In an April 26, 2024 show on Iran's Ofogh TV, Tehran University professor Foad Izadi, who is a leading Iranian regime mouthpiece, discussed the protest encampments on U.S. university campuses. Noting that the Iranians like what they are seeing, he nevertheless underlined that "it should not end with this." These students are "our people," he said, adding that they are the ones
London-based Iranian YouTuber and political commentator Ali Alizadeh criticized Iranian student organizations in an April 27, 2024 interview with IRINN TV (Iran) for failing to join worldwide anti-Israel protests. He said that no matter how much criticism they have of the Iranian regime, history will judge them for keeping silent in face of this “genocide.”
On April 22, 2024, Chinese media outlet Xinhua published an article, titled "Destabilizing South China Sea Is U.S. Strategic Objective," by Koh King Kee, the president of the Centre for New Inclusive Asia, a non-government Malaysian think tank. In the article, Koh King Kee analyzes the heating up of the tensions in the South China Sea and stresses that the area has become the
As tensions rise between Russia and the West, the Kremlin strives to increase its influence with the countries of the "Global South." Moscow enjoys stable diplomatic ties with some countries in Africa (some relations forged during the era of the former Soviet Union). Russia also seeks to control valuable assets on the continent: former Wagner Private Military Company (PMC)
In a column headlined "Hizbullah in Princeton" in the Saudi magazine Al Majalla, Syrian journalist Alia Mansour came out against the displays of support for terrorist organizations that have been evident in student protests at U.S. universities – such as the waving of Hizbullah flags at Princeton University – and against expressions of support for Al-Qaeda, which has killed