International Affairs - West Asia

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla General – the salient issues Iran’s nuclear programme is on a different footing from other nuclear-weapon states, for two reasons. It is a signatory of the NPT, and has provided no reason for 60% enrichment of 440 kg of uranium; it also openly threatens to destroy another member-state of the UN. The Hamas terror attack was aimed at preempting Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords, which it was close to doing in September 2023. In this, the t

The creation of Transjordan thus dividing Palestine into two - full text. Article 25 to the Palestine Mandate Memorandum by the British...

The Palestine Mandate The Council of the League of Nations: Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving...

December 2018 The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas in Central and West Asia over the Decades This is an update of an earlier essay on the same...

Omar [L] and Mansour [R] – Omar’s death in 2013 was hidden for two years; Mansour was chosen as his successor. A good starting point for...