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Araghchi Says Ukraineâs Attack on an Iranian Ship in the Caspian Sea âCannot Go Unansweredâ
The Iranian diplomat added that in calls with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kaja Kallas, the EUâs top foreign policy official, he âmade clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED.â
The attack on the Iranian ship comes as Ukraine continues escalating its long-range drone attacks against Russia, which are carried out using intelligence provided by the US, and have been targeting Russian oil tankers and refineries, and have also been killing a significant number of civilians.
As the Iran war upends energy flows, Russia is emerging as the real winner
(March 10, 2026)
For Russia, which remains one of the worldâs largest oil exporters despite Western sanctions following its invasion of Ukraine, the price rally directly translates into stronger state revenues.
Henning Gloystein, managing director for energy and resources at Eurasia Group, said Russia has âalready hugely benefitedâ from the crisis after Washington granted India a temporary waiver allowing it to continue purchasing Russian crude.
Putin is the real winner in Trumpâs Iran war as it puts Russian oil back on the map
(March 23, 2026)
The war in Iran is spiking global oil prices, and Russian President Vladimir Putin couldnât be happier.
The war has bottled up one-fifth of the worldâs oil, putting a premium on the remaining supply, including Russian barrels.
Why has Iranâs air defence network failed so badly?
(March 3, 2026)
For long-range defence, Iran has developed the Bavar-373 which has comparable capabilities to the Russian S-300. For short range air defence, the country has reverse engineered the Chinese HQ-7 as the Ya Zahr, and in 2021 the Zoubin system was unveiled.
Besides these copy cat systems, the country also leans on ageing Russian air defences, most notably the S-300PMU-2 battery.
However, Israel destroyed a significant number of these components in October 2024 and again during the 12-Day War the following year. Worse still, the Israeli Defence Forces learned all they can about the system in 2015 during joint air drills with Greece, which formerly operated its predecessor, the S-300PMU-1.
The exercise allowed Israel to develop comprehensive electronic warfare (EW) technologies specifically designed to compromise radars like those used with S-300 batteries: the Icebreaker missile and Haroop loitering munitions.
Third Strike on Prince Sultan and Still No HQ-9 Intercept
(July 18, 2026)
Pakistan deployed the HQ-9 battery to Saudi Arabia in May 2026 under the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement, according to the Times of Islamabad and The Daily Star. The system is operated exclusively by Pakistani military personnel â not Saudi or American crews â and functions as a standalone package integrated with Pakistanâs own command-and-control architecture rather than with Saudi Arabiaâs existing air defense network, according to Defence Security Asia reporting from May 2026. The Jerusalem Post noted that Pakistan âdeploys the defenses as part of a package because of their interoperability with other Pakistani systems,â a formulation that carries an embedded concession: the HQ-9 is not interoperable with anything else at the base.
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The HQ-9 familyâs combat record is now the most extensively documented peacetime marketing success that has failed every wartime test it has faced. During Operation Sindoor in May 2025, Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighters launched two BrahMos-A air-launched cruise missiles at Pakistanâs Nur Khan Airbase near Rawalpindi, and Pakistan fired approximately 18 HQ-9B interceptors in response, according to Indian Defence Research Wing. The result was zero confirmed intercepts â both BrahMos missiles struck their targets, an 0-for-18 record that prompted Brandon J. Weichert, national security writer at The National Interest, to call the system âa Frankensteinâs Monsterâ reverse-engineered from Russian S-300 technology.
Israeli Concept, Iranian Drone, American Copy
(March 10, 2026)
Ten days ago, when the joint Israeli-American attack on Iran began, CENTCOM released a special statement: âFor the first time in history, TFSS has deployed one-way attack drones. These low-cost systems were developed based on the Iranian Shahed and are manufactured in the United States.â
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Sharp-eyed observers have noticed the strong resemblance between the Iranian Shahed drone and the Israeli Harpy attack drone developed more than 30 years ago by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
Death toll in Kyiv rises to 23 â administration
The death toll from the Russian strike in Kyiv has risen, according to Head of Kyiv City Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko.
