In the shadow of escalating global strife, Jamie Dimon’s recent pronouncement rings with unsettling gravity: “World War III has already begun.” His words pierce through the financial pragmatism one might expect from a CEO, instead casting a sobering gaze upon a world veering toward conflagration.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Finnish counterpart Elina Valtonen have exchanged views on the latest developments in the West Asia region.
The recent exchange of fire between Israel and Iran represents a troubling escalation in an already volatile region. Israel’s airstrikes, targeting military installations in Iran, were a response to Tehran’s earlier missile barrage on Israel.
Iran said that it reserves the right respond "legally and legitimately" to an earlier Israeli attack on multiple targets in three of its provinces.
Iran media on Saturday said that the country’s air defence systems have been activated in central Tehran in response to the escalating attacks by Israel.
Recently, increasing demand in the summer, among other factors, has caused shortage in power supply across Iran.
The nuclear negotiations have been plagued by contradictory, anonymously leaked information coming from Iran, testament to a conflict between the administration of the outgoing President Hassan Rouhani, the relatively moderate cleric who clinched the 2015 deal, and the hardliners now seeking to replace him.
After the former US President pulled out of the multinational agreement in 2018, both sides have now realised that mutual trust must of necessity be restored to bridge what Washington calls “tremendous and profound” discord for the past several years.
Unfortunately, South Korea has followed the US in implementing illegal sanctions against Iran over the past three years, which has depressed the bilateral relations, Iran`s First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said.
The Prime Minister's arrival in Tehran on Sunday came two days after Iran released a South Korean-flagged tanker seized three months ago in the Gulf for violating environmental regulations and marine pollution.
