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Iran is heading for presidential elections scheduled for June 18 that will determine a successor to the incumbent President Hassan Rouhani. The president is considered a moderate politician who led Iran into the 2015 nuclear deal. He cannot seek re-election since he is barred from running for a third consecutive …

A few years ago, an academic and author named Harry G. Frankfurt wrote a book called ‘On Bulls**t’.  The title is self-explanatory, and the subject matter is as expected. Still, a repeating theme of the book is how quickly and easily people claim to be experts on a given topic …

Laurence Fox was already a well-known actor and singer when an appearance on BBC political show Question Time afforded him a completely different notoriety. That was in January last year, as millions of people reacted to his forthright views on racism. And it sparked the momentum which saw Fox launch a …

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, 68, born four days before his namesake’s death in 1953, is the son of the late five-time chief minister M. Karunanidhi, the hugely popular president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party. After votes were counted on Sunday, it emerged that the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance – …

Afshin Rattansi (host of RT’s Going Underground show): I’m Afshin Rattansi and you’re watching a lockdown season finale of ‘Going Underground’ during and after coronavirus lockdowns, right around the world, impacting on all our lives, who better than to speak to the most influential public intellectual in the Western world, …

Fed up with being second-guessed and used as political pawns, over a dozen officers from the Albuquerque, New Mexico PD have resigned from the riot control squad this month, head of the police union told RT in an interview. “What is going on is all about trust. The Albuquerque police …

The Afghanistan Papers, published by the Washington Post in 2019, revealed that the US has for many years been aware that it cannot win the war in Afghanistan, yet it has been reluctant to accept defeat and withdraw. US policy has been defined in indecisiveness, as neither victory or defeat …

All countries have a lot to lose from a war, and unpredictability is an important factor as a series of unknown variables will make it nearly impossible to exercise escalation control and calculate the consequences. However, the assumption that states always act rationally is deeply flawed. The rational unitary actor …

Democracy is a fragile institution which must be nurtured in accordance with the rule of law if it is to survive the foibles of the human condition which it seeks to govern. Israel has functioned as a democracy since its founding in 1948, with a parliamentary system, known as the …

Peter Szijjarto spoke to RT on Sunday, a couple of days after he received the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. The minister said he has not experienced any side effects. I had not felt anything neither during vaccination nor after it. I received the first shot in the evening of Friday, …