May 12, 2025
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Trump is no ally of Israel and Netanyahu needs to act now

by Giovanni Giacalone It is widely known how the Biden administration was quite problematic for Israel with its pressure to limit the IDF’s actions against Hamas, the entrance into Rafah, cutting the weapon shipment and imposing continuous “humanitarian aid” into Gaza that went straight into Hamas’ pockets. However, sometimes things can only get worse and, […]

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Examining the Impact and Implications of the Bandar Abbas Explosion

by Turan Rzayev As is known, on April 26, an explosion occurred in the Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, located in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran. According to the information provided by the “Tasnim” agency, the explosion was caused by the detonation of a fuel storage tank. It was reported that the blast […]

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Expectations of the US-Iran Talks: Round 2 in Rome

by Rustam Taghizade   The initial outcome of the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States on Saturday cannot be considered a complete success. It is hypothesised that in this particular instance, Iran is seeking to prolong the negotiation phase. The present article will analyse questions of the following nature: firstly, what is the […]

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Conflict Minerals and the End of the USAID: What the Future Holds

by Scott Morgan On March 25th a hearing was held in the US House of Representatives Foreign Relations committee regarding conflict minerals, mining and the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The timing of the hearing was both crucial and impeccable. One of the drivers of the current newscycle happens to be the successful […]

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The protests of Azerbaijani Turks in Urmia: The Underlying Causes and Associated Processes

by Rustam Taghizade. 1. The context of ethnic tensions in Iran: Iran is a multinational state, where Persians constitute approximately 60% of the population, alongside significant minority groups, including Azerbaijani Turks (16-24%), Kurds (7-10%), Baloch, Arabs and others. These ethnic minorities have historically faced systematic discrimination, including restrictions on cultural and linguistic rights, economic marginalization […]

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Kazakhstan and the United States: A New Chapter in Bilateral Relations?

by Damir Zaidullayev Astana, March 20, 2025 — President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with U.S. Congresswoman Carol Miller to discuss key aspects of the bilateral relationship between Kazakhstan and the United States. Against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical dynamics and cuts in U.S. foreign aid, the meeting underscored the evolving nature of Kazakhstan-U.S. cooperation and raised […]

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Podcast Patriots: Conservatives Ditch TV for the Airwaves

by Talgat Kabdygali 1. Introduction A trucker on I-70 flips Trump twerps flying off CNN who now have nothing good to talk about and tunes into Ben Shapiro’s incineration of the Left’s most recent mess. From Ohio to Floria, a factory worker skips Hannity’s safe, scripted monologue and tunes into Steven Crowder offering truth bombs. […]

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How Trump 2.0 May Be Shaping Up to Be Different from Trump 1.0

by Scott Morgan The second Trump Administration is well underway with the contrasts to the previous four years very noticeable. There are several crucial reasons for this. First off has to be the term of former President Joe Biden. Although Mr. Biden campaigned as a moderate and pledged to unify the country after the COVID […]

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Everything you need to know about the Abedini/Sala deal

by Giovanni Giacalone The Sala-Abedini negotiation fiasco, certainly not a “diplomatic success” for Italy Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi (38), the Iranian engineer arrested on December 16th in Milan on US request was released shortly after 9 am on Sunday January 12th, 2025, at the request of the Italian Minister of Justice, Caro Nordio. The judges of […]

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The Transformation of Antisemitism and the Identity of the Jewish People

by Elisa Garfagna Contemporary antisemitism has taken on a new guise, evolving into something profoundly different from what we knew in the past. What we see today in our societies is no longer the classic antisemitism, but rather a phenomenon that could be described as a “Palestinianization” or sectarian “Islamization” that has permeated the social […]

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