„The death toll from the Russian attack has risen to 23 people,“ Tkachenko said on his Telegram channel.
Previously, 21 deaths and 100 injuries had been reported.
Trump hails Russia, China for being âneutralâ on Iran
Trump has thanked Chinaâs Xi Jinping and Russiaâs â Vladimir Putin for being âneutralâ during the US-Israel war on Iran.
âI just want to thank them because they made it â a lot better,â Trump said, adding that China was âterrificâ and made efforts to help settle the conflict.
Israel, Russia added to UN blacklist on sexual violence in conflicts
Published annually by the UN, the list includes dozens of state and non-state groups credibly suspected of having engaged âsystematicallyâ in sexual violence in countries such as Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Mali.
Last August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia of their possible inclusion on the list.
China Built The Most Advanced Space Station In Just 2 Years | Tiangong
Apr 30, 2026
China was rejected from the International Space Station in 2011 when the US Congress passed a law banning NASA from any cooperation with China‘s space program. Most nations would have accepted that and moved on. China did something completely different. They decided to build their own space station from scratch, alone, without any international help, and they finished it in just 2 years. The result is Tiangong, the Heavenly Palace, a 3-module space station orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth that is packed with technology so advanced it makes the ISS look like it belongs in a museum. From the world‘s first space microwave to smart circadian lighting, resistance band uniforms, and a robotic telescope 300 times wider than Hubble, what China quietly built up there is one of the most remarkable engineering achievements in human history.
Atomwaffensperrvertrag: Keine Einigung
Themen waren unter anderem die Atomprogramme des Irans und Nordkoreas.
Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Delivered by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General expresses his disappointment at the inability of the Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to reach consensus on a substantive outcome and to seize this critical opportunity to make our world safer.
UN event on nuclear non-proliferation treaty stumbles, US and Iran clash
There was no consensus among the 191 parties to the NPT, the third failure in a row at a conference reviewing the treaty
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Britainâs Rebecca Johnson, founding executive director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, had harsh criticism for both the US and Russia, the two largest nuclear powers, which she said âdouble down on nuclear threats, blame others and try to undermine or ignore the NPTâs nuclear disarmament commitments and related agreementsâ.
UAE President receives phone call from Russian President
Abu Dhabi: UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received a phone call from Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, during which they discussed various aspects of cooperation and joint efforts aimed at strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries.
Why are the state leaders of China and Russia complying with U.S. sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and Cuba?
(August 7, 2021)
Because they want to.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 9, 2026
Russian and Ukrainian forces continued limited offensive operations across the theater throughout the first day of the May 9 â 11 ceasefire.
Putin und Trump beraten in Telefonat ĂŒber Iran-Krieg
US-PrĂ€sident Donald Trump und der russische Staatschef Wladimir Putin haben nach Angaben des Kreml in einem Telefonat ĂŒber den Iran-Krieg beraten. Die beiden Staatschefs hĂ€tten sich bei ihrem GesprĂ€ch vor allem auf den Krieg am Golf konzentriert, sagte Kreml-Berater Juri Uschakow vor Journalisten.
Trump says he spoke to Putin about Ukraine and Iran during phone call
President Donald Trump told reporters that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call about the wars in Iran and Ukraine. NBC Newsâ Gabe Gutierrez reports on the assistance Putin offered to the U.S. in the war with Iran.
âShahed-type droneâ that hit British air base in Cyprus was not launched from Iran: UK Defence Ministry
(March 5, 2026)
UK officials said that there were no injuries and âminimalâ damage but the Iranian made drone strike has brought the conflict onto European soil.
