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Paper / Saudi Arabia vs. Ansarullah: The Neutralized Saudi Conventional Power
Comparison of the Saudi military strength with that of Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement reveals a considerable gap in the weaponry power and the power to win in the war. Enjoying advanced warplanes supplied by the US and Europe, modern tanks, air defenses, and multibillon military budget, the Arab kingdom has the superiority when it comes to conventional military equipment, but years of Yemen war have shown that air superiority and expensive arms necessarily do not mean certainly realizing political and military goals.
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Paper / Egypt’s Yemen War Dilemma: Balancing Political Reservations and Strategic Interests
Cairo began to face a key question about future of its regional policy when recently Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi declared the country's readiness to take actions in defense of Saudi Arabia should Riyadh requested. The president also called on the parliament to issue authorization for such an action.
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Paper; Israel’s Fury at Nobel Choice: Pillay and Gaza Genocide Case
This year, Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem Navi Pillay, a prominent South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. This choice has become the latest flashpoint between Israeli regime and international institutions.
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Paper; Israeli Navy: From Protecting Coasts to Addressing Threats in Distant Waters
Though the Israeli regime is considered an air power in West Asia and North Africa, its geographical position, economic dependence on the sea routes, and serious limits in territorial depth have given sea a significance beyond a subordinate operation scene in the Israeli security strategy. For a regime that has a major part of its population and economic hubs in the coastal areas of the Mediterranean and the distance between ground and sea borders in some areas are too short, control of maritime environment means creating a kind of strategic depth, something its territorial geography lacks.
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Paper; Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation
Reports suggest the US President Donald Trump is mulling ending the security and military support to Iraqi Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces, and if implemented, the plan would mean that the US forces will move out of Kurdistan region by end September. The issue has drawn concerns about the future of security in the autonomous region.
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Political Expert: Unity of Front Must Become a Law in Iran, Tehran Standing by Hezbollah
Andisheh Sazan-e-Nour Institute for Strategic Studies in Tehran hosted a meeting discussing Lebanon's political and military developments in Lebanon. Allah Karam Moshtaghi, a West Asia affairs expert, shed light on the Lebanese developments, political, security, and social pressures against Hezbollah, and role of Iran in Lebanon, and the recent developments in the southern Lebanon.
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Paper; BRICS and Test of War: Iran, Energy, and New World Order Equation
The 18th BRICS summit was held in India, drawing leaders of the world's emerging powers to set the stage for the group's next chapter, naming its incoming chair, mapping out an economic agenda to deepen cooperation, and tackling the thorny issues shaping the bloc's trajectory as it gathers speed. The gathering also aimed to stake out a role for the bloc of rising economies in steering an international order that is shifting toward multipolarity.
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Paper / Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss
Though the US President Donald Trump claimed that the Iranian missile strikes on the American bases in the Persian Gulf have not inflicted meaningful damage on these facilities ovetlr past six months, as the war drags on, new reports emerge to reveal fresh details of the US damage and casualties, to the extent that the White House officials can hardly hide the true dimensions of these losses.
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Paper / Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?
Consolidation of Yemeni Ansarullah movement's control over Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and strategic islands in the Red Sea is a geopolitical development whose reverberations will go far beyond Yemen's borders. For the Israeli regime, such a development can stor changes to security and economic equations on one of the most sensitive sea fronts around the occupied territories.
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Paper / Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation
While the Strait of Hormuz in recent months has become one of the main points of military and naval flareup in the region, new developments in Yemen coasts and consolidation of Ansarullah's controlling position in Bab-el-Mandeb Strait have exposed a new stage of the geopolitical prospect of this conflict.
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Paper: Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean
As tensions have escalated between Israeli regime and Turkey in recent months, the two sides have intensified their push to cement and expand their influence in various regions. Eastern Mediterranean, meanwhile, that has for years been a setting for Tel Aviv-Ankara dispute once again rose as an area of confrontation.
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Paper / US-Venezuela Oil Deal: Trump Feigning Achievement to Cover up Losses
The US President Donald Trump since the beginning of his military campaign in Venezuela and abduction of its President Nicholas Maduro made it clear that the main aim was to seize control of the oil of this South American nation. Now after eight months, Washington claims it has realized its wish to dominate the Venezuelan oil.
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Paper: What’s the Strategic Significance of Lebanon’s Ali Taher Heights?
In today's wars, seizure of heights necessarily does not mean ultimately winning the conflict. But its significance becomes clear when the location is used to establish intelligence superiority, control military movement routes, and impose costs on the opposite side. Meanwhile, Ali Taher heights in southern Lebanon, which are a flash point these days, are more a broader geographical-military network than a single military target.
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Paper / Ankara and Tel Aviv: Is Syria a Potential Ankara-Tel Aviv Clash Ground?
While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey nurtures his neo-Ottoman dream leadership, complete with potentially performing prayers at Damascus’s Umayyad Mosque, Israeli regime has turned that dream into a jumbled nightmare, upending Turkey’s calculus for the new Syria.
