Capitulation in Vienna: New Iran deal called disastrous for U.S. security

Capitulation in Vienna: New Iran deal called disastrous for U.S. security

FPI / March 17, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com The Biden administration is on the verge of agreeing to a revived nuclear deal with Iran that would be disastrous for U.S. national security, officials and analysts are saying. Team Biden, led by chief negotiator Robert Malley, has said it will lift sanctions on some of Iran’s worst terrorists […]

First things first: Putin is actually mediating Iran talks on behalf of Team Biden

First things first: Putin is actually mediating Iran talks on behalf of Team Biden

by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2022 Vladimir Putin’s regime is not only being allowed to mediate negotiations on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, but says it has received “written guarantees” from Team Biden that Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine will not affect cooperation with Iran within the framework of the 2015 […]

Report: Team Biden to lift sanctions on Iran’s most brutal human rights abusers

Report: Team Biden to lift sanctions on Iran’s most brutal human rights abusers

by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2022 In its dogged pursuit of a new nuclear deal with Iran, Team Biden is lifting sanctions on several Iranian officials, including some of the world’s worst human rights abusers, a report said. The deal, which is close to being finalized during negotiations in Vienna, would lift sanctions on President […]

Looming Putin-brokered Iran nuclear deal tied to Israel PM’s urgent weekend diplomacy

Looming Putin-brokered Iran nuclear deal tied to Israel PM’s urgent weekend diplomacy

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2022 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday held talks with both Russian leader Vladimir Putin Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a nearly three-hour conversation with Putin at the Kremlin, Bennett reportedly asked the Russian strongman to ensure the safety of Ukraine’s Jewish population and […]

Jill Biden, Pope Francis ‘ate up bandwidth’ for Afghanistan evacuation’s ‘stressed resources’

Jill Biden, Pope Francis ‘ate up bandwidth’ for Afghanistan evacuation’s ‘stressed resources’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 11, 2022 Calls from Jill Biden and Pope Francis for special favors to get certain people out of the chaos enveloping Afghanistan made a bad situation worse, according to the commander of U.S. troops in charge of the evacuation of Kabul. Rear Adm. Peter Vasely “said the Pentagon was being pulled […]

Centcom commander: ‘We should expect a resurgent ISIS’

Centcom commander: ‘We should expect a resurgent ISIS’

FPI / February 2, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct After being effectively wiped out during the administration of President Donald Trump, the Islamic State (ISIS) has reportedly regrouped and has launched several attacks since the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said it’s not yet clear how strongly the […]

Appeasing the mullahs: Biden, South Korea help Iran pay its dues at the United Nations

Appeasing the mullahs: Biden, South Korea help Iran pay its dues at the United Nations

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2022 Sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration were so devastating that the mullahs in Teheran were unable to pay dues owed to the United Nations. As a consequence, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism lost its voting rights at the UN. Was this not a victory […]

Latest North Korean missile test registers on Israel’s radar screen

Latest North Korean missile test registers on Israel’s radar screen

FPI / January 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct If North Korea indeed was successful in a second test of a hypersonic missile, Israel and its ally the United States should be highly concerned the technology could make its way to Iran, an analyst said. “Russia has since 2019 been bragging that its hypersonic missiles give it an […]

Kazakhstan: This is what a real insurrection looks like

Kazakhstan: This is what a real insurrection looks like

by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2022 The president of Kazakhstan issued a shoot-to-kill order after citizens protesting the government’s lifting its price cap on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) rioted in the streets of the nation’s largest city Almaty and reportedly began rounding up government security forces. Russia reportedly sent in some 2,500 troops at the […]

Looking ahead at 2022: U.S. surrender in Afghanistan still making geopolitical waves

Looking ahead at 2022: U.S. surrender in Afghanistan still making geopolitical waves

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The political reverberations following America’s Afghanistan pullout debacle still shake the geopolitical landscape from Ukraine to the Taiwan Straits. But shall pending military calculations in Moscow and Beijing take advantage of a perceived power vacuum in the wake of the Afghan fiasco or will diplomacy deflect the sword […]

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