What is it about EV batteries? Blast at customs warehouse felt 20 miles away; 163 injured

What is it about EV batteries? Blast at customs warehouse felt 20 miles away; 163 injured

by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2023 A 15-year-old boy was killed and 163 people were injured in a massive explosion in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Thursday which reports say was triggered by detonating electric car batteries. More than 20 people had to be hospitalized, the Uzbek health ministry said. At least five children suffered wounds from […]

Saudi Arabia, Iran among six nations invited to join anti-Western BRICS alliance

Saudi Arabia, Iran among six nations invited to join anti-Western BRICS alliance

by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2023 Saudi Arabia and Iran are among six countries invited to join BRICS as new members next year. The trading bloc BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has openly stated its desire to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. With the exception […]

Iran deal proceeds without Congressional oversight during August recess

Iran deal proceeds without Congressional oversight during August recess

FPI / August 23, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct The Biden Administration appears to have successfully circumvented Congressional oversight in approving the release of billions in funds for Iran in a mid-August prisoner-exchange deal. “That the White House announced this deal during the August congressional recess was no coincidence. Emergency hearings cannot be held. Resolutions of disapproval cannot […]

Totalitarian prosecutions in the last 3 years: Georgia, Cuba, Turkey

Totalitarian prosecutions in the last 3 years: Georgia, Cuba, Turkey

by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2023 With the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 of his associates, Georgia joins an ignoble club of heavy handed prosecutions in which members of political opposition are subjected to mass trials while being accorded few rights, an analysis said. “At a press conference near midnight on Monday, […]

Deep State election interference? Paid protesters in Israel called part of a U.S.-backed global pattern

Deep State election interference? Paid protesters in Israel called part of a U.S.-backed global pattern

by WorldTribune Staff, July 27, 2023 A protest movement in Israel against judicial reform legislation aims to ultimately bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And it is following the Washington, D.C. Deep State playbook page for page, analysts say. “The vast majority of protesters are paid, with the minimum salary of close to $100 per […]

Iran leader in Africa warns homosexuality will eliminate ‘generation of human beings’

Iran leader in Africa warns homosexuality will eliminate ‘generation of human beings’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2023 The West through its promotion of homosexuality is endangering a “generation of human beings,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said during a state visit to Uganda earlier this month. Raisi’s July 12 visit was part of his whirlwind tour of African countries including Kenya and Zimbabwe. It also came after […]

Team Biden finds it needs Abraham Accords after all; Its Iran deal alienates all sides

Team Biden finds it needs Abraham Accords after all; Its Iran deal alienates all sides

FPI / June 28, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump scored a major foreign policy triumph in bringing Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco into a joint normalization agreement known as the Abraham Accords. But, as with many tenets of the previous administration’s foreign policy, the Biden administration has shown little interest in maintaining […]

Iran dictator completes tour of anti-U.S. axis: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Iran dictator completes tour of anti-U.S. axis: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2023 Iranian President President Ebrahim Raisi concluded a Latin American trip on June 16 by saying the Islamic Republic’s ties to the communist states he visited, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, are not a “normal but rather a strategic” relationship against foreign interference. “Iran has just finalized a tour across Latin […]

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, June 16, 2023 Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Russia’s inchoate, […]

The rogue state strategic alliance to watch: North Korea-Iran

The rogue state strategic alliance to watch: North Korea-Iran

FPI / May 31, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct There is nothing new about the secret strategic partnership between Iran and North Korea. For 40 years, the two isolated states have been cooperating on missile technology. Every step of the way, they have defied international sanctions while building two of the most threatening missile programs on the planet. […]

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