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Putin to engage in economic talks at New Delhi BRICS summit, Kremlin confirms.

India is preparing to host the annual BRICS summit this September, as it takes on the role of chair for the group this year. The gathering in New Delhi is set to feature notable global leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has confirmed his attendance for the event scheduled on September 12-13. This announcement comes from a Kremlin aide, emphasizing the significance of...

Iran Uses War’s Spillover to Pressure Gulf States Into Rethinking Their Alliances

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has deliberately used the war's regional spillover to pressure Gulf states into rethinking their alliances, linking their security and development directly to their decision about hosting US and Israeli military forces. His message, delivered more than a month into the conflict, is a calculated attempt to leverage the war's costs to reshape Gulf alignments. Tehran appears to be pursuing a...

IEA Chief Birol Warns Record Oil Reserve Release Is Just 20 Percent of What Could Be Deployed

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, has revealed that the record-breaking 400 million barrel release from strategic petroleum reserves represents only...

Gulf Allies Urge Trump to Restrain Netanyahu After Controversial Gas Field Strike

Regional pressure on Washington intensified this week after Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, with Gulf nations urging US President Donald Trump to...

 Iran’s Guards Announce Imminent Strikes on Gulf Oil Hubs After Israeli Attack on South Pars Gas Reserve

Iran placed the Gulf region on edge Wednesday by announcing that energy infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar would be struck "in...

Trump Says NATO Should Be ‘Ashamed’ After Sitting Out Iran Military Campaign

President Donald Trump implied NATO should be ashamed of itself on Tuesday after member nations declined to join the US-Israel military campaign against Iran....

European Countries Confront Trump’s Hormuz Demands with Unified Refusal

European nations confronted Donald Trump's Hormuz demands with a unified refusal this week, declining to provide warships and insisting that a negotiated diplomatic solution...

Trump Calls for Iran’s Complete Military Dismantling as War Approaches Catastrophic New Phase

President Donald Trump signaled on Friday that the United States intended nothing less than the complete dismantling of Iran's military capabilities, announcing the obliteration...

Oil Surges to $100 as Trump Delivers His Clearest Statement Yet on Why America Is at War

President Trump delivered his clearest statement yet on Thursday about why America is at war with Iran: to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons....

Trump Marks Return of U.S. Refining with $300 Billion Brownsville Project

The landscape of American energy is set for a major transformation following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new $300 billion refinery. Situated in...

Trump Reassures Nation: “Iran War is Almost Over”

President Donald Trump has sought to reassure the American public that the war in Iran is nearing its conclusion. Trump stated that the mission...

Iran Conflict Puts Britain’s International Standing Under the Microscope

The Iran conflict has placed Britain's international standing under a level of scrutiny that is unusual even by the standards of a country accustomed...

A Republic at the Crossroads: The Constitutional Crisis in Tehran

The sudden assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader has triggered a constitutional mechanism that hasn’t been used in over thirty years. As the nation reels...

Trump Slams Iran’s Proxies as Engines of Terror and Destruction

President Trump reserved some of his harshest language during his State of the Union Address for Iran's network of regional proxies, accusing Tehran of...