Новости за 15.06.2016

Arash Karami, Al-Monitor
With the presidential election one year away, the Iranian press is already speculating about Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani entering the race.

Paul Beaumont, Independent
It looks like the England football team may have found a novel way of exiting a major international football tournament early this summer. Usually they just underperform on the pitch, stunning lesser teams in the group stages with their ineptitude. But (whisper it) this England team is actually quite good. They might have got a draw against Russia in their first game but they played the Cossacks off the park.Â

Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times
As the world's third-largest democracy and the largest Muslim-majority nation, Indonesia is a country that seems perpetually on the brink of fulfilling its potential or toppling back into the chaos of its past.

Dubowitz & Fixler, Medium
Tehran has already received a major “stimulus package” in the form of sanctions relief. Indeed, Iran has brought oil to market more quickly than expected by drawing down its inventories, accessed imports, and stabilized the economy.

Agnes Poirier, The Guardian
Terrorist attacks, strikes, floods and Euro 2016 violence have taken their toll. We are exhausted.

Hannah Beech, Time
It was there—and then it wasn't. On Tuesday evening, foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) performed a diplomatic magic trick. First, after a meeting with their Chinese counterpart in southwest China, they issued a statement on the rising tensions in the South China Sea, parts of which are claimed by six regional governments. The language, for a body that prides itself on consensus-making and group photos of grinning dignitaries, was stern... Читать дальше...

RealClearWorld
Watch part three of RealClearWorld's recent interview with author Shadi Hamid on his latest book, "Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World."

Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
Ever since the group came to prominence amid security vacuums in Iraq and Syria, it has set about persecuting religious minorities, women and others whose identity and lifestyle are anathema to its puritanical creed. In areas under the control of the Islamic State, its fighters have issued edicts against homosexual behavior and flashy hairstyles and promised death for anyone caught in the act of sodomy.

Marius Laurinavicius, The American Interest
What does a prominent Russian filmmaker's apparent about-face—from Kremlin critic to a willing agent of Putin's propaganda machine—tell us about the very nature of the Russian regime?

Abdulla Hawez, Daily Beast
Shia militias have allegedly killed 50 fleeing civilians and kidnapped 640 more.

Piotr Smolar, Worldcrunch
JERUSALEM — One of the three men locked up in cell number 28 at the Hadarim prison loves reading. Whether it's in Arabic, Hebrew or English, he devours history books, poetry collections and biographies of famous Israeli leaders. He wants to know the way they think.

Peter Bergen, New York Times
WASHINGTON — AFTER a terrorist attack like the one in Florida on Sunday, one of the first questions people always ask is: Why? Why would someone take the lives of innocent civilians who are total strangers? That is a question to which I have long sought an answer. But my search has led me instead to another question: Is an answer even possible?

Ian Harris, Foreign Policy
With Brexit looming, France, Germany, and other European financial centers are rolling out the red carpet for London's banks and trading houses. It's a fool's…

Philip Breedlove, Foreign Affairs
Over the past three years, the United States and NATO have shifted their attention to Russian aggression and the ongoing instability in the Middle East and North Africa. But Washington and the alliance still need to do more, and above all, increase the resources available to U.S. troops in Europe.

Ben Nadler, The Atlantic
Since ancient times, civilizations have carried staffs, crests, and banners to declare their identities.

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Europe's largest economy is only allowed to lead when it puts its money on the line. (And even then, there's pushback.)

Jonathan Rosen, World Politics Review
ALEM GENA, Ethiopia—As she shuffles about the factory floor, watching over the machines that weave spools of thread into fabric, Asrat Yimam personifies the future of the Ethiopian workforce.

Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
Today's U.S. deployments in the Middle East look similar to those in 1972 Vietnam.

B. White & F. Guerrera, Pol. EU
As British voters appear more willing to leave EU, markets everywhere brace for a fall — and give Hillary Clinton another reason to worry about her chances.

Andrew Wilson, American Spectator
Soybean farmers can't wait for “Thatcherism cubed.”

Philip Johnston, Telegraph
For a political journalist, the crisis triggered by the Rome summit was as big as it gets. As a citizen, it completely changed my view of the European project. From that moment, it was quite clear that an institution we joined in the full expectation of being able to influence its evolution while defending our own national interests – a partnership of equals, in other words – was going to do whatever it wanted, notwithstanding Britain's misgivings.Â