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Paper / From Red Sea to Black Sea: Geopolitical Impacts of Ukraine’s Attack on Iran’s Ship in Caspian Sea
The attack on an Iranian commercial cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea on Saturday could mark the opening of a new chapter in the broadening conflict between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition and the emerging coalitions forming around it.
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Paper: What’s Agenda of Iraqi PM’s Tehran Visit?
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi’s trip to Tehran today is far more than a routine diplomatic visit between neighbors. Scheduled in the first months of Baghdad’s new government, in line with Iraqi political tradition, the visit underscores that Iran remains a decisive factor in Iraq’s strategic calculations, and that no administration in Baghdad can stabilize its foreign policy without first recalibrating ties with Tehran.
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Paper: Iraq at a Critical Juncture in Relations with US
The new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi who has recently made an important political and propagandistic splash by his daring, unprecedented anti-corruption campaign, this time has broken the tradition choosing the US as the first destination of his first trip since he took the office later in April. He flew to Washington to meet the US President Donald Trump on Monday, a move aimed at highlighting the importance of the relationship between the US and Iraq and also securing Trump's support for the new cabinet.
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Paper / Hamas Gaza Govt. Dissolution: Aims and Effects
Months after the ostensible end of the war in Gaza, the coastal enclave's reality keeps to be a far cry from the post-war revival promised under the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement and reconstruction, return to pre-war normalcy, and economic renewal remain elusive. Against that backdrop, Hamas’s announcement that it is dissolving its government in Gaza has ushered the territory’s political dynamics into a new historical phase. The move appears directly tied to the stalled progress of the Sharm el-Sheikh deal.
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Paper: A Ticking Bomb in Beirut: What’s Behind Israeli-Lebanese Deal?
After five rounds of Israeli-Lebanese talks in Washington, the two finally struck a deal on Friday. The agreement was fast to cause outrage in Lebanon, with the people, especially the Shiite citizens, going furious at the government for its commitments under the deal.
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Paper: Four Strategic Messages of Iran’s Missile Strikes at Israel
The IRGC’s missile strikes at Israeli regime last night and this morning that came in realization of threat to respond to the Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon were not a simple military action, rather, they carried a message of state of Iranian military readiness, the way of Iran's use of two ceasefires for rebuilding its military power, and also a transformation of the operational doctrine of the Axis of Resistance.
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Revisiting US-Iran role projection: An emerging "self" vs. a tarnished "image"
The new war imposed on Iran by the U.S. and Israel has changed the international role of the countries to a great extent. In this analysis we are going to revisit this new role projection from a scientific point of view in the light of role theory in international relations.
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Paper / Eurasia Amid Iran War: Economy, Security and Rivalry of Corridors
While the US-Israeli war on Iran has drawn the whole world attention to the Persian Gulf as the heart of the tension, this war has its impacts going beyond the borders of conflict, fundamental impacts that can seriously alter regional orders in mid terms.
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Paper: The Picture Martyr President Raisi Drew to Talk to Today’s World
As Iran marks the second anniversary of its late President Sayyed Ibrahim Raisi, time is fit for shedding light on some of his measures and policies that are related to the current conditions.
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Paper: Iraqi Parties Locked in Intense Negotiations for Bigger Cabinet Share as New PM Starts Talks
Two weeks after election of Iraqi prime minister, politician factions are pushing to consolidate their share and position in the new government, something making Baghdad, Erbil, and Suleimanyeh scenes of political horse-trading.
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Paper: Araghchi’s Mission in Beijing amid Hormuz Strait Blockade and Energy Crisis
As a new wave of tensions has started between Iran and the US in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, Iran's foreign policy has stepped into a more active stage in which Tehran seeks to boost coordination with its allies.
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Paper: Trump’s "Project Freedom" a Failure Story
While the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US is already combustible due to Washington’s blockade on Iran and the continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon, a new provocative move by Trump in the Strait of Hormuz risks sinking the region in a fresh conflict.
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Five reasons why Islamabad talks reached a stalemate
The stalled negotiations between Iran and the United States remain at the forefront of global geopolitics, following Pakistan-mediated talks in Islamabad earlier this month that concluded without a breakthrough.
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Israel feared Amal Khalil the most as she refused to be intimidated into silence
Mossad had threatened to “sever her head from her shoulders” if she did not stop reporting. However, she defied the occupation regime and did not give up highlighting Israel’s crimes in southern Lebanon.
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Analysis: What Do Polls Say about Iranians’ Approach to Talks?
When a society grapples with exceptional conditions like war, public opinions present themselves as one of the main factors in analyzing its political behavior and its strategic orientations. In Iran, coinciding with the experience of 40-day war and the massive public turnout in support of Islamic Republic, the country displayed a kind of unity and collective standing in the face of foreign threats, an approach that has reflected in some polls in another way.
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Paper: Zionists did not show mercy even to statue of Jesus either
The criminal army of the Zionist regime destroyed the statue of Jesus Christ (PBUH) in southern Lebanon.