Op-Ed

By: Omid Shokri Kalehsar

Effects of US sanctions on Iran’s natural gas projects

TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) – Iran holds the second largest natural gas reserves in the world. Despite this advantage, the country controls less than one percent of the world’s natural gas market. Nevertheless, Iran is the third largest gas producer and, over the past few years, has focused on increasing its share of the global gas market. By the end of 2017, according to the National Iranian Gas Company, Iran was producing 800 million cubic meters per day.

By: Hanif Ghafari

Will there be another referendum over Brexit?

TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) – Brexit continues to be an implicit term in the Britain’s political equations. Complicating the process of the British withdrawal from the European Union is a joint measure taken by the British government and European authorities.

By: Mohammad Ghaderi

Tel Aviv’s ‘northern shield’ operation’s objective in Lebanon border

TEHRAN, Dec. 07 (MNA) – As the Zionists fear of Lebanese Hezbollah's power increases day by day, they make military drills to practice the real battle with the Lebanese resistance’s group. On December 4, 2018, Zionists launched an operation dubbed “Northern Shield” to discover the Hezbollah cross-border tunnels.

By: Mohammad Ghaderi

West return to 2007: Europe's anger over incompetent politicians

TEHRAN, Dec. 07 (MNA) – The anger and discontent of European citizens over European politicians is increasing day by day. While more than ten years have passed since the economic crisis in Europe, we are still witnessing austerity plans in this block.

By: Hanif Ghafari

The G20 fruitless summit

TEHRAN, Dec. 05 (MNA) – The 2018 G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, was the thirteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20), which was held on 30 November and 1 December 2018 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The main question about the "philosophy of holding the G20 Summit" and the "outcome of this meeting" remains unanswered!

By: Syed Zafar Mehdi

US propaganda war against Iran doomed to failure

TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) – At a time when the Trump administration is facing backlash at home over its military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and disgraceful defeat in Afghanistan after 18 years of war, spin doctors in Washington are looking for convenient scapegoats to escape accountability.

By: Abdollah Shahbazi

Trenches in Champs Elysées, from “Paris Commune” to “Gilet jaune”

TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) – France is the leader of the contemporary revolutions, so long as the term “revolution”, in its new meaning, came to political culture largely through the successive French revolutions of the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century.

By: Ramin Hossein Abadian

Syria's important message to the Zionists: The end of hit and run era

TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) – The Israeli military once again attacked the Syrian territory on 30 November 2018. Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying that “Air defense intercepted hostile targets over al-Kiswah and downed them,” and that “the Israeli attack did not achieve its goals.”

By: Hanif Ghaffari

Bernie Sanders's hammer on the Trump's head

TEHRAN, Dec. 03 (MNA) – Bernie Sanders, the old American senator, and one of Democratic nominees for the 2016 presidential election, continues to oppose US President Donald Trump. This confrontation started at the time Trump entered the White House (by early 2017).

By: Ghazal Golzar

Gaza War aftershocks for Zionist Regime

TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) – The two-day Gaza war aftershocks are still there for the Zionist regime. This has now become a political challenge for the Zionists.

By: Saied Sobhani

Demonic Bin Salman in Buenos Aires

TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) – Buenos Aires hosted the 2018 G20 summit on Friday while the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi national journalist who was horrifically murdered in the Saudi embassy in Turkey, was expected to have an impact on the assembly.

By: Syed Zafar Mehdi

Kartarpur project: Imran Khan's diplomatic masterstroke

TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) – At a time when sabre-rattling between the two South Asian estranged neighbors has escalated to alarming proportions, Pakistan has quite remarkably managed to score a big diplomatic victory over India with the Kartarpur Corridor project.

By: Sajjad Shukat, Pakistani analyst

Husain Haqqani: part of anti-Pakistan propaganda

TEHRAN, Dec. 01 (MNA) – It is regrettable that some internal elements of the country also support the external enemies of Pakistan. In this respect, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani has also become the part of the anti-Pakistan Propaganda.

By: Hanif Ghaffari

Will Clinton have the EU's support?

TEHRAN, Dec. 01 (MNA) – In her recent remarks, the US defeated candidate in the 2016 presidential elections pointed to the current challenges in Europe and tried to take a stance accordingly! Hillary Clinton, who spoke briefly of her possible presence in the 2020 presidential elections before, warned against the raise of nationalism in Europe, while praising Angela Merkel's policies toward immigrants.

By: Mohammad Ghaderi

France's unrestful days with Macron

TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) – French President Emmanuel Macron is going through hard times. On the one hand, Macron's popularity with the French citizens has drastically fallen during recent months, and the continuation of public protests in different cities of France has created a difficult situation for the young French president.

By: Martin Love

Bold counter moves even if naïve are worth marginal examination at least

TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) – President Rouhani and other leaders in Iran have lately been appealing for unity among all Muslims to counter the threats posed by the Israelis and the US and the Saudis to sow yet more chaos in the Middle East. No one can argue against the idea of such unity, but aside from a few discrete periods in Islamic history the effective unity of the “ummah” has been and seems to remain a chimera, a least when viewed from any purely political angle.

By: Hanif Ghaffari

Trump’s challenge on defending Bin Salman

TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) – Many US sources have recently condemned the position taken by President Donald Trump on Khashoggi’s murder by Mohammad bin Salman, calling for a White House appeal against the Saudi Crown Prince.

By: Syed Zafar Mehdi

From Palestine to Rohingya; talking points at Islamic Unity Conference

TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) – During the three-day International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran this week, many brainstorming discussions were held as part of various commissions on some of the most pressing and significant issues facing the Muslim world today.

By: Ramin Hossein Abadian

Palestinian boosting resistance; what did Zionists say about defeat?

TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) – The defeat of Israeli forces by the Islamic resistance groups in the Gaza strip has recorded a new setback in the Zionist blackmail report on the war on Gaza.

By: Asif Durrani, former Pakistan amb. to Iran

Mr. Trump, you don’t know anything about Afghanistan!

TEHRAN, Nov. 26 (MNA) – The sooner the US heads towards reconciliation without encouraging warlords, the sooner the tone for the future contours of a stable and prosperous Afghanistan will be set. And for that, the American president has to be on top of his brief about Afghanistan. Right now, you don’t know anything about Afghanistan, Mr. Trump.