Washington Post op-ed: 'Germany has only itself to blame' for dependence on Russian gas

The Washington Post published a guest column by James Kirchick, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, which argued that Germany’s leadership should blame itself for the country becoming overly dependent world-regions for oil. “Russia’s state-controlled gas provider, Gazprom, has just announced that it is cutting down to 20 percent of capacity the amount…

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Iran grants bail to American conservationist jailed on espionage charges, report says

conflicts to Iranian-American conservationist, Morad Tahbaz, after he was convicted of security offenses, according to the semi-official Iranian ILNA news agency. Tahbaz, who also holds British citizenship, was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for “contact with the enemy U.S. government.” The punishment was part of a crackdown on those with dual citizenship…

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