Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unidentified-drone-strike-targets-iranian-fuel-convoy-syria-iraqi-sources-2022-11-09/ Two fuel trucks were destroyed via air strike by an unidentified drone on the Syrian side border with Iraq. Targeting convoys that were carrying Iranian fuel. The convoy was of 22 tankers carrying fuel to Lebanon crossing through Iraq to Syria. Iran press confirmed the strike and accused the United States of being responsible. Though, the… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-pursue-syria-targets-after-iraq-operation-against-kurdish-militants-2022-11-15/ After recent deadly bombing in Istanbul, Turkey plans to pursue targets in Syria after completion of the on-going operation against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in Iraq. The PKK, as well as the SDF (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) has denied any involvement regarding the bombing that killed 6 people and injuring around 80. The suspected bomber… Read more »
Link of article: https://www.reuters.com/world/greece-iran-agree-release-two-greek-tankers-seized-by-tehran-2022-11-16/ In response to the confiscation of oil by the United States from an Iranian-flagged tanker off the Greek coast in April, Iran detained Greek flagged tankers in May. Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the two Greek seized tankers were released as well as the seized Iranian flagged tanker under agreement between Iran and Greece. All creating… Read more »
Iran has supposedly made threats to Saudi Arabia concerning their coverage of the protests happening in Tehran due to the morality police. The US has received word of the conceived threat and have publicly stated that they would be willing to act in defense for the interests of the US and their middle east partners. Iran obviously denies that these… Read more »
Iran’s currency has recently plunged due to mounting protests and recent holds up with negotiating the nuclear deal. The rial has continuously declined, falling to about 362,000 rial per 1 USD. When the nuclear deal was signed, the rial was exchanging at around 10 times the amount that it currently is. However, after the US had backed out of the… Read more »
Last Updated 11/04/22 Block 6 Earlier this month, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is to visit India for the US-India Economic and Financial Partnership meeting on November 11th. The goal for the U.S interest in this meeting is to make sure India knows that we are fighting for them with Russia. Recently, India has been appearing on team Russia, but… Read more »
Moscow and Iran are improving their relations amidst the Ukrainian war. Iran has expressly stated that it doesn’t support the war and is in favor of a cease fire. However, their relations are supposedly improving on a “strategic” level in response to the sanctions placed by the US and western partners. This meeting happened following Iran’s admission to selling military… Read more »
Last Updated 10/20/22 Block 6 Following India’s “Agnipath” or “Path of fire” military revamp, Nepal is being hurt by the change in how the military gets its long term soldiers. The revamp features a top 1/4 keep and send the rest of the 3/4 troops out with 15k pay out for the 4 years they spent training so they can… Read more »
Last Updated 11/08/22 Block 6 For the past few months, India has been working to improve relations with Russia, previously more neutral in U.S and NATO eyes, now choosing to favorite Russia over the west. Multiple statements from the Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar indicating that the Indian government has, for at least now, chosen to be on team Russia but… Read more »
