It tells you something when an American president talks openly about his unsuccessful attempts to persuade another country to do what he wishes. But that’s what happened yesterday during President Trump’s unscripted speech to supporters in Mississippi. Trump referred to…
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Has Saudi Arabia dumped Trump?
President Trump with King Salman during his visit to Riyadh in May 2017 Confounding some forecasts, the Opec-non-Opec market monitoring meeting in Algeria yesterday made no recommendation for output to be lifted to offset a new price surge and suggestions…
Moscow, oil and the Middle East game of nations 2018
Russia backs Iran and Syria but is doing deals with Israel and Saudi Arabia Oil is the key in critical Middle East developments this May. After meeting Syria’s President Asad in Sochi on 17 May, Russian President Putin said that…
Trump’s Jerusalem statement is due to growing US energy independence, top energy department official says
Dan Brouillette. Credit: Washington Examiner Deputy US energy secretary Dan Brouillette has said in an interview published yesterday that President Trump’s announcement that the US will recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is evidence that policies designed to reduce dependence on…
Trump to preserve JCPOA
President Trump will keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and target the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in a new White House policy announced today. The announcement will please allies concerned that the president would pull the US…
2016: the year history ended again and the world became multipolar once more
The Soviet Union was dissolved on 26 December 1991 The red flag over the Kremlin was replaced with the pre-1917 Tsarist one. It was the end of the Soviet challenge which shaped most of the 20th century. A year…
Arab leaders hope Trump will make their new year wishes come true
Reviled by Western liberals and dismissed by foreign policy specialists, Donald Trump is being viewed with favour by leaders of the Arab world’s most powerful nations. In an interview with the The Financial Times published today, Egypt’s President El-Sisi welcomed Trump’s…
US expert calls for dialogue about Iran’s missile programme
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED The US should respond to Iran’s claim it doesn’t need missiles with a range greater than 2,000km and seek to codify that limit as part of a multi-track approach to containing…
Iran has got $3bn not $55bn in frozen assets
John Kerry during his May visit to London in which he met non-US banks Only $3bn of $55bn of Iran’s frozen assets have been returned so far and European and Asian banks continue to be reluctant to deal with Iranian counterparts,…
Iran near to complying with nuclear deal
Iran is close to complying with all the conditions in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed with the US, China, Russia, France, the UK and Germany, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today. “We are days away…