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Analysis: Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Mode Shift from Reaction to Action
The latest remarks of the secretary-general of Iran's Supreme National Security Council General Mohsen Rezaei about setting a new "prohibited zone" around the Strait of Hormuz is a significant signal of shift in Tehran's approach to managing the Persian Gulf crisis. This shift demonstrates that Iran is no longer on a defensive mode in dealing with the US pressure and sea blockade and that now it sets new rules for the navigation in the region.
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The broken illusion: US fails to subdue Iran in war
Washington said the war would force Iran to surrender. Instead, after months of strikes, US officials now warn of rising costs, depleted missile stocks, and an Iran that remains strong.
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Attacking a wedding: War or crime?
According to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, civilians and all those who are not participating in the war should not be targeted under any circumstances and should be protected by governments and international organizations, including the United Nations Security Council.
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Analysis / No More Security for US: Goals and Messages of Iran’s Attack on Titin Base in Jordan
The main significance of this attack lies in the shift of the geography of the conflict, namely the expansion of the clash theater from the traditional regions of the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean to a point near the borders of the Israeli regime and one of the most important chains of the US military logistics in the region.
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Analysis / Duel over Sea Blockade: What’s Iran’s New Tactic in Economic War?
Iran's New attacks on the American naval vessels around the Strait of Hormuz in recent days should not be read merely as an action to destroy the enemy equipment. Rather, the true significance of these attacks lies in the fact that Tehran has managed to force a change to the formation of the American forces and push the blockade line away from its operational area.
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Analysis: Bombing of Weddings, the US’s Fixed Pattern of Crimes in the Region
For families across Middle East, wedding ceremonies are far more than a family ritual; they are a symbol of life and continuity. But over the past two decades, wedding celebrations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen have repeatedly turned into scenes of civilian death during US military operations or those of its allies. This week, that grim pattern was repeated when an American airstrike hit a home hosting a wedding in Kuhestak, a mountainous area in Sirik County of Iran's Hormozgan Province.
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Analysis / US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?
Reports suggest that the process of withdrawal of the US forces and Patriot missile systems from Erbil suburbs is making a gap between some media sources and Iraqi Kurdistan region's officials.
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Analysis / Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?
Following US strike on positions in Iran’s Larak Island, Iran’s armed forces fired back with a missile attack on US targets in Jordan. At the same time, Tehran announced that ships and tankers in the Persian Gulf were now in its crosshairs. Tension and the specter of confrontation have once again encompassed the region, raising an urgent question: Are Tehran and Washington on the brink of yet another wider war?
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Trump's war on reality: when AI becomes a substitute for victory
In yet another delusional outburst from the decaying American empire, Donald Trump has once again proven that Washington's leadership has lost all touch with reality. His August 31 declaration that "Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!" represents not strategic analysis, but the desperate hallucinations of a regime accustomed to imposing its will through deception
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Analysis: Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
Six months of the US-Israeli war on Iran has left a significant and perhaps long-term impact on West Asia's security order, making Arab countries in the Persian Gulf question the reliability of the US security umbrella for them. This has encouraged these monarchies to diversify their military and security partners.
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Analysis / Iran, Pakistan at Cooperation Crossroads: Opportunities, Barriers, and Proposals to $10-Billion Trade Volume
The Iranian-Pakistani relations that have their roots in centuries of historical, linguistic, and religious commonalities these days are witnessing their most complex period. This relationship, can be called a two-sided blade, on the one hand bears vast capacities for economic, security, and cultural cooperation and on the other hand faces structural obstacles and geopolitical competition.
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Analysis / Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel
Tensions between Turkey and Israeli regime in recent weeks have gone beyond political dispute over Gaza war and have elevated to a more direct confrontation over Syrian future, military influence in the region, Eastern Mediterranean, and region's security formation. However, some analysts suggest that in the current conditions, Ankara does not seek to engage directly in war, rather, it seeks to activate a combination of legal, diplomatic, economic, abs military instruments to increase Tel Aviv's costs of actions and at the same time steer clear of controlled clash.
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Analysis / Washington’s dilemma over Iran: Avoiding war or avoiding a deal?
An analysis of the behavior and statements of US government officials indicates that Washington is effectively at a loss over how to deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran and is caught between the options of war and a deal.
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Analysis / Expensive weapons: Heavy price of fake security in Persian Gulf
In the latest example of lucrative U.S. arms deals with the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, the U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of four KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft to Qatar for a staggering $4.5 billion.
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Analysis: Trump’s New Sanctions Plan against Iran Futile, Observers Argue
Donald Trump’s declaration of a new “economic war” and fresh sanctions blockade against Iran comes with pledges of the toughest penalties in US history. Yet even inside the US, serious doubts are mounting over whether the strategy will actually work. Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent contend that the latest financial crackdown on Tehran will force it to back down.
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Analysis: Iran’s Weapons Arsenal Redefining Deterrence Power
In the shadow of the informal ceasefire between Iran and the US and continuation of no war, no peace condition, the weapons stockpiles have become one of the most important issues discussed by military analysts.
