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Iran’s brinkmanship doomed to failure

  • Time is running out for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his government. Last week, he was summoned by parliament to answer questions on the country’s mounting economic crisis and, in a rare rebuke, his explanations — he blamed the economic woes on an “American conspiracy” — were rejected a...
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Why celebrating Daesh’s defeat in Syria may be premature

  • As the drama surrounding the so-called final battle against Daesh in Syria continues to unfold, the question on everyone’s mind is this: Has the terrorist group been defeated, as US President Donald Trump claims? Certainly not many are inclined to agree with the president, either at home or ...
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New PA government politically and economically shackled

  •   Mohammed Shtayyeh is sworn in as prime minister in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on April 13, 2019. (AFP) A new Palestinian Authority (PA) government was sworn in last week, days after Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and other right-wing parties won a majority in t...
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IRGC has a different priority to Tehran government

  • Iran stands accused of carrying out last week’s twin attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, with more countries pointing the finger at Tehran. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that “there’s no doubt” Iran was behind these attacks and others. Washington has since announced i...
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Corruption the focus of protesters’ ire across the region

  • In Lebanon and Iraq, angry protests against the ruling classes continue unabated, and they have one thing in common: The rage against rampant corruption. Regardless of the political demands that millions of protesters make every day, it is corruption that lies at the heart of their discontent w...
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Iraq on difficult but not impossible journey to reform

  • The line between total chaos and the semblance of a political process has been blurred following Sunday’s acceptance by the Iraqi Parliament of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s resignation. This is new territory for post-2003 Iraq: The first time that a sitting premier has been ousted as a res...
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Israel will discredit the ICC ahead of historic probe

  • Five years after joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) and asking it to investigate Israeli war crimes, the Palestinian Authority is being rewarded with an historic decision by the court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who stated this week that there was sufficient evidence to inves...
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Divided EU unable to make collective stand against Trump’s peace plan

  • The EU is in flux over how to react to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, released last month in Washington. EU foreign ministers met in Brussels on Monday to discuss their stand amid pressure by Israel, which wants the 27-member bloc to tone down its reaction to the plan. Th...
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History might not be harsh on Mubarak after all

  • The death of former President Hosni Mubarak in a Cairo hospital at the age of 91 this week marks the end of an era in Egyptian political life. His rule lasted for 30 years until his ouster in February 2011. Mubarak led Egypt at a time of great regional upheavals and, to his credit, he was able ...
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Unity a necessity for Jordan, Egypt and Iraq

  • Amid shifting geopolitical sands, three Arab countries are reacting by closing ranks and seeking to coordinate their positions. Jordan, Egypt and Iraq have underscored the importance of jointly facing common political and economic challenges at a time when the region is going through major uphe...
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