The Free Union of Iranian Workers says several workers at the Isfahan Steel Company have been arrested in recent days amid rallies in the area of the industrial complex over their conditions.
While China has been Turkmenistan’s top buyer of natural gas for more than a decade, Russia has regained some leverage over Ashgabat and intends to use it, experts say.
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The Trump Administration is calling for this year’s Group of Seven (G-7) summit of world leaders to be held at the White House at the end of June. Originally scheduled for June 10–12 at Camp David, a Washington summit attended in person by the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States would send a powerful message about re-opening the world’s economies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ilham Aliyev, and Serdar Berdimuhamedov met last week in the Turkmen city of Awaza on the Caspian Sea coast, following a meeting of their foreign ministers over the summer. Considering the economic and cultural links the three countries share, it is surprising that this was their first such summit.