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The US vice president relied on phone calls during negotiations in Islamabad, Seyed Mohammad Marandi has told RT’s Rick Sanchez The US delegation headed by Vice President J.D. Vance lacked decision-making authority during talks with Iran earlier this month, Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, who was part of Tehran’s negotiating team, has told RT’s Sanchez Effect.Speaking with host Rick Sanchez on Monday, Marandi shared his observations of the April 11-12 negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan.”Americans did not have the authority in negotiations. Vance did not have the authority to make decisions,” Marandi said. “He was constantly on the phone, making a dozen…
The United States strenuously objected on Monday when the United Nations gave Iran a vice-presidential role in a month-long conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Assistant U.S. Secretary for the Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation Christopher Yeaw denounced the seating of Iran as a farce and an “affront” to the NPT, given that Iran has indisputably “demonstrated its contempt for non-proliferation commitments.” “Rather than choosing to use this review conference to defend the integrity of the NPT and call Iran to account, we instead elect Iran a vice president. It is beyond shameful, and an embarrassment to…
Sunday on MS NOW’s “Alex Witt Reports,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said Democrats are making the country “more safe” with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. Witt said, “Let’s take a listen together to this message that Blanche is sending to Capitol Hill, specifically today. Here it is.” On NBC, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “You saw these Secret Service agents. They were remarkable. And by the way, they’re about to, you know, the fact that DHS is not being funded after what we saw, those men, those men and women doing last night should be a wake-up call to…
House GOP leaders managed to finally clear a rule for the farm bill, a three-year FISA extension and a budget resolution for immigration enforcement spending, after a lengthy Rules Committee hearing Tuesday. But some Republicans are already threatening to tank the rule when it heads to the floor Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. — leaving a huge task for Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team as they wrangle votes. Johnson can only lose a couple of GOP votes with full attendance for the party-line rule vote. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told POLITICO Tuesday night the rule’s fate was at risk…
The UAE says its decision is driven by “national interests” as Middle East tensions disrupt energy markets The United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, has announced it will leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the wider OPEC+ on May 1. The move is seen by analysts as a serious setback for the group and its informal leader, Saudi Arabia. The decision comes amid a crisis in the Middle East triggered by the US-Israeli war against Iran, which has disrupted crude flows from the Persian Gulf. Shipments have been choked by the blockade of the…
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi’s trip underscores Iran’s push for security guarantees as diplomacy strains under US and Israeli pressure The confrontation between the US, Israel, and Iran has reached a stage where military force has failed to achieve the aggressors’ goal, and diplomacy has not yet delivered a stable way out.What Washington and West Jerusalem initially presented as a controlled campaign of pressure has turned into a strategic trap. Iran has not capitulated, its diplomatic channels have not collapsed, and the issue that the US and Israel hoped to settle through coercion has returned to the negotiating table in a…
The UAE Swaps OPEC for the Free World The United Arab Emirates announced this week that it would leave OPEC and OPEC+, effective May 1. It’s the hardest blow the cartel has ever absorbed. The UAE has been part of the cartel since 1967 and is OPEC’s third-biggest producer, one of only two members with meaningful spare capacity, and its departure removes 13 percent of the organization’s production capacity. No top-tier producer has ever walked out before. Many Americans might have missed the significance of the UAE exit because it hardly registered in financial markets. Brent crude barely flinched, which…
The Department of Justice holds a press conference to update the media on the shooting Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Monday, April 27. The shooting appears to have been a failed assassination attempt, with the suspect writing in a manifesto that he intended to target President Donald Trump and other members of his administration. The president spoke to the media on Saturday night after the dinner was canceled, calling for Americans to reconcile their differences and reject violence. Read the full article here
The UAE’s decision to withdraw from the cartel had been “a long time coming,” Obaid Ahmed Al-Zaabi believes More countries are “very likely” to withdraw from OPEC following the United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave the group, former UAE diplomat to the UN and World Trade Organization, Obaid Ahmed Al-Zaabi, told RT.The Gulf nation announced its intent to leave the cartel and broader OPEC+, which brings together OPEC members and other key oil-producing countries, on Tuesday. The withdrawal is set to come into force on May 1. The UAE’s decision has been a “long time coming,” Al-Zaabi has said, arguing that…
The U.S. Department of State sent out a travel alert warning U.S. citizens to avoid the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, following a series of blockades and attacks on police surveillance cameras. As part of the blockades, cartel gunmen stole some tractor-trailers, parked them across highways, and set them on fire. The cartel actions began on Sunday late at night, when Mexico’s military and police forces raided a house in the Vicente Guerrero neighborhood. The target of the raid was Alexander “R-9 or Metro-9” Benavidez Flores, a local leader of the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel. Authorities captured Benavidez…