January, 2024

• 31 January

  Iran Update, January 29, 2024

  

  Key Takeaways: Jordan: Iran and its proxies are advancing an information operation to obfuscate the origin of the January 28 attack that killed three US service members in Jordan. Statements from Kataib Hezbollah before the attack and Iraqi militia actions afterward suggest that the attack came from Iraq.Northern Gaza Strip: …

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• 31 January

  Iran To Equip Hovercrafts With Long-Range Missiles

  

  The Iranian Navy is going to furnish its new hovercrafts with long-range missiles, the commander of the force said. In remarks on Saturday, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said the Iranian Navy’s fleets of vessels, submarines and aerial vehicles have been renovated by reliance on domestic capabilities. He noted that a …

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• 31 January

  Houthis Accuse US, UK Of Targeting Ras Isa Oil Terminal In Hodeidah

  

  Yemen’s Houthi militia said on Saturday that the US and UK militaries carried out two airstrikes on the Red Sea Ras Isa port in Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah. This comes as Trafigura, an international trading corporation, said that it had extinguished a fire on one of its ships in …

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• 31 January

  The United States Is A Colonial Empire, And An Extremely Successful One – Analysis

  

  For those who remember their high school textbooks, the issue of America’s imperial history is very clear cut. American imperialism, the textbooks told us, was that fairly brief period in American history that lasted from 1898 to 1945. This was the period during which the United States acquired a number …

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• 31 January

  ‘Black Hawk Down’ For Biden In The Red Sea – OpEd

  

  The news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea (Friday, 26 Jan.) underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory” beyond hoping that the mere presence of US warships …

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• 31 January

  German intelligence failed to persuade Hezbollah to stop operations against Israel: Report

  

  Hezbollah has maintained that it will continue fighting unless the war in Gaza is brought to an end Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on 27 January that a recent meeting between the deputy director of German intelligence and a top Hezbollah official failed to convince Lebanon’s resistance to end its operations …

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• 31 January

  Iraqi resistance dismisses US withdrawal talks, vows more attacks

  

  US officials say a withdrawal from Iraq and Syria is not imminent despite new talks about their status with the Iraqi government The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) criticized the US request to hold talks with the Iraqi government regarding the presence of US forces in the country, describing them …

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• 31 January

  Iraqi Kurdistan pays a deadly price for hosting the Mossad

  

  Israel’s notorious intelligence agency has spent decades infiltrating and sabotaging Arab states. But it has hit a wall in Iraq, a country that hosts the Axis of Resistance and is prepared to fight back hard. Just before midnight on 15 January, Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, was rocked by …

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• 31 January

  How Gaza is impacting the Great Power standoff

  

  While China-led multipolarity has accelerated the decline of the American era, the war in Gaza may end it altogether. What is unfolding today in West Asia — the Gaza war and its regional expansion — cannot be viewed separately from the international transformations that have grown in momentum over the …

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• 31 January

  How Yemen’s ‘asabiyya’ is reshaping geopolitics

  

  The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the genocide …

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