“SAUDI ARABIA MAY be this country’s top arms customer, but we are not their protector and our military forces are not their mercenaries”:
- The US Shouldn’t Take Military Action Against Iran (The Boston Globe)
“[A]s the US draws back from the Middle East, the countries of the region are increasingly getting caught up in risky foreign interventions” …
… and even as he defends his Syrian withdrawal, “Trump has endorsed the idea of sanctioning Turkey for its attack on the primarily-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, which allied with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS”:
Iran government spokesman Ali Rabei has said Tehran is `avoiding haste, carefully examining what has happened and probing facts’ into the apparent attack on one of its tankers in the Red Sea on October 11″ …
- Iran Says It Will Respond to ‘Cowardly Attack’ on Tanker (Lloyd’s List)
… as Pakistan PM Imran Khan in a mission to mitigate tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia …
… and “the UAE itself has never pointed the finger of blame at Iran for [the attack on Saudi oil industry]. Instead, it sent navy officers to meet their counterparts in Iran”:
- UAE’s Secret Mission to Iran (Middle East Eye)
After 70 days incommunicado, Kashmiris get partial relief, but not for Internet, VOIP, landline, or prepaid phone services:
- Postpaid Mobile Phone Services Restored in Kashmir 72 Days After Lockdown, Internet Still Off (India Today)
“Iran has realised that its inefficient and corrupt managers endanger the political system more than foreign enemies do”:
- Iran: Hardliners’ Anti-graft Drive Masks Wider Goals (Financial Times)
British Museum highlights the East-West cultural exchange and the Islamic influence in European culture:
A Mossad official was quoted saying that assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was “Not impossible”:
- Loose Lips? Mossad Denies Its Chief Gave an Interview on Iran, Killings, Ambitions (The Times of Israel)
US steps up trade pressure on China over Uighur oppression:
“Israeli police … in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood … were caught on camera complaining that there was no purpose to an ongoing police operation … other than deliberately provoking … residents” …
- Provoking Jerusalem’s Palestinians ‘For Nothing’: Cop’s Recording Sheds Light on ‘Screwed Up’ Policy (Haaretz)
… yet, “President Donald Trump’s civil rights chief in the Department of Education, Kenneth L Marcus, it seems, is now leading a campaign to make all US universities Israel-friendly”:
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