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Analysis / Continued US military presence near Iran: An action contrary to Islamabad MoU
The US military presence in West Asia, particularly through its numerous and extensive bases in the Persian Gulf states, has long been one of the main factors contributing to instability and escalating tensions in the region.
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Commonalities of Arbaeen with Major Global Rituals
Arbaeen, as one of the world's largest religious and human gatherings, draws millions of pilgrims from various countries to Karbala each year; a ritual in which walking, voluntary service, mourning, and popular solidarity are seen at the highest level. Among the world's great and well-known ceremonies, there are rituals that share similarities with Arbaeen in some respects, although each has developed within its own specific religious and historical context.
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Analysis: India, from an Importer of Israeli Arms to Israel’s Strategic Partner
While the world public opinion and rights organizations call for the world to stop arming the Israeli war machine amid its increasing crimes in Gaza and other parts of West Asia, reports suggest that some countries are turning a deaf ear to this demand by boosting Tel Aviv’s military strength.
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Analysis / Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
After two weeks of fruitless airstrikes against Yemen to press Ansarullah resistance movement to withdraw its recently announced sea blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, Riyadh once again moved to the already tested and failed formula of coalition making.
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Analysis: Why Hasn’t Oil Friendship with China Worked for Saudis?
These days, the Red Sea has become one of the world's top hot spots. On July 20, Yemen's Ansarullah after an attack on Sana'a International Airport by Saudi Arabia formally announced a martime blockade on Saudi Arabia, practically reactivating a front that was roughly dormant following a 2022 ceasefire deal.
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Analysis / Sixth Retreat: Why’s Trump Called Off latest Iran Bombing?
The latest Trump claim that he called off a planned attack on Iran marked another retreat by the blustering US president. After a wave of threats and promises of a heavy bombing campaign against Iran's energy infrastructure, he said that he, for now, has decided to avoid a military escalation to give diplomacy a new chance.
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Analysis: Why U.S. dominance is coming to an end
Three decades after Operation Desert Storm, strategic circles in the United States are increasingly questioning whether the era of Washington's uncontested supremacy has come to an end. According to this view, the war against Iran demonstrated that the global balance of power is shifting and that the credibility of U.S. deterrence is beginning to erode
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Analysis / Dim Outlook of Israeli Influence in Central Asia: What Does Russian Analyst Say?
Professor Igor Pankratenko, a historian and senior expert at Russia’s Center for Strategic Assessment and Forecasting, is the kind of analyst who tracks Central Asian geopolitical shifts with a sharp, unblinking eye. To him and his colleagues at Russian research institutes, the region has morphed into a high-stakes arena for great-power rivalry since the Soviet collapse in the early 1990s.
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Analysis: Why’s UAE Gone Silent in Renewed Saudi-Yemeni Escalation?
Re-eruption of military tensions between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement after a three-year relative peace does not mean just failure of the diplomacy between Riyadh and Sana'a but rise of a new balance of power among the Persian Gulf Arab states, disclosing more than any other time the gap of interests between the former allies.
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Marriage Amid War and Sanctions: From Costly Tradition to Simple Beginnings
Among the greatest obstacles to marriage today are the exorbitant costs of wedding halls and lavish receptions. Yet eliminating these venues—or replacing them with simple, home-based celebrations—can reduce expenses to a fraction of what they once were. Equally burdensome are the heavy dowries and unconventional bride-wealth demands that fall heavily upon grooms and their families, delaying marriages for years on end. And then there are the repeated, costly ceremonies—pre-wedding parties, henna nights, and the like—which, unless approached with restraint, create still more financial pressure at the very start of a shared life.
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What happens in case of American ground invasion of Iran?
Months have passed since the beginning of the American and Zionist regime's aggression against Iran, but Washington has still not achieved any of the goals with which it justified the war. Contrary to Donald Trump's claims, the United States has neither been able to destroy Iran's nuclear program, nor has it succeeded in eliminating the country's missile capability, nor has it achieved the goal of regime change, nor has it managed to weaken the Resistance Front. As a result, a war that was supposed to force Iran to retreat in a short time has now exposed the failure of America's political and military calculations.
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Analysis: Have Arab Rulers Finally Woken Up from Deep Sleep to Reality?
For four decades, the US security strategy in the Persian Gulf has rested on a promise telling the Arab monarchies that if they align with Washington, accept American military bases on their soil, buy billions in arms from its companies, and partner to the project of "containing Iran", it guarantees their security.
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Analysis / War of Corridors amid Iran War: Shadow American Fight against China and Russia
At first glance, American-Israeli bloc's aggression against Iran looks like a confrontation over deterrence, nuclear program, or the balance of power in West Asia region, but in its lower layers, this war can be considered as part of a competition over redefining the international economic and political geography whose main scene is not West Asia skies or Persian Gulf waters, but the network of transportation, ports, railways, and trade corridors in Eurasia.
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Analysis: What’s Behind Postponing Netanyahu’s Planned US Visit?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's canceled visit to Washington was officially blamed on a Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral. But political sources in Tel Aviv paint a very different picture, one that points to widening cracks between Donald Trump and the Israeli PM, as the two longtime allies enter a new phase of distrust and open disagreement over the region's most critical issues.