian ...
With Iran supporting the revival of the Great Silk Road that once connected East Asia with Europe, Sputnik asked Moscow-based Oriental-affairs expert Vladimir Sazhin to about the role Tehran will play in this major geopolitical project.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser toIran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, confirmed Tehrans backing forthe ...
On the one hand, Russia is settling relations with Turkey and on the other, it expands relations with Iran
MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. The current trend towards Russias cooperation with Iran, on the one hand, and the turn for the better in relations with Tehrans regional rival Turkey, on the other, have made some analysts hopeful a new strategic triangle ...
MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Failure to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program could lead to an international crisis and alter international politics, though the signing of a nuclear agreement could also have substantial negative impacts, experts said Tuesday.
"Both Obama and Rouhani need some material confirmation of the righteousness of ...
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