by Tyler | Aug 25, 2020 | Beirut, Beirut explosion, Hezbollah, Israel / Middle East, Lebanon, National Security, Trending
The German newspaper Der Spiegel published a report this weekend claiming that the ship suspected of bringing 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate to the Port of Beirut in 2013 had ties to a bank involved in laundering money for Hezbollah, the Iran-backed...
by Tyler | Aug 16, 2020 | Beirut, Belt and Road Initiative, China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel / Middle East, Lebanon, National Security, Trending, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
Analysis of the historic peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tends to focus on Iran and Turkey as the big losers. They were certainly the loudest complainers.
by Tyler | Aug 7, 2020 | Beirut, Beirut explosion, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel / Middle East, Lebanon, National Security, Politics, Trending, U.S.
The U.S. “should lift sanctions imposed against Lebanese people” following the port explosion in Beirut on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
by Tyler | Aug 5, 2020 | Beirut, Donald Trump, Hassan Diab, Israel / Middle East, Politics, Trending, White House
“This was not some kind of manufacturing explosion type of event,” he said. “This was a – seems to be, according to them. They would know better than I would. They seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind,...
