The ongoing protests in Iran are primarily triggered by a serious economic crisis, although regime change voices are also significantly loud. The immediate trigger is the dramatic collapse of the Iranian Rial (Iran’s currency), which plunged to a historic low of around 1.42–1.45 million to the US dollar
After Saudi Arabia remarked that it views the UAE’s arming of the STC as “a red line for its national security”, the UAE’s Foreign Ministry claimed that it is not a part of any regional effort to undermine Saudi Arabia.
In a dramatic development in the ongoing investigation into the murder of prominent Bangladeshi student leader and anti-India activist Sharif Osman Hadi, the prime...