Day: April 20, 2020

Iran: US forces provoked us in the Persian Gulf

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Revolutionary Guard acknowledges tense encounter with US warships in Persian Gulf, but claims American forces sparked the incident. Elad Benari , 20/04/20 05:56 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Sunday acknowledged it had a tense encounter with US warships in the Persian Gulf last week, but also claimed that it was American forces who sparked the incident, […]

Hezbollah in crisis, but Israel cannot take its eyes off it

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“Hezbollah also has faces and names. It’s not a demon that comes out of the ground, for whom the people are also dear. Wounded and dead are extremely difficult for them.” Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of the Hezbollah Executive Council, pays his condolences to Ali Badreddine, the son of top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine who […]

Likud, Blue & White unity meeting ends with no breakthrough

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Blue & White is said to be pushing for a reshuffle of the judicial appointments panel, in the latest move to pressure PM into signing coalition deal; former party #3 Ya’alon says he won’t support anti-Netanyahu legislation Moran Azulay Published: 04.20.20 , 10:36 A meeting between Blue & White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister […]

Oil price truce: The Russia-Saudi standoff is over. But at what cost?

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The Saudi-initiated oil price war that devastated the global industry for five weeks was the result of Russian and Saudi miscalculations that created such animosity that the very survival of their energy and geopolitical partnership was at stake.        Russia had no clue that the Saudi reaction to its refusal to participate in a new OPEC+ output-cut agreement set for 6 […]