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Iran’s Nuclear Quest in Recess
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

On July 2, some explosions at the nuclear component facility at Natanz in Iran appear to have damaged the crucial centrifuges delaying its programme by at least two years as per Iranian officials. Earlier, there was yet another blast said to be at th....

July 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Israel , China , JCPOA , Saudi Arabia , Cyber Attack , Natanz , Joe Bidden
Mapping Israeli Sovereignty, Jewish Settlements, and a Future Palestinian State
Mayuri Mukherjee Article

July 1 has come and gone, and despite the hysteria in some circles, the world did not wake up this past Wednesday to find that Israel had become sovereign over large parts of Palestinian land. So what was all the hoopla about, and what lies ahead? ....

July 08, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Palestine , Golan Heights , West Bank , refugees , sovereignty , Trump Peace Plan , East Jerusalem , Annexation
Refugees, not Settlements, are the Bigger Impediment to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Mayuri Mukherjee Article

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments that his new government, with support from the Trump Administration in the US will annex parts of the West Bank have, as expected, caused quite a flutter in the international community. Ma....

June 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Palestine , refugee crisis , Naqba day , first war of independence , UNRWA
West Asia Roundup - May 2020
Dr Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

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West Asia continued to suffer under the onslaught of Covid -19. While Iran despite its socio-economic problems and US sanctions remained the major victim in the region others caught up rather fast. Some took early c....

June 06, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Libya , Turkey , Covid -19 , Haftar , Northern Yemen
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 27, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

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China Rules Out Animal Market and Lab as Coronavirus Origin
Chinese scientists in recent days said they had ruled out both a laboratory and an animal market in the city of Wuhan as possible origins of the coronavirus ....

May 27, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Israel , South China Sea , Afghanistan , Belt and Road Initiative , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Daily scan , Antibodies , Fact-Check warning , Latin America , Air Travel , Artemis Accords , French Auto Industry
The West Bank Jitters
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Last week in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intent of formally annexing some parts of the disputed West Bank to their territory , King Abdullah II of Jordan warned the Israelis and the World especially the US that it will l....

May 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , Palestine , West Bank , Deal of the century , MEPP
West Asia Roundup– February 2020
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

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US-Taliban
After a weeklong trial halt in violence by Taliban against US or Afghan targets the Peace Agreement was signed between US and Taliban in Doha that seeks to end the 19 years old war and presence of US for....

March 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , India , US , Saudi , Taliban , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , Iranian elections , Qatar hosts peace agreement , Idlib conflict , Hosni Mubarak’s death
Pegasus— A Powerful Tool of WhatsApp Surveillance
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The Facebook’s subsidiary company—WhatsApp, on 29 October 2019, filed a lawsuit in the United States California’s Northern District Federal Court against Israel-based cyber-arms1 firm— the NSO Group, for infecting ‘specific’ gr....

February 05, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Israel , India , technology , Pegasus , WhatsApp , CyberEspionage , CyberSurveillance , NationalSecurity , Malware , Spoofing
Brainstorming Session on ‘India and West Asia – a New Paradigm Shift and Policy Options’

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Brainstorming Session on ‘India and West Asia – a New Paradigm Shift and Policy Options’. The deliberations broadly focussed on assessing the present situation in the West Asian Region ....

July 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Interaction , Israel , Chabahar Port , Syria , Indian Diaspora , Gulf region
Commentary: President Trump and Jerusalem
Amb K P Fabian Commentary

President Trump’s decision announced on 6th December 2017 to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to order the transfer of US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem reminds one of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the esta....

January 04, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Jerusalem , Israel , Palestine , UNGA resolution
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