Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly.

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Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (seated C) and members of parliament wearing the outfit of the IRGC during a session at the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Tehran, April 9. (AFP)
Declaring the IRGC a terrorist organisation is not the last of US pressures on Iran
April 18, 2019
A member of the Libyan security forces looks at a Libyan army helicopter that was hit by shrapnel following an air strike at Mitiga International Airport in, April 8. (AFP)
Getting out of the Libyan impasse
April 13, 2019
Ekrem Imamoglu, main opposition Republican People’s Party candidate for mayor of Istanbul, embraces a supporter in Istanbul, April 1. (Reuters)
Erdogan’s ‘milestone on the road to the end’
April 06, 2019
At boiling point. Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian man during clashes in Nablus. (Reuters)
Trump’s ‘new parameters’ for Middle East peace are recipe for disaster
March 30, 2019
Rough terrain. The aeroplane carrying US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepares to land in the Lebanese capital Beirut, March 22. (AFP)
The Hezbollah conundrum
March 23, 2019
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party during a rally in Antalya, March 17. (AFP)
Turkish president is playing with fire
March 23, 2019
A Turkish journalist protests media repression outside a courthouse in Istanbul. (AP)
Erdogan’s attitude towards the media is out of this era
March 16, 2019
A diplomatic step. French President Emmanuel Macron (R) meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the UN headquarters on September 25, 2018. (AFP)
Iran should not send ambassadors and hit squads at the same time
March 11, 2019
A 2017 file photo showing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as prepares to vote in Algiers. (AP)
The only option for Bouteflika
March 09, 2019
Defence Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf (L), is sworn in as first vice president in front of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir during a swearing in ceremony of new officials in Khartoum, Sudan, February 24. (Reuters)
Violence is Sudan’s old, new normal
March 04, 2019
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, center, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, left, and Malta's Minister of Foreign Affairs Carmelo Abela speak with each other during an EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels, Feb. 18, 2019. (AP)
War goes on for European jihadists who now face battles in court
February 21, 2019
White House adviser Jared Kushner (C) attends a plenary session at the Middle East summit in Warsaw, February 14. (Reuters)
In Warsaw, conflicting agendas stand in the way
February 16, 2019
A displaced Syrian girl poses at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. (AFP)
How the West’s own problems are affecting the Middle East
February 14, 2019
A woman holds a placard during a demonstration to mark a previous anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran. (Reuters)
40 years ago, Shariat-Madari warned me against Khomeini’s intent
February 09, 2019
US Vice-President Mike Pence (L) and Callista Gingrich (2nd-L) as US President Donald Trump (R) speaks during a White House signing ceremony for a bill that activates support for Christians and Yazidis targeted by ISIS. (AFP)
Trump’s clash with Intelligence is not smart politics
February 01, 2019
A Syrian soldier stands at a checkpoint as a Russian military police vehicle passes by near the village of Almajdiyeh, last August. (AP)
The new game Russia, China play
January 26, 2019
A metal sculpture is seen at Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing, Israel January 21, 2019. (Reuters)
Springtime for Bibi and the mullahs
January 25, 2019
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (C) and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb (R) prior to Christmas Eve mass in the newly inaugurated Cathedral of Nativity in Egypt's New Administrative Capital east of Cairo, on January 6, 2019.
Urging rethink at al-Azhar
January 18, 2019
Former French boxing champion Christophe Dettinger (R) is seen during clashes with French Gendarmes at a demonstration by the "yellow vests" on the passerelle Leopold-Sedar-Senghor bridge in Paris, France, January 5, 2019. (Reuters)
Even amid a crisis, Paris is not Khartoum
January 11, 2019
Iranian parents visit a doctor to perform a health check on their son in northern Tehran. (Reuters)
Iran now takes on its academics
January 05, 2019