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US-Iran strife is 73 years old
The US-backed overthrow of Prime Minister Mosaddegh in 1953 and the Islamic Revolution of 1979, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, were turning points in the steadily deteriorating relationship.
Is Israel signalling defeat by denying that regime change is the goal in Iran?
The US-Israeli camp’s shifting goal posts are a sign of an impending defeat. America could meet the same fate it did in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan
Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide?
By Yunping Tong/Dalia Fahmy/Conrad Hackett PEW Research Center, March 11 – Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In 2010, an estimated...
AKD, the silent diplomat?
By Kassapa/Counterpoint Colombo, March 12 – A few weeks ago, when President Anura Kumara Dissanayake used his good offices to convince Pakistan to send its cricket team to play India in Colombo in the T20 Cricket World Cup after they had initially refused to do...
Alarming decline in press freedom in the US, falls from 4th to 11th place.
Throughout the Americas, regimes view the press as “public enemy number one” to evade accountability and weaken public scrutiny, says the Inter American Press Association
IRIS Dena: How Iranian vessels exposed the limits of Sri Lanka’s neutrality
A lens into Sri Lankan politics—and the diplomacy of a small, indebted state on the world’s busiest sea lane
US torpedoing ‘IRIS Dena’, an eye-opener for Indian Ocean region
By Shanika Sriyananda/DailyFT Colombo, March 11 – A US submarine torpedoing the Iranian warship – the IRIS Dena – in the Indian Ocean (IO) about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka killing at least 87 unarmed Iranian sailors and enabling Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to...
Realism in the Indian Ocean
By Milinda Moragoda/ Colombo, March 10 -The reported sinking of an Iranian frigate by a United States submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka — and the tragic loss of Iranian sailors — has triggered intense debate across social media and sections of the traditional...
Tiny Sri Lanka showed the powerful the continued relevance of non-alignment
By rescuing personnel from an Iranian vessel hunted by the world’s bigger power, Sri Lanka showed that non-alignment has a role to play in bringing back sanity
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