by John M. Curtis | Feb 28, 2021
Playing hardball with P5+1, Iran rejected the idea of meeting informally to discus how to restart the July 15, 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], after former president Donald Trump cancelled U.S. involvement May 8, 2018. Iran plays games as usual, the...
by John M. Curtis | Feb 28, 2021
Complicating 78-year-old Joe Biden’s diplomacy with Iran, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz reported today the Israeli ship MV Helios Ray was struck with two explosions tearing two holes in the hull in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s 81-year-old Supreme Leader...
by John M. Curtis | Feb 28, 2021
Western powers’ dissident pro-democracy hero 44-year-old Alexi Navalny was transferred to a penal colony 100 kilometers [62 miles] from Moscow to serve out his Feb. 2 sentence for violating probation on an embezzlement charge, Navalny claims is phony. Whatever the...
by John M. Curtis | Feb 27, 2021
Sanction-mania has now swept over the Democrat-controlled House, Senate and White House, putting U.S. national security in peril, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) pushing 78-year-old President Joe Biden to sanction 35-year-old Saudi...
by John M. Curtis | Feb 26, 2021
Nearly two-and-a-half-years since Washington Post contributor and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi was assassinate in Istanbul’s Saudi embassy Oct. 2, 2018, U.S. intelligence agencies declassify an intelligence report for public consumption blaming 35-year-old Crown...