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The Iranian President’s visit to Turkey is postponed

In early November this year, after the visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to Ankara, the media announced that the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would be visiting Turkey in late November to meet with President Recep Erdoğan. Some sources were even more specific, claiming the visit would take place on November 28-29. But that visit did not take place – leading to suggestions that it may have been postponed. So, what can have happened in relations between Iran and Turkey over the last few weeks to cause this meeting between two key Middle Eastern countries to be cancelled or postponed?

Alexandr Svaranc

Gaza: divergences between the West and the Global South are deepening

Articles are increasingly appearing in the Arab press that characterize the war in Gaza as a kind of manifestation of the cataclysm of catastrophic capitalism. As the Al Jazeera website noted the other day, America’s war on terror through its proxy Israel can be more accurately described as America’s war against the whole world. “Gaza, as a metaphor, represents the true face of the clash of civilizations…

Vladimir Mashin

Turkey-Iran: new relations are possible

While Turkey and Iran seem to be pursuing much of the same goals and objectives with regard to the Gaza war, they are actually pursuing them in different ways. The Gaza war has shaken the fragile regional order in the Middle East, where regional powers Turkey and Iran have historically always competed for their influence over the rest of the states. Relations between Ankara and Tehran have a complicated history of ups and downs, and the two states have often been on opposite sides of the barricades in regional conflicts such as in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Caucasus. But the war in Gaza has changed…

Viktor Mikhin

Taking the Moral High Ground, Standing up for Palestinian Rights: Recep Tayyip Erdogan is telling the Israelis what they don’t want to hear!

Seth Ferris

The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip breaks down amid renewed violence

Alexandr Svaranc

Palestinian military crisis cuts Turkey's economic prospects

Alexandr Svaranc

Standing up for Principles OVER Palestine Will Get “U” Punished

Henry Kamens

Expanding Iran-Afghanistan Cordiality

Abbas Hashemite

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