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Items by Ali Omidi
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How does the petrodollar finance and encourage the US’s bullying?
It is impossible to understand the logic of America’s exorbitant military expenditures and successive wars in various countries – from Vietnam, Iraq to Venezuela and Iran – without understanding the international monetary system. By designing a global mechanism, the United States has been able to shift the “costs of war”…
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Iran’s vision of a new legal regime in the Strait of Hormuz
In the wake of the forty-day war between Iran and the United States-Israel, no one expected that the governing legal regime of the Strait of Hormuz would undergo a fundamental transformation. Tehran’s stance, emerging from the recent war, is not be a return to the previous legal order of free…
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Why does Iran persist on nuclear enrichment?
While the third round of Iran-US talks is scheduled to be held today, 26th February, with the mediation of Oman at the country’s residence in Geneva, serious concerns have been raised about the prospect of this round of talks and the outbreak of a likely destructive war in the region.…
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The psychological consequences of the trauma of war in Gaza
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a symptom or syndrome that occurs after seeing, directly experiencing or hearing a stressful and traumatic factor (trauma) that can lead to the death of the affected person. One of its factors is a person’s direct experience of the violent death of a family member…
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What are the drivers and implications of reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have always experienced periods of tension due to different interpretations of Islam, geopolitical rivalries, differences in political systems, conflicting OPEC oil policies, political misunderstandings and their relationship with the United States and other Western countries. On 10 March this…