Search Results for: Neville Teller

Why dealing with Iran is a non-starter
Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. L-R Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), More...

Turkey’s suspicious charm offensive
by Neville Teller Back in the fall of 2020 Turkey’s relations with much of the world were at a low ebb while, at the same time, political developments were in train that seemed likely to frustrate its More...

Can Libya’s prime minister survive the scandal?
Libya’s prime minister abdul hamid dbeibah/Twitter by Neville Teller Here’s a name that has not yet hit the world’s headlines – Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. He is Libya’s interim prime More...

Is Biden content for Iran to conquer Yemen?
L-R US president Joe Biden, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Neville Teller For the past decade Yemen has been torn apart by civil conflict, an extension of internecine strife that goes back much More...

A new tune from the Middle East Quartet
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov (UN Photo Loey Felipe – 23 March 2016) by Neville Teller On February 3, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that now More...

Biden’s Iran dilemma
by Neville Teller The Iran issue poses a real predicament for Joe Biden, as he takes up the reins of office. How can he fulfill his election promise of returning the US to the Iran nuclear deal, while More...

Does normalization justify Biden’s return to the UNHRC?
Protest at UN against China’s re-election in the Human Rights Council by Neville Teller Comparatively speaking, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is still in its infancy. Set up only fifteen years More...

Are the Taliban to be trusted?
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Doha, Qatar, on 12 September 2020 by Neville Teller How have the Taliban, a known hardline Islamist group, come to be a significant world More...

Normalization ‒ the new norm in the Middle East
by Neville Teller Over the course of a few months, the well-established link between supporting the Palestinian cause and opposing normalization with Israel has been severed. All four of the Arab states More...

Abbas and Biden – a workable partnership?
by Neville Teller Joe Biden knows as much about the background to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as anyone, and more than most. Over the eight years 2008–2016 More...