Mon 20 January 2020: Soleimani is the product of the same historical events that have curbed popular sovereignty and democracy in the region. A plethora of articles has been published in recent days on the US air strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Many authors claim that it “is […]
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Sun 19 January 2020: Iraq is far too fragile to find itself on a collision course with the US, for the sake of Iran. In the aftermath of the US drone strike that took out infamous Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qasem Soleimani, Tehran’s allies in Baghdad have been making noise about forcing […]
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Sat 18 January 2020: The Arab Spring is not a singular event with a beginning and an end. Another year, another decade, another round of bad news in the Middle East. Last week’s headlines featured: death in Egyptian prisons, clashes in Sudan, worsening humanitarian crises in Yemen and Syria, illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Palestine, political paralysis in Tunisia, failure of […]
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Thu 16 January 2020: The clash between the ‘resistance’ and ‘revolutionary’ movements will define the Middle East in the future. The events surrounding the US assassination of Iranian Quds Force leader Major General Qassem Soleimani brought to the surface the two main ideological forces that now battle each other across the Middle East – the […]
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Tue 14 January 2020: Messiah is not egregiously Islamophobic like ‘Homeland’ but if you dig deeper, the Orientalism starts to show. The new Netflix series ‘Messiah‘ is set on an objectively exciting premise. The problem? It ends up being little more than a reinforcement of naive American foreign policy (and for a Middle Easterner or Muslim, […]
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Thu 09 January 2019: The U.S. drone strike that targeted and killed top Iranian commander, Maj-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, generated an extraordinary amount of controversy in U.S. policy circles, even by the standards of Middle East issues. While some admire President Donald Trump’s boldness in targeting Soleimani, many others were quick to decry it as a […]
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Wed 08 January 2019: Idlib today bears the brunt of the Assad regime’s Soleimani-inspired scorched earth strategy which will blight Syria for a long time to come. It’s darkly ironic that at the time when the US government assassinated Major-General Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it emerged that […]
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And Trump’s reckless decision to assassinate him will not result in ‘World War III’. Tue 07 January 2019: Immediately after news broke of the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, some left-wing circles in the West proclaimed with great confidence – yet again – that World War III was […]
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Mon 06 January 2020: Both Washington and Tehran have embarked on reckless foreign policies in Iraq, which deny Baghdad sovereignty and have led to constant instability. While the world is enraptured by the potential fallout of the US drone strike that killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qassem Soleimani, many are forgetting the plight of […]
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Sun 05 January 2020: The most plausible reason why President Trump ordered the assassination of the Iranian general commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, is to shift attention away from the ongoing impeachment process in the US media. Soleimani and the commander of the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia in Iraq, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, were killed by a […]
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