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TTCT – Mối quan hệ giữa Iran và các nước láng giềng của họ ở vùng Vịnh và bán đảo A Rập là tầng tầng lớp lớp các yếu tố văn hóa, lịch sử, và tôn giáo, đã đảo lộn vì những can thiệp của phương Tây trong khoảng 150 năm qua.
Cuộc chiến do Mỹ và Israel phát động chỉ là diễn biến mới nhất trong quá trình đó mà thôi.
Tiếp tục đọc “Quan hệ Iran và các nước A Rập: Muôn mối tơ vò”The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (Operation Countenance) occurred in August 1941, during World War II.
The invasion was carried out jointly by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, aiming primarily to secure Iranian territory against Axis influence and protect critical supply routes.
Here’s a comprehensive overview:
Lead-Up and Reasons
Strategic Importance:
Iranian Position and Axis Influence:
Diplomatic Tensions:
Date and Execution:
Began on August 25, 1941, when British forces advanced from the south and west, while Soviet forces attacked from the north.
Rapid military operations overwhelmed Iran’s defenses, which were relatively weak and poorly equipped compared to the invading powers.
Key Events:
Iranian Response: The Iranian army, despite fighting briefly in several locations, was rapidly overwhelmed, with significant casualties but limited overall resistance.
Tehran quickly realized the futility of resistance and began negotiations.
Tiếp tục đọc “Watch The British-Soviet Invasion of Iran (1941)”
thebulletin.org By Victor Gilinsky, Leonard Weiss | March 21, 2025
Israeli space launch vehicle Shavit sends a military intelligence satellite into space in March 2023. The same Shavit rocket can launch ballistic missiles, including the nuclear-capable, three-stage Jericho III intermediate-range ballistic missile. The Jericho III reportedly has a range exceeding 4,000 kilometers, enough to reach all of Iran, Pakistan, Europe, and western Russia. Israel has not acknowledged the existence of its nuclear weapon arsenal despite being widely known. (Credit: Israel Defense Ministry)Share
An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons. It takes for granted what anyone who pays attention has known for years. But the series goes well beyond a general discussion about Israel’s nuclear weapons. It shows the country’s single-minded determination to get the bomb no matter what it took, including stealing nuclear explosives and bomb components from the United States and violating a major nuclear arms control treaty to which Israel is a party—and lying about it.
Tiếp tục đọc “The US hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop”
SÁNG ÁNH – 29/12/2024 07:55 GMT+7
TTCT – Sau biến cố 7-10-2023 ở Israel, tại khu vực Trung Đông, vấn đề chính năm qua vẫn là xoay quanh Palestine.
Ảnh: The New Arab
Chuyện này không có gì mới, nhưng cường độ của vấn đề ở mức cao nhất từ hơn 100 năm qua, tức từ ngày xuất hiện phong trào Zion chủ nghĩa vào cuối thế kỷ 19.
Nhắc lại, đây là phong trào thế tục sanh ra tại Âu châu, nơi người theo đạo và văn hóa Do Thái từng bị 1.000 năm phân biệt, chèn ép, bài xích, đưa đến xua đuổi, trục xuất và tiêu diệt.
Giải pháp của Zion chủ nghĩa không phải là tranh đấu và đòi quyền bình đẳng sinh sống tại các nước Âu Tây, nơi họ có bấy nhiêu thế kỷ hiện diện, mà là lập một quốc gia riêng biệt.
Như vậy, Israel ra đời năm 1948 là vì người Do Thái bị Âu châu bạc đãi và trù dập. Hoàn cảnh lịch sử với ngày tàn của đế quốc Ottoman, thất trận của đế quốc Đức, rồi Đức quốc xã, khiến họ trở thành đồng minh đắc lực của Tây phương trong khu vực.
Như ngoại trưởng Mỹ Alexander Haig nói 35 năm trước: “Israel là tàu sân bay lớn nhất thế giới của Mỹ mà không thể bị đánh chìm, (lại) không cần đến một người lính Mỹ và ở tại vị trí then chốt cho an ninh Mỹ”.
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Published: December 8, 2024 4.56pm GMT
End of a half-century of family rule.
A damaged portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs in the Syrian city of Qamishli. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images
Sefa Secen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
We believe in the free flow of informationThe brutal 54-year reign of the Assad family in Syria looks to be over.
In a matter of days, opposition forces took the major city of Aleppo before advancing southward into other government-controlled areas of Hama, Homs and finally, on Dec 7, 2024, the capital, Damascus.
Tiếp tục đọc “Assad leaves behind a fragmented nation – stabilizing Syria will be a major challenge for fractured opposition and external backers”CNA Insider – 29-11-2024
For decades, the Middle East has been a central focus of US foreign policy. But today, America is scaling down its involvement in one of the world’s most volatile regions.
Vying to fill the vacuum are China and India. Billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure projects from Asia have moved to the Middle East. Cross border investment from the region to Asia has also gained momentum. The region is counting on trade with China and India for its post-oil future. At the same time, the gulf countries are strategically important to the superpowers. For example, China and India are looking to expand military cooperation with Oman.
