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"Axis of Upheaval" is a term coined in 2024 by Center for a New American Security foreign policy analysts Richard Fontaine and Andrea Kendall-Taylor and used by many foreign policy analysts, [1] [2] [3] military officials, [4] [5] and international groups [6] to describe the growing anti-Western collaboration between Russia, Iran, China and ...
Rumored German instigation for a pro-Axis coup d'état in Iran before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. [24] Operation Tiger (German plans to instigate a pro-Axis Pashtun insurrection on Waziristan to menace North India through Border conflicts with Afghanistan. Carried out since August 1942, but cancelled in 1944 due to economical problems)
The invasion's strategic purpose was to ensure the safety of Allied supply lines to the USSR (see the Persian Corridor), secure Iranian oil fields, limit German influence in Iran (Reza Shah had leveraged Germany to offset the British and Soviet spheres of influence on Iran) and preempt a possible Axis advance from Turkey through Iran toward the ...
The expansions began at Khojir in August last year and at Modarres in October, Lewis said, based on images of the sites. Iran's arsenal is already the largest in the Middle East, estimated at more ...
Taking stock of the emerging cooperation, a Congress-backed group that evaluates US defense strategy dubbed Russia, China, Iran and North Korea this summer an “axis of growing malign ...
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
The CRINKs are often referred to as the new autocratic "axis of evil", President Bush's 2002 phrase referring to Iran, Iraq and North Korea. [2] [11] [12] The term is widely used in discussions of rising anti-Western sentiment. [13] It has also been mentioned in reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine [4] and the Middle Eastern crisis. [2]
Russia and Iran signed a mutual defense and security cooperation pact on Jan. 17 — just days before ... in the anti-Western axis formed by China, Russia, Iran and North ... Years of sanctions ...