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Iran’s Pyrrhic Victory

The one persistent feature of Iranian foreign policy since the toppling of the Shah in 1979 was its rather grandiose optimism about its own ascendance to a hegemonic role in the Middle East. The ayatollah’s Islamic Republic never considered the revolution it had kidnapped to turn inward. Instead, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of […]

Moroccan economy shakes off Covid impact, IMF says

Morocco’s economic activity has recovered most of the ground lost during the severe global recession of 2020 with a growth rate of 6.3% last year and medium-term growth prospects of 3.5%, as the country continues its fiscal and monetary stimulus, the IMF said. Morocco has posted the highest growth rate in the MENA region in […]

At Least 180 Illegal Migrants Storm into Ceuta

Over 180 illegal migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa broke into the six-meter fence surrounding the Spanish-occupied city in northern Morocco, Ceuta. Images broadcasted in the media show the migrants sprinting over the border from the Moroccan side Monday, in the early morning before sunrise. The migrants who reached Ceuta were eventually rounded up and taken to […]