July, 2022

• 14 July

  Iran’s Raisi links regional dust storms to Western hegemony

  

  Tehran recently hosted a regional summit on addressing the dust storms that have ravaged the area over the past two years. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi accused Western powers of playing into the destruction of environment by tapping into the Middle East’s natural resources. Raisi was addressing a regional summit in …

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• 14 July

  Erdogan, Putin set to meet in Tehran

  

  The Turkish, Iranian and Russian leaders are set to meet in Tehran next week amid lingering Turkish threats against Syrian Kurdish groups. Putin and Erdogan will separately discuss the Ukrainian grain crisis. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Tehran next week, …

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• 14 July

  Iran weighs benefits of BRICS membership

  

  While joining the bloc has its upsides, it will be extremely difficult for Tehran to get full benefits from BRICS without the complete lifting of Western sanctions. Recently, Iran applied to join BRICS, a group consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. On a global level, this forum …

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• 14 July

  Raisi says Iran will not retreat on demands in nuclear talks

  

  Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will not back down on its positions in the nuclear deal negotiations. In a Cabinet meeting today, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi discussed the ongoing deadlock with the United States over the nuclear negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal known formally as …

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• 14 July

  The EU Has Lots of Options for Targeting Russian Oil. It Should Use Them

  

  In banning Russian coal imports from August onward, the European Union has finally broken the “energy taboo” that had beset its discussions of punitive sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine. Yet, the coal ban is not going to hit Russia’s economy very hard. With the clock now ticking …

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• 14 July

  The EU Finally Approves a Ban on Russian Oil

  

  European Union leaders agreed this week to a partial ban on Russian oil imports, overcoming a veto by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. But the agreement commits only to banning seaborne imports to the EU by the end of 2022, leaving Russian oil imported by pipeline untouched. Seaborne imports account …

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• 14 July

  The Russia-Ukraine Crisis Has Removed All Doubt. We’re in a New Cold War

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose speech yesterday, in which he announced that Russia had recognized the independence of two separatist regions of Ukraine and would deploy military forces there as “peacekeepers,” suggests that after months of military posturing and diplomacy, a full-scale invasion may well be at hand. But while …

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• 14 July

  Putin Wants to Rewrite the End of the Cold War

  

  When the Soviet Union collapsed three decades ago, the European security architecture suddenly became uncertain, its future put in play. After all, much of the postwar balance of power in Europe—and the world—had rested on the icy pillars of the Cold War, pillars that in 1991 abruptly melted. It didn’t …

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• 14 July

  Xi Sees the Ukraine War Through the Lens of the U.S.-China Rivalry

  

  Not long after the commencement of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I wrote that for China, binding itself tightly to Moscow would do harm to Beijing’s long-term interests. That is because, I wrote, an alliance between a superpower like China and a far less dynamic country like Russia, whose economy is …

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• 14 July

  The War in Ukraine Is Testing China’s New Partnership With Russia

  

  As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to draw outrage and reprisals from the international community, China is maintaining the cautious distance from Moscow it has taken since the onset of the crisis, with many observers suggesting that Beijing may have been caught unaware by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to …

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