Why Iran is betting on escalation?
Last few months, the Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters have become an area of various provocations and geopolitical struggle. In the 1980s, this…
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Ali HajizadeEditor’s column |
Last few months, the Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters have become an area of various provocations and geopolitical struggle. In the 1980s, this…
Iran has been suffering from severe floods for almost two months, and in certain ostans floods are still ongoing. The disaster resulted in a large…
Obama’s Administration has left really tough heritage in the Middle East to the Republican Administration. USA could play a crucial role in the Middle East…
Iran is on the headlines of the Western media outlets. Newspapers, web-sites and TV channels devote great attention to Iran, its nuclear and missile program,…
Azerbaijanis living in this country (both in Southern Azerbaijan and other parts of Iran) always played an important and active role in the socio-political life…
Bouazizi’s immolation in Tunis marked the beginning of the Arab Spring, which has started in 2011. Regimes and dictators of varying degrees of bloodiness, that…
Many experts and even people far from politics are familiar with so-called “The Great Middle East Plan” (sometimes called a conception or initiative). In this…
Lately, several highly respected experts have been talking about the emergence of the new “geopolitical alliance”, namely the occurrence of the “Moscow-Tehran-Ankara” axis. Certain experts…
Once in a while the USA President Donald Trump said something smart, but this time he was not supported by the European allies. The other…
The visit of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud to Russia generated considerable interest far beyond Riyadh and Moscow. The Western media seldom…
Saudi Arabia is an extremely conservative monarchy. The country has been ruled by elderly kings for a long time. Some believe that this “authority of…
For some countries, at the end of the 20th century, “soft power” became an active instrument used by states to promote their foreign policy and…
The ancient Iraqi city of Kirkuk, is one of the important cultural and historical centers of Turkic culture and history. In addition, Kirkuk is located…
Recently, the Azerbaijani and Georgian public were stirred by news, or rather photos and videos filmed in Georgia. These photos and videos showed how Russian…
Yesterday, we received a notice from Roskomnadzor, (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) which says that they…
As you know at the end of the last year, the blogger Alexander Lapshin was detained in Minsk at the request of Azerbaijan. Lapshin was…
As you know, Israel periodically strikes on Syrian territory. These shocks are mainly applied for military purposes. The last such strike took place on Friday…
Some experts believe that the era of US domination in the Middle East is irreversibly over and China is slowly but surely taking Washington’s place,…
This time, in my editorial I would like to address the issue of EU-Turkey relations. Not the relationship between Turkey and individual European countries, but…
The modern Middle East is a fabric that consists of countries with different kinds of regimes and forms of government. Once, almost the entire Middle…
Since ancient times, water is an important component of life, for both people and animals. In dry areas water has been and still is worth…
This is my first post in my editorial, it so happened that it coincided with another wave of protests in South Azerbaijan (some sources call…