AMID TENSIONS WITH IRAN, U.S. TO WITHDRAW EMBASSY PERSONNEL ON TEMPORARY BASIS

Highlights

• This withdrawal would take place in the lead-up to the January 3 anniversary of the US' killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani because of concerns about retaliations 

• It is being said that the US government is expecting possible retaliatio...

SOLEIMANI’S KILLING BY TRUMP COSTS HIM AN ARREST WARRANT BY IRAN

Highlights: 

• Soleimani was killed in the early morning of January 2020
• The killing of Soleimani led to aggravated tensions in-between the US and Iran 

On January 3 2020, just before the pandemic spread to the rest of the world, Trump approv...

Pompeo Visits Saudi: Iran on Agenda.

After the visit to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, the US Secretary of State Mike has arrived in Riyadh to meet King Salman, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan. Pompeo said that during his visit, threats posed by Iran to American troops in the region a...

‘Inhuman’ treatment by the US condemned by Iran

After reports of the deportation of a student despite having a valid visa, Iran condemned what it called the "illegal and inhumane" treatment by US border officials of its nationals on Saturday.

Speaker Abbas Mousavi, of the Foreign Ministry, claimed that "all completely ...

Japan's role in international politics is better than ever

Over the past 30 years spanning the previous Heisei era (1989-2019), Japan's position in international politics has been strengthened by leaps and bounds. When this nation was a reviving economic powerhouse on all cylinders three decades ago, it was called the United States as an "only e...

The assassination of Qassem Soleimani represents a milestone in Middle East politics

Only after the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the second most influential figure for the Iranian regime, represents a milestone in Middle East politics in many ways. Soleimani was not a regular military commander or official, but the man carrying out...

US and Iran: A feud of 4 decades

Location: Bagdad Airport

Plan of action: Assassination

Target: Qassem Soleimani, Iranian major general

3rd January will go down in the history of Iran as a black day. Assassination of Qassem Suleimani will forever be marked as the day that the Americ...

YEN ON A SPIN AFTER IRAN STRIKE ON US

The Japanese Yen is marked at three-month high, today. The currency jumped immediately after the news of Iranian missiles strikes on US troops in Iraq. The airstrike today came hours after the General’s funeral. 

More than a dozen ballistic missiles were fired from Iranian te...

US MARKET FELL WITH ESCALATING MIDDLE EAST TENSIONS

The US stock market has seen a fall while closing on Tuesday, 7th January 2020. This is speculated as to the effect of geopolitical tensions between Iran and the US. There is a possibility of war in the Middle East after Iran fired a series of Iraqi airbase that hosts American Troops.

A...

OIL PRICES PARE GAINS AFTER IRAN MISSILE ATTACK

Oil prices have fallen for the first in this year. US stock market futures also fell on Tuesday after Iran fired multiple missiles at an airbase in Iraq consisting of American troops. This can be marked as an attempt by Iran to avenge the killing of Iranian commander, Qassem Soleimani. He was kil...

Insight to the Baghdad Air Strike

Missiles launched by a USAF MQ9 Reaper slammed into a convoy leaving Baghdad International Airport in the early hours of January 3, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of an Iraqi militia. General Soleimani was the prestigious Quds Force comm...

Soleimani's ominous murder

The third day is 2020, the United States. The Defense Department reported that General Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force Commander, was assassinated. Few Tokyo tended to bother themselves with his murder while the country celebrated its first festival in Reiwa's new era.

The ...

Soleimani was a famous Iranian soldier, killed in the Middle East

Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of the Quds Revolutionary Guards elite, supported Iran with inspiring battlefield militias and negotiating with political leaders to fight proxy wars across the Middle East.

He died on Friday in the airstrike on the Baghdad airpo...

Oil prices increased above 2% amidst tension in Middle East

On Sunday, oil prices increased above 2% as pressures in the Middle East escalated over the weekend.

Futures raised above $70 a barrel in London as the U.S. State Department stated, there is risk of missile attacks in neighboring military bases and energy facilities in Saudi A...