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We’re eternal optimists
After an absence of more than a year from American television, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman faced the American public and the world through an interview Sunday on the CBS program “60 Minutes”, which has high viewer ratings.This was the second time the Crown Prince appeared on this program, which the American network used to start the new television season. It was an ideal platform that was used by Crown Prince Muhammad to deliver clear and convincing messages to all concerned parties in the region and the world.The most dramatic moment in the interview was when the Crown Prince, when asked if he made mistakes, said: “Even prophets made mistakes. So how come we, as humans, expect not to make mistakes? The important thing is that we learn from these mistakes.”Displaying...
October 01, 2019

We’re eternal optimists

Iran’s Holy Defense
Iran celebrated the so-called “Holy Defense Week” on September 22, to mark the anniversary of the entry of Iraqi forces into Iranian territory in 1980. It is noteworthy that Iran considers its holy defense linked to its battle with an Arab nation and not with a Western nation or Israel.On the following day, coinciding with the Saudi National Day, Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah in a speech attacked the Kingdom. Although this is usual, what is remarkable was that this speech came from the office of Ali Khamenei.This is a message to all the spineless people or those with good intentions who believe that Hezbollah or the Houthis make decisions that are free from Iranian influence. Therefore, it is to be expected that Hezbollah takes an interest in Lebanon in parallel with the interests...
October 01, 2019

Iran’s Holy Defense

Kashmir should be free
October 27, 1947 is forever scarred into the collective memory of the Kashmiri people as the day they became occupied. And more recently the arbitrary abrogation by the BJP government of Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which gave special status to the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, signaled the tightening of the armed occupation of a people and stands as a collective affront to freedom, justice and honorable people throughout the world.The historical dilemma began in 1846 with the illegal, immoral and inhumane sale of the historic state of Jammu and Kashmir to a non-Kashmiri Dogra family for services rendered to the British Raj. From that point onwards, Kashmiris have longed for self-determination. Yet, tragically, their legitimate aspirations were crushed by the grotesque,...
October 01, 2019

Kashmir should be free

Austria not entirely right
THE political news from Austria is not all bad. Yes, the right-wing, anti-immigrant conservative party of Sebastian Kurz has actually increased its electoral support winning the most votes; but the brazenly Islamophobic Freedom Party, the former governing coalition partner of Kurz’s People’s Party, saw its vote drop sharply.It was a video exposing the sleaze and payola of the Freedom Party’s then leader Heinz-Christian Strache that brought about this snap general election. Strache was the victim of a sting mounted by an Austrian lawyer. He went to the Spanish Ibiza resort for what he believed were confidential talks with the daughter of a Russian oligarch. He was caught on camera offering the woman Austrian government contracts if she would fund his party or operations closely...
October 01, 2019

Austria not entirely right

Officials who made a difference!
There are ministers or officials in some political departments who play a leading role in their country’s policies and administration, forming the nation’s direction and leaving a more important historical imprint than their superiors. I thought about this as I read about the dismissal of John Bolton, who came to the post of America’s national security adviser with a reputation for being a hardline conservative and hawkish politician. As soon as he came to office, US attitudes with Venezuela and North Korea became more severe.However, his policies did not fit the “deep state,” as represented by the State Department, the Department of Defense, the CIA and the Treasury, who make recommendations to President Trump. As a result, Bolton was politically marginalized and finally...
September 30, 2019

Officials who made a difference!

Saudi options vis-à-vis Iran
Undoubtedly, Iran with its history of provocation, aggression and hostility favors the option of war because it believes that this will enable it to set the entire region on fire and make everyone pay a heavy price. This will then give Tehran the opportunity to sit at the negotiation table and try to tip the scales in favor of its own interest.Iran loses due to the no war option in the medium and long term, because its economic situation is worsening day by day. Furthermore, it may also lose the sympathy of countries, such as Germany, Russia and China that trade with it. The no war option will also contribute to exposing the falsehoods promoted by the Iranian media machine, as well as its allies and sympathizers.In this way it will be made clear that there was never any justification for...
September 28, 2019

Saudi options vis-à-vis Iran

Beijing’s new mega airport
THE world’s largest airport has just been opened by Chinese president President Xi Jinping. With a single building spanning an immense 700,000 square meters, Daxing International becomes Beijing’s second main airport. Beijing Capital was already straining to cope. After Atlanta in the United States, it has become the world’s busiest. Along with Daxing, it is expected to handle some 170 million passengers in the next five years.With its four runways and huge starfish single structure, it took less than five years to construct and is reported to have cost some $63 billion. Daxing is connected to Beijing, 43 kilometers away, by a new high-speed rail link that runs trains at 250 kph. Its opening by Xi came only days before China celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Communist seizure of...
September 27, 2019

Beijing’s new mega airport

British Brexit bedlam
BRITISH politics are in chaos. The country’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the new Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson acted illegally when he suspended parliament for five weeks on the grounds that as a new administration he was entitled to do this in preparation for a “Queen’s speech” in which he would set out his policies for the rest of the parliamentary term.Had British MPs not met for 24 working days until Oct. 14, there would have been only 14 more sessions before Oct. 31, the date at which parliament itself had set for the UK to leave the European Union. Johnson’s opponents argued this would have been insufficient time to debate any new deal that the government might possibly have extracted from EU negotiators in Brussels and to take a view on Brexit...
September 26, 2019

British Brexit bedlam

Will there be a war?
Since the Iranian terrorist attack on two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia on Sep.14, the most repeated question in the region is: “Will this lead to war?!CBS television reported that weapons experts are monitoring GPS systems that were recovered from the Abqaiq and Khurais oilfields in Saudi Arabia after being targeted by drones. CBS explained that GPS systems allow investigators to track the flight of drones and missiles from their target in Saudi Arabia to the airports or platforms from which they were launched.Investigators from the United States, France and the United Nations are analyzing the parts of the weapons used in the terrorist attack. After years of being out of the public eye, former US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on CBS to say he believed that Iran was behind the...
September 25, 2019

Will there be a war?

Trump and Modi
As theater it was outstanding. As politics, it was a great deal more doubtful. Some 50,000 Texans crammed into a Houston stadium as President Donald Trump paraded with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an event billed as “Howdy Modi!”. Trump and his guest were given a rousing welcome.Both leaders laid on the compliments to each other with a trowel. Trump said how thrilled he was to be in Texas with one of America’s “greatest, most devoted and most loyal friends”. Modi reciprocated saying of Trump: “From CEO to commander-in-chief, from boardrooms to the Oval Office, from studios to the global stage... he has left a lasting impact everywhere”.Pundits commented that this mutual backslapping benefited both leaders. Trump wants to win the Indian vote in next year’s...
September 25, 2019

Trump and Modi

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