Two years of civil war in Syria have caused more than 100,000 deaths and determined at least 1.7 million refugees across its borders.
The approximately three-quarters of Muslims of Syria belong to the Sunni sect. However, the Assad dynasty, which ruled the country from 1970 belongs to the minority Alawite sect, which is close to Shiite Islam.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a staunch ally of Assad's government and has provided (and provides), military training and economic development.
In his first press conference since the election last June, the Iranian president Hassan Rohani said that there would be problems to conduct direct negotiations with the U.S. on the Iranian nuclear issue, as long as national interests are protected and to be put aside language of pressures and threats.
The U.S., according to Rohani, should not follow any hidden agenda and work towards the mutual respect between the two nations. Rohani also criticized the laws passed by the House of Representatives U.S. and the calls by U.S. senators to a tightening of sanctions against Iran.
Today, 4 August 2013, after having received yesterday the blessing of the Supreme Leader Khamenei, the new Iranian president Hassan Rohani has sworn in front of the Majles during a ceremony which was attended for the first time sent from different countries: the former EU chief diplomat Javier Solana, the presidents of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan, and the officer of North Korea Kim Yong Nam.
Hassan Rohani happens to Mahmud Ahmadinejad, who during his two terms has been noted for the closure to the West over its nuclear program and the increased tension with Israel.
It seems that the only words of the newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rohani were enough to set in motion international opinion and stimulate the various powers to assess future opening to Iran. Before establishing officially, the president Rohani said that his future government is committed to a policy of constructive understanding with the world, all while defending the rights of the Iranian people.
Today's elections in Iran have elected Hassan Rohani as the new Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic, but who is the new president?
Hassan Rohani was born in Sorkheh in the November 12, 1948. He graduated in law at the University of Tehran, he continued his studies in law getting a doctorate at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. Currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and the Assembly of Experts, covering the role of director of the Center of the Expediency Council for Strategic Research. Politically deployed among the ranks of the moderate and centrist. Known as "the sheikh diplomat," was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005 and in this capacity, the chief diplomat for negotiations on Iran's nuclear development.
At eight o'clock this morning (now Iran) ended the campaign for the presidential election. The political clout of the six candidates (two candidates withdrew at the last second by giving their support to fellow party members remained in the running) is quite balanced and can not therefore make any predictions, will be decided by the vote of the 50 million eligible and is supposed to arrive on the ballot that, in the event, will be held on June 21.
It is well known that the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as delineated on paper, the reality is somewhat unpredictable, in the last 40 years there have been so many turns and twists that now the external spectator expects to everything. The Constitution of Iran is a bundle of contradictions: it appears as a modern charter, innovative, a novelty in the world and in history, in fact, the Fundamental Charter of Iran is unique as he said the former president of the Republic Rafsanjani:
Tension is increased in the Middle East, from the drone shooting down on 25 April to the airstrikes in Syrian territory on Jamraya and Al Saboura; those events undermined the unstable geopolitical balance.
Sunday morning May 5 Israeli jets struck for the second time in three days, several military facilities near Damascus, killing dozens of soldiers near the presidential palace.
The air raids have hit the Republican Guard bases and an important military research center in Jamraya that according to U.S. sources should be the main plant of chemical weapons in Syria.
Il capo dell’intelligence militare israeliana ha stimato che l’Iran potrebbe produrre la sua prima bomba atomica entro i prossimi 8-12 mesi. Nonostante le smentite iraniane il generale Aviv Kochavi non ha dubbi il programma nucleare iraniano è finalizzato a sviluppare armi nucleari. L’Iran ha accumulato più di 4 tonnellate di uranio arricchito a un livello del 3,5 per cento e quasi 100 Kg arricchito al 20 per cento. Queste quantità di materiali sono già sufficienti per quattro bombe atomiche. Le bombe nucleari richiedono uranio arricchito al 90 per cento “weapon ready” ma gli esperti occidentali fanno notare che la maggior parte dello sforzo e delle difficoltà sono richiesti per arrivare al 20 per cento di purezza. Theran ha dichiarato di voler utilizzare il 20 per cento di uranio arricchito per scopi agricoli, medici e per aumentare l’esportazione di petrolio. Israele non ci crede e ha quindi minacciato di attaccare i siti nucleari di Natanz, Arak e Fordow se diplomazia e sanzioni non risolvono la questione.
