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Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
U.S. grants temporary waiver for purchases of Russian oil amid Middle East energy shock
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States has issued a 30-day waiver allowing countries to purchase Russian oil and petroleum products...
Chinese expert says U.S. focus on Middle East could shift military balance in Taiwan Strait
BEIJING (Realist English). China could gain a strategic advantage in the Taiwan Strait if U.S. military resources continue to shift...
IRGC’s Quds Force vows retaliation against U.S. and Israel after Khamenei’s death
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has accused the United States and Israel...
US deploys low-cost LUCAS drones to counter Iran’s Shahed fleet
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States has begun deploying a new low-cost attack drone designed to counter Iran’s widely used...
Trump warns Iran against mining Strait of Hormuz as tensions escalate
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face military consequences “at a level never seen before”...
Pentagon says US will continue Iran war until “decisive defeat”
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran’s leadership is “desperate and scrambling” as the conflict between the...
Trump considers easing oil sanctions to stabilize global energy prices
MIAMI (Realist English). US President Donald Trump said his administration may temporarily ease sanctions on certain oil-producing countries in an...
Putin and Trump discuss Iran conflict and Ukraine in phone call
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a phone conversation on Monday evening to...
Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
Baku hysteria: Aliyev demands Russia remove Nagorno-Karabakh from Channel One map
BAKU (Realist English). Another bout of political allergy has struck Baku. Ilham Aliyev's dictatorial regime demanded "clear explanations" from Russia after...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
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