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Why Biden’s Sanctions on West Bank Settlers Could Escalate Into Total Cutoff of Arms Aid to Israel

 February 8, 2024 |  News

Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday leveling sanctions against four Israeli settlers accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after weeks of warnings to Tel Aviv. Sputnik asked a pair of leading observers of regional politics what the unprecedented move will mean for US-Israeli relations going forward.

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October 4th, 2024

France24 – ‘Fissure points: Iran’s large dissenting voice challenges official narrative of fighting US, Israel’

Nearly a year after Palestinian militant group Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel in its history on October 7, […]
July 16th, 2024

TRT – Masoud Pezeshkian is elected as Iran’s next President

Masoud Pezeshkian is a reformist politician who has been a member of parliament since 2008 and served as the deputy […]
June 27th, 2024

Iran’s Snap Election Casts a Long Shadow Over the State

Despite pressing domestic and foreign policy issues, Iranians could stay away from the polls in record-breaking numbers in a sign […]
May 27th, 2024

Morning Wave in Busan – The Future of Iran

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash along with the foreign minister and other officials on the […]
May 23rd, 2024

TRT – Will the demise of President Raisi affect Iran’s relationship with Hamas and Hezbollah?

Shahram Akbarzadeh, professor of Middle East Politics at Deakin University, discusses the funeral of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and the […]
May 22nd, 2024

Explainer: How will Iran President Raisi’s death affect the country and ongoing Middle East tensions?

A helicopter crash on Sunday (May 19) killed Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in the mountains near the Iran-Azerbaijan border His death […]
May 20th, 2024

TRT – What’s next for Iran after the death of president Ebrahim Raisi?

Shahram Akbarzadeh, professor of Middle East Politics at Deakin University discusses the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and how […]
May 20th, 2024

France24 – Iran in shock as Raisi killed in crash

Shahram Akbarzadeh, convenor of the Middle East Forum from Deakin University, talked to France 24 about the president Raisi’s death. […]
April 23rd, 2024

Iran in the Middle East: Building Bridges or Expanding Influence?

On 22 April 2024, Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh moderated an international webinar on Iran in the Middle East. This session was […]
April 7th, 2024

Sputnik – Even With AI ‘Kill List’, Israel ‘No Closer to Achieving’ Goals Six Months Into Gaza War

“Six months after Israel launched its attack under the banner of self-defense and the stated objective of destroying Hamas, Israel […]