In a statement on Wednesday, the UK Ministry of Defence said: âThe Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran. In the last 24 hours, the UK has resupplied air defence systemns to British and allied bases across the reigionâ including UK-built air defence missiles.â
Russia built a massive drone factory to pump out Iranian-designed drones. Now itâs leaving Tehran out in the cold
(August 28, 2025)
âFinally, something no one else has,â a Russian journalist says during a TV documentary on the countryâs largest drone factory. âSuch mass production of two-stroke engines doesnât exist anywhere else in Russia.â
The factory in question, Alabuga, 600 miles east of Moscow in Russiaâs Tatarstan region, has been pumping out increasing numbers of the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 attack drone (known in Russia as Geran), but the man behind the site believes this may be one of its greatest achievements.
Die USA greifen den Iran mit seinen eigenen Waffen an
(March 6, 2026)
Nun haben auch die USA ihre eigene Version der Kamikaze-Drohne gebaut â die LUCAS-Drohne. Sie ist ein Nachbau der iranischen Shahed. Ihren ersten groĂen Einsatz flog sie ausgerechnet im US-israelischen Krieg gegen den Iran.
Die USA dĂŒrften wohl an abgestĂŒrzte Shaheds â die seit einigen Jahren von Russland und dem Iran eingesetzt werden â gekommen sein und sie erfolgreich rekonstruiert haben. Die LUCAS-Drohne basiert auf den gewonnenen Kenntnissen.
The situation in the Middle East – Security Council, 10130th meeting
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Russia, China veto UN resolution on reopening Strait of Hormuz
The draft resolution prepared by Bahrain and supported by the United States received 11 votes in favor, two against and two abstentions.
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In 2011, NATO obtained the green light to intervene in Libya when Russia abstained from a vote. Moscow later fumed that this had led to the fall of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Russia evacuates 198 more staff from Iran‘s Bushehr nuclear plant, agencies report
Russian news agencies cited Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev as saying that developments near âthe plant âwere â unfolding in line with the worst-case scenario.
Likhachev said that âthe killed staff member was âan â Iranian national.
Rosatom said it had informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the â situation âsurrounding the plant, the âTASS news agency cited Likhachev as saying.
Here Are The Countriesâ Ships Allowed Through Iranâs Strait Of Hormuz
(March 27, 2026)
Below are other „friendly“ nations to Iran whose vessels are allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz
A Bid to Use Force to Open Strait of Hormuz Hits Roadblocks at U.N. Security Council
The actual vote on the resolution, which was drafted by Bahrain with the support of the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, is expected to be scheduled for Friday. But it remained unclear whether extra hours of diplomacy would bring the three veto-holding countries on board.
Russia, China and France are among the five permanent members of the council with veto power. There were also divisions over the resolution among the 10 nonpermanent members, according to diplomats.
Russia, China, France veto UNSC resolution to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Arab nations, led by Bahrain, seeking UN Security Council authorisation for military intervention to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have faced a major setback as Russia, China and France vetoed the proposed resolution.
The strategic Strait of Hormuzâthrough which approximately 20 per cent of the worldâs oil and gas supplies transitâwas closed by Iran on 28 February 2026 amid escalating conflict with the United States and Israel.
Putin floats the possibility of fresh nuclear tests following Trump comments
(November 5, 2025)
âRussia has always strictly adhered and continues to adhere to its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), and we have no plans to deviate from these commitments,â Putin said at a meeting with members of Russiaâs Security Council Wednesday.
At the same time, however, should the US or other countries who are signatories of the CTBT begin to conduct nuclear weapons tests, âRussia would also have to take appropriate and proportionate responsive measures,â Putin added.
Trump Hands Humiliating Oil Victory to Putin Thanks to Iran War Chaos
Oil prices spiked to nearly $120 per barrel this week, their highest level since the pandemic. At the opening of the Asian markets on Friday, the price stayed above $100 per barrel, despite Trump bending the knee to the Kremlin dictator.
