Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — President Bashar Assad is said to have ordered the abduction or assassination of the Sunni rebel leadership in Lebanon and Turkey. Opposition sources said the Syrian regime has sent agents to Lebanon and Turkey to assassinate or abduct Sunni rebel leaders. They said several plots were foiled in Turkey while […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Lebanon has been threatened by the revolt in neighboring Syria. Clashes have erupted between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad in northern Lebanon. Officials said the supporters consisted of Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah operatives as well as Syrian Alawite laborers who have long lived in Lebanon. “The security of Lebanon […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — Hizbullah is using U.S. banks and other financial institutions to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal drug revenue. Officials said the revenue stems from trafficking in South America and is funneled to purchase cars in the United States for shipment to Africa. “It puts into stark relief […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Wednesday, August 3, 2011 NICOSIA — The Lebanese government, amid the decline of its Syrian mentor, has lost control over much of the country. Opposition sources said the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati has lost control over the military and security services. They said the pro-Hizbullah government has watched how Iran […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — Members of the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence have been briefed on the arrests of at least a dozen CIA operatives in Lebanon. The arrests have badly damaged U.S. monitoring of Iran and its chief proxy, Hizbullah. “It is hard to overestimate the damage,” one official said. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com JERUSALEM — Iran is working with proxies in Bahrain, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait and other countries to undermine any U.S.-led effort to destroy its nuclear weapons infrastructure. “From Iran’s standpoint, a head-on confrontation with the United States and Israel would serve its purposes in the region and build its image […]
By Fariborz Saremi, Freepressers.com The new Middle East Cold War comes complete with its own spy-versus-spy intrigues, disinformation campaign, shadowy proxy war and supercharged state rhetoric and very high stakes. There has long been blood between the Saudis and Iran. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni/Wahabi Muslim Kingdom of ethnic Arabs. Iran is a Shi’ite Islamic Republic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — The international community has been deterred from an attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, a report said. A report by a leading Israeli investment company concluded that an attack on Iran by either Israel or the United States was not feasible. Clal Finance, in a report titled “The Iranian Issue […]
By Alexander Maistrovoy, Freepressers.com Political commentaries about the events in the Middle East resemble mythological plots written by an experienced censor. Myth doesn’t need facts. It adjusts the facts to its own paradigm. And ideological mythology is not an exception. Western journalists’ commentaries on Middle East problems, give me a sense of deja vu. It feels […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah is planning for war with Israel, a report said. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs asserted that Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, in coordination with Teheran, has been meeting senior commanders to plan for war with the Jewish state. The center, in a report by Shimon Shapira, said […]