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Items by Dr Faisal Al-Qasim
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Why is Iran winning and Saudi Arabia losing?
Saudi Arabia’s only concern appears to be a confrontation with Iran, which is seen as the Kingdom’s number one enemy. That’s what we can conclude from the Saudi media mobilisation against the Islamic Republic. However, Saudi policies on the ground are almost all serving the interests of Iranian projects....
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Don’t count on a divorce between Russia and Iran just yet
Since the Russian-Syrian alliance was forged in Syria several years ago, many have wondered what could bring together the former communist Russia and Shia Iran. The Russian government is nominally orthodox Christian, democratic and ostensibly capitalist, as well as a system based upon the farming of intelligence. Iran, meanwhile,...