Link to Article https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/as-iran-threatens-israel-the-danger-of-tehrans-long-vaunted-missile-program-remains-in-question/ Iran has threatened Israel over its claimed assassination of a Hamas leader in the Iranian capital. Iran has stated that it will retaliate for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, in which Israel is the prime suspect. Iran launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Israel on April 13th of this year. However, Iran… Read more »
Link to article:https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/01/making-sense-iran-pakistan-cross-border-strikes On January 16, 2024, Iran launched missile strikes into Pakistan’s Baluchistan province targeting the group Jaish al-Adl which Iran claims operates from Pakistan. With Jaish al-Adl being mostly composed of Ethnic Baluch Sunni and Iran being mostly Shia causing tension between the two. This action was part of a much bigger escalation with Iran also hitting Iraq… Read more »
Link to Article The India Prime Minister is set to visit the US this weekend in an international summit with 4 countries. The countries meeting are India, Japan, Australia, and the US. They will be discussing Indo-Pacific issues around keeping strong ties and alliances in that key area of trade and defense. They are mainly concerned with international securities. The… Read more »
Link to Article: Iranian president pledges deeper ties with Moscow, state media says | Reuters Iran’s president committed to creating stronger ties with Russia to counter the Western sanctions. Russian security official, Sergei Shoigu, also visited with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and plans to develop relationships with both countries. The U.S. finds both countries hostile and worries they… Read more »
Link to article:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67281691 Pakistan has begun deporting thousands of Afghan refugees including those with valid IDs given out by the Pakistan government in previous years. Even some families that have been living there for decades and contributing to the work force of Pakistan’s economy. Over 200,000 have already been deported in the past two months. Human rights groups including Amnesty… Read more »
Link to article https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-president-visits-iraq-first-foreign-trip-2024-09-11/ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Iraq and and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. This was the President Pezeshkians first foreign trip as president of Iran and the intentions of the visit were to solidify relations between the two countries as war continues in the Middle East. The two countries met to discuss the continuing war… Read more »
Link to article https://www.reuters.com/world/scholz-kazakhstan-we-want-trade-wont-circumvent-sanctions-2024-09-16/ Germany is pursuing more expanded trade relations with Kazakhstan due to repercussions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Kazakhstan on September 16th to pursue relations with Kazakhstan. The West imposed sanctions on Russia after it had invaded Ukraine in February of 2022. Russia, a big producer of oil, no longer supplies… Read more »
Article Website: Germany wants trade with Kazakhstan, won’t circumvent Russia sanctions, Scholz says | Reuters Kazakh President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, met with German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in Astana, as Germany wants to expand trade in oil, rare earth, lithium, and other raw materials. The EU placed sanctions on Russia after they invaded Ukraine in 2022, causing Moscow to take indirect trade… Read more »
Link To Article On September 16, 2024, the president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, held a press conference in Tehran, Iran in which he states that if the United States of America shows that it is not hostile to the Islamic Republic, then Iran would be open to reinstate the 2015 nuclear pact that between the two countries. The 2015 nuclear… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/11/afghan-women-summit-taliban-albania Afghan women recently had a law made against them by the Taliban that prevented them from being able to speak in public or show any skin outside. This has come after continuous depletion of human rights for women under the three year reign of the Taliban including being prohibited from paid work, walking in public parks… Read more »