With the war in Gaza and the spreading Lebanon conflict, the Middle East is leaning even further away from the American pole. How will the pivot to Asia change the dynamics of the region?
Tiếp tục đọc “How China, India and war are reshaping the Middle East”
Published: The Conversation, October 10, 2023 7.16pm BST Updated: October 12, 2023 4.17pm BST
Maha Nassar does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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The focus on conflict in the Middle East has again returned to the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s defense minister ordering a “complete siege” of the Palestinian enclave.
Tiếp tục đọc “The Gaza Strip − why the history of the densely populated enclave is key to understanding the current conflict”
The mission of the U.S. Navy has for centuries been to keep the sea lines of communication open, but the United States is abandoning that task in the Middle East today.
Blog Post by Elliott Abrams, CFR
August 31, 2024 10:45 am (EST)
A recent article in the Telegraph newspaper in London by former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe was entitled “The Houthis Have Defeated the U.S. Navy.” If that is not correct, it is only because the U.S. Navy has been ordered not to fight. Tiếp tục đọc ““The Houthis Have Defeated the U.S. Navy,” or, What is a Navy For?”
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| In Tehran. Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times |
To understand the current confrontation between Iran and Israel, it helps to think about three recent phases of Middle East geopolitics.
Phase 1: Before Oct. 7 of last year, Iran was arguably the most isolated power in the region. The Biden administration was growing closer to Saudi Arabia, Iran’s biggest rival for power. Israel, Iran’s longtime enemy, had signed a diplomatic deal during the Trump administration with Bahrain, Morocco and the U.A.E. Iran, for its part, was financing a network of extremist groups such as Hamas and the Houthis.
Tiếp tục đọc “An uneasy Arab-Israeli alliance”CNA Insider – 28-3-2024
Over the last twenty years, China’s influence in the Middle East has grown substantially. China has major economic partnerships with Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and also Israel.
How is the war in Gaza impacting these investments? Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas? And how do the current events in the Middle East impact great power competition between the United States and China? Tiếp tục đọc “China’s role in the Middle East: Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas?”
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Published 12:40 AM EST, Fri January 5, 2024
A picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment on January 4, 2024, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.Jack Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN —
Anxiety mounts every day that a full-scale Middle East war could erupt from the flames of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
“We feel and we’re afraid of it,” Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week. “We don’t want any escalation in the war. … We don’t like a regional war because it’s dangerous to everybody. Dangerous to Lebanon, dangerous to Israel and to the countries surrounding Israel,” he said, adding, “A regional war is bad for everybody.”
Tiếp tục đọc “A widened Middle East war would be a disaster, but it can still be avoided”Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s tentative proposal needs Western backers.
By Justin Ling, a journalist based in Toronto. FP
NOVEMBER 9, 2023, 4:30 PM
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has a plan for peace in Gaza and Israel. If it has any hope of becoming reality, he’ll need Western backers. Thus far, he doesn’t have any.
It’s time for Western leaders to step up.
As the death toll in Gaza grows, now over 10,000, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has been trying to win allies for his three-step peace plan. First, Mikati proposes, would come a five-day pause in hostilities, during which Hamas would release some of its Israeli hostages and Israel would open its border crossings to more humanitarian aid. If the peace can hold for those 120 hours, negotiations would begin for the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for prisoners held by Israel. As that happens, work on an international summit for a permanent two-state solution would begin.
If it can get off the ground, Mikati’s proposal would channel the worst violence Israelis and Palestinians have seen in decades into the most serious peace effort since the collapse of the Oslo Accords.
Tiếp tục đọc “Lebanon’s Half-Formed Peace Plan May Be Gaza’s Best Chance”
European and Asian allies of the United States increasingly doubt Washington’s ability to simultaneously help Israel and Ukraine – Bloomberg writes, citing sources.
The United States was confident in the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab countries, so it moved resources from the Middle East to direct them to fight Russia or China, and is now forced to ask Tel Aviv to postpone the operation in the Gaza Strip in order to increase its forces in the region, the agency writes .
At the same time, Ukraine has exhausted its reserves of artillery shells from the United States and its allies, and attempts to increase ammunition production are facing various obstacles.
Tiếp tục đọc “Allies Fear US Is Overextended as Global Conflicts Spread”CNN.com By Alaa Elassar, CNN Updated 11:38 AM EDT, Mon October 23, 2023
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Jewish peace activists staged a sit-in on Capitol Hill, where they called for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war on October 18.Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockCNN —
As Rabbi Alissa Wise scrolls through social media, her feed is littered with videos of dead Palestinian children, parents holding their lifeless bodies with screams caught in their throats and eyes sunken with grief.
Like millions around the world, she has been haunted by the gruesome scenes flooding out of Gaza, where civilians have endured more than two weeks of an Israeli siege and bombing campaign that has collapsed homes, destroyed vital infrastructure and sparked a humanitarian crisis.
The airstrikes have killed more than 4,600 Palestinians so far, including an estimated 1,900 children, and wounded at least 14,000 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. Another 1.4 million people have been internally displaced, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
Tiếp tục đọc “‘Not in our name’: Jewish peace activists across the US call for immediate ceasefire and justice for Palestinians”
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