Iran has been living with Western sanctions for almost 40 years, and never have so many sanctions been imposed so quickly as against Russia. Although their effect is limited, there is little alternative. Iran knows it, China knows it and apparently, so does the US government: despite existing sanctions against the oil industry of the Islamic Republic,...
“In the war of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiaries of the biggest European media are American financial institutions.” This is an excerpt from this week’s Tucker Carlson rather tepid interview with Vladimir Putin and...
The US Treasury department has imposed sanctions on three shipowners based in the United Arab Emirates, accusing them of exporting Russian crude oil priced above the $60 per barrel limit set by the G7 and Australia.The move by Washington comes as it tries to increase enforcement of the Russian oil price cap following evidence that...
Wealthy Russian buyers are fueling UAE real estate boom. Russian buyers are expected to continue fueling the real estate boom in the UAE in the short term. They are purchasing more and more expensive properties than other buyers. With rent prices soaring in the UAE, locals and expatriates alike are increasingly looking towards buying property....
As geopolitical winds shift, the US and European governments turn a blind eye to Emirates’ money laundering problem. BERLIN — Germany, the U.S. and several other Western countries are pushing a global money-laundering watchdog to give the financial system in the United Arab Emirates a clean bill of health despite persistent indications that the country...