Iran

Iran feels let down by India and rightly so

Ashish Shukla - September 11, 2019

Iran has shown its hurt on India which has unilaterally stopped the import of its oil, unwilling to stand in the corner of the...

Remind US they once wanted Iran to become a nuclear power

Ashish Shukla - July 3, 2019

The United States keeps harping “on the gravest threat to world peace” if Iran is to become a nuclear state. The truth is different,...

Modi-Imran in SCO: Be ready for some tough pictures

Ashish Shukla - June 13, 2019

It would be a hectic two days for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (June 13-14). The flight detour through Oman and Iran...

Importance of being Jaishankar: Only behind Modi-Shah duo

Ashish Shukla - June 1, 2019

Not Rajnath Singh. No Nitin Gadkari. India’s third most powerful minister in the present dispensation—besides the obvious duo of Modi-Shah—is Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, a career-diplomat...

Modi and calculus behind ‘no’ on Jerusalem

Ashish Shukla - December 31, 2017

There’s been a disquiet in India’s public space over Modi government’s rejection of US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital...

Why China wants railroads in Afghanistan?

Newsbred Staff - April 24, 2016

China’s latest five-year plan makes a thrust towards connecting Afghanistan with emerging Central Asian Rail System. Trains would leave Kashgar in China for Herat...

You must doff your hat to Times of India

Newsbred Staff - March 5, 2016

Today, Times of India (March 5, 2016) has three stories on its front page: Government says no to visit by US Panel: US Commission on...

Saudis have set off a time bomb in India too

Ashish Shukla - January 5, 2016

Saudi Arabia and its cohorts breaking off diplomatic ties with Iran is pure madness and has slid the Middle East closer to a devastating...

Russia on the cusp of being a world power

Ashish Shukla - October 13, 2015

Vladimir Putin has chosen the timing of his intervention in Syria very skillfully. Through his operations in the Middle East, he has the chance...

Syria and the drumbeat of World War III

Ashish Shukla - October 11, 2015

Too many reports have emerged from the Middle East in the last few days to raise the spectre of a looming World War III. China...

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