As Beijing helps revamp the Iranian capital’s metro system, a bigger picture of counter-hegemony takes shape Last week, Masoud Dorosti, the managing director of Tehran’s bustling metro system, dropped a bombshell: After seven years of intense negotiations, the Iranian capital is gearing up to welcome a whopping 791 sleek metro trains from China. It’s a…

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Kiev lacks funds to pay its military due to the “catastrophic” state of its finances, Nikolay Azarov has claimed The Ukrainian economy has turned into a “zombie” that only shows signs of life with Western financing, former Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov claimed on Monday.