The Financial Times reported Thursday that Russia was already the biggest winner from Trumpâs war, raking in as much as $150 million per day in extra budget revenues from oil sales.
But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, after announcing the move to release the sanctioned oil, said it âwill not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government.â
Why Vladimir Putin may be the big winner in Trump‘s Iran war
March 10, 2026)
Russian media was awash Monday and Tuesday with headlines and analysis about how the soaring oil prices will affect the country, but also its adversaries in the West. âEastern Strike: Oil Price Could Surpass $150â read the headline in Russiaâs pro-government Izvestia newspaper.
Elsewhere, firebrand pro-Kremlin TV host Olga Skabeyeva quipped Tuesday about people in the neighboring NATO nation of Estonia having to walk because public transport was already running out of fuel.
After Putin‘s meeting Monday, President Donald Trump appeared to hand him another gift as he suggested his administration was lifting sanctions on âsome countriesâ to stabilize the oil market.
Russia, China lambast adoption of unilateral resolution against Iran at UNSC amid US-Israeli aggression
Thirteen members of the UNSC voted in favor while the two remaining members â Russia and China â abstained.
Libyen-Krieg: Neue Sitzung der SchwachmÀchte im UNO-Sicherheitsrat
(22. MĂ€rz 2011)
Am 19.MĂ€rz, dem Tag des Angriffs von Frankreich, GroĂbritannien, Kanada, Italien und den USA auf Libyen, wurde in Moskau eine der erbĂ€rmlichsten ErklĂ€rungen in der russischen Geschichte veröffentlicht (Angriffskrieg gegen Libyen beginnt: Ticker). Das russische AuĂenministerium von Sergei Lawrow:
âIn Moskau bedauern wir diese bewaffnete Intervention im Rahmen der UN Resolution 1973, die hastig beschlossen wurde.â
Die Weltöffentlichkeit konstatiert: Russlands StaatsfĂŒhrung ist ein Haufen Tölpel, dem – wenn er schon nicht lesen kann und deshalb nicht weiss was vor sich geht – selbst das Wort „Veto“ mit einem einfachen Armhochhalten schon zu viel ist. Das Gleiche gilt fĂŒr die Atomschwachmacht China, deren leseunkundige kommunistische Staatspartei immerhin 1.3 Milliarden Menschen herumkommandiert. In der Parteizeitung „PeopleÂŽs Daily“ redete man sich heute nun selbst in ein Gewissen, was man nicht hat (1):
„Die blutgetrĂ€nkten Gewitter, denen Irak seit acht Jahren unterzogen wurde und das unaussprechliche Leiden seines Volkes sind ein Spiegel und eine Warnung. Die militĂ€rischen Attacken auf Libyen, folgend den Kriegen in Afghanisten und Irak, sind das das dritte Mal, dass einige LĂ€nder bewaffnete Aktionen gegen souverĂ€ne Staaten gestartet haben. Es sollte augenscheinlich sein, dass jedes Mal, wenn militĂ€rische Mittel benutzt werden um Krisen zu begegnen, dies ein Schlag gegen die Charta der Vereinten Nationen und die Regeln der internationalen Beziehungen sind.“
Die Weltöffentlichkeit versteht: frĂŒher hiess es in China „Bombardiert das Hauptquartier“, letzten Freitag hiess es „Bombardiert Libyen“ und heute wieder anders herum. Mal sehen, zu was sich Chinas StaatsfĂŒhrung am Donnerstag entscheidet. Vielleicht der Einfachheit halber zu „Bombardiert irgendwas“.
UN Security Council passes resolution urging Iran to stop Gulf attacks; China, Russia abstain
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday (March 11) adopted a resolution urging Iran to stop its attacks on Gulf nations, but the text avoided mentioning recent US or Israeli strikes on Iran, drawing sharp criticism from Tehran.
The resolution passed with 13 votes in favour, while veto-holding members China and Russia abstained. It âdemands the immediate cessation of all attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.â