Trump’s high pitch campaign for a better deal has steadily raised pressure on Iran. But he is prone to flattery, and has expressed desperation for a diplomatic win.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May and allied governments will work to form a new trading regime to help business continue with Iran despite the U.S. sanctions.
China's crude oil imports compared to a year earlier represents growth of about 1.2 million barrels a day, so even slower domestic demand growth can have an outsized impact on global markets.
In the pre- JCPOA period, there was a carve out for our involvement in Chabahar, on account of its contribution to facilitating trade and development effort in Afghanistan, also a declared US objective.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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