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Analysis / Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey
The age-old strategy of "divide and rule" has long been a staple of diplomacy, particularly wielded by colonial powers to expand their spheres of influence. And in today's era, this tactic is alive and well, just as it was in the days of empire.
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Analysis: New Arab View of Post-war and Post-agreement Iran
Field developments across West Asia region, particularly after a period of inflamed tensions and the subsequent push toward an Iran-US agreement, have revealed clear signs that Arab states in the region are recalibrating their perspectives.
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Analysis / Araghchi’s Iraq Visit: From Post-war Order to Tehran-Baghdad Security Cooperation
On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Baghdad heading a diplomatic delegation. This is the first visit to Iraq of the top Iranian diplomat since the US-Israeli 40-day aggression on Iran, coming in critical regional conditions. In fact, the visit is coming as the region after the recent war on Iran and finally accepting Iran's terms by Washington and Tel Aviv for ceasefire has entered a new stage.
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Analysis / New Security Arrangements in Strait of Hormuz: Why’s Oman Cautious?
After signing the MoU between Iran and the US, vessel transit in the Strait of Hormuz has taken a rising trend. According to the deal, Tehran commits to cooperate for freedom of navigation in the key waterway and will not charge tolls on the ships transiting in at least 60 days.
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Analysis / Battle for Hormuz: Why’s Recent US-Iran Trade of Fire Decisive?
The trade of fire in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz on Saturday and Sunday should not be regarded as transient developments caused by violation of the ceasefire deal Between Washington and Tehran. They should be seen as part of a full-scale confrontation to establish an important and decisive equation regarding the legal status of the navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, future of war, and the security order in the region.
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Analysis: Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured Persian Gulf for the first time since the war with Iran and signing the peace deal with Tehran. Visiting the three countries of the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain, the top US diplomat also held a summit with (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council, closing the meeting with a joint statement.
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The Husseini Epic of the Martyred Leader: A Family Sacrificed on the Altar of Resistance
On February 28, 2026, the world witnessed a truth enemy media had long denied: Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and his family—from his wife to a 14-month-old infant—were martyred together in their own home. In a modern-day echo of Karbala, the Leader chose honor over shelter, proving that the Islamic Revolution's path is paved not with compromise, but with sacrifice.
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Analysis: What’s behind Trump-Netanyahu Disagreement in the Light of Iran Deal?
While the talks between Iran and the US have reached signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to end the war on all fronts and this announcement was enough to send a political and media shockwaves across the Israeli regime and even some accuse Trump of betraying of his closest ally Netanyahu,
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Analysis / Israel Military Deployment to Jordan Borders: Aims and Consequences
The Israeli regime that in recent years through expansion into Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza has tried to move its security belt beyond its borders now is looking to the eastern front and is starting new activities in the West Bank and near the Jordanian borders.
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Analysis / Yielding to Ceasefire: Why’s Trump Agreed to Iran War End?
Finally, white smoke rose out of the White House on Sunday, something suggesting that the US government has reached a new deal. The smoke appeared after the US President Donald Trump announced reaching a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran to end the war he waged since February 28. Simultaneously, the deal was confirmed reached by Tehran, and Qatari and Pakistani officials as mediators, too, announced the agreement.
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Iran among architects of new regional order
The United States and the Zionist regime launched the recent war on Iran with the objectives of changing the regime, fragmenting Iran, and seizing its oil resources. By combining military pressure, economic sanctions, psychological operations, and efforts to destabilize the country internally, they believed they could break the will of the Iranian nation
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Surrender or war: The only options Washington contemplates
There is a reading that circulates comfortably in certain political circles, reappearing punctually each time Washington changes occupant: the conviction that American hostility toward Iran is, at bottom, a matter of persons. That with the right interlocutor, the correct economic offer, the timely diplomatic gesture, the conflict could be resolved.
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Analysis: Baghdad Seeking Ways Out of the Strategic Energy Bind
Closure of Strait of Hormuz following the joint American-Israeli aggression against Iran has left Iraqi economy grappling with one of toughest shocks. This vital bottleneck, through which over 20 million oil barrels cross to the global markets, was closed to the Iraqi oil exports all of a sudden. A country whose budget relies 90 percent on the oil revenues suddenly found itself in a strategic dead end for energy exports.
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Analysis: Iran’s More Credible Threat Vs. Trump’s Credible Threat
Over the past several days, the US has been engaging in aggression and stoking fires in the Persian Gulf and off Iran’s coasts under various pretexts. Three key points stand out on this regard:
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Analysis / Liar-in-Chief? Five False War Claims by Trump
The US President Donald Trump has lost his credibility even at home, so much so that recently the Democratic senator Adam Schiff commented on his treachery, saying that the president makes "falsehood after falsehood" and that the president's account of the state of negotiations to end the Iran war “lacks a lot of credibility.”
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Suicide Bomber Killed After Blast Outside Mosque in Pakistan’s Lakki Marwat
A suspected suicide bomber was shot dead by residents in northwestern Pakistan on Friday after his motorcycle, packed with explosives, detonated outside a mosque.
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Analysis: Pakistan’s Growing Military-Security Influence in Arab World
As traditional power equations in West Asia undergo a shift and the race to shape the region’s future security architecture reaches a climactic point, several Islamic powers are seizing the moment. With a clear-eyed reading of the security vacuums left by wars and political crises, they are taking bold steps to expand their influence.
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Analysis / Operation Nasr: How’s Iran Shattered Trump-Netanyahu Calculations?
The two-day clash between Iran and the Israeli regime after a two-month truce was, more than a temporary confrontation, an effort by the two sides to change the dynamics of the fragile ceasefire that has put the region in a state of no war, no peace. Both of them tried, through new attacks, seize the initiative and foist their conditions on the opposite side.
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Analysis / Israel Invades Lebanon: While Hezbollah Fighting, Lebanon’s Govt. Waiting Mirage of Talks
Exactly at a time the Lebanese president and prime minister are sitting in their offices and waiting for success of the Washington negotiations for end of the barbarous Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the Israeli army is making advances deep in the Lebanese territory, marching beyond Litani River and close to the city Nabatieh in the south. The Israeli push is so hard that if it was not for resistance of Hezbollah fighters, the presidential palace would have been occupied now.
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Analysis: Is Oman Facing a Repeat of 2017 Qatar Crisis?
Having thought that all of the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf will align with the US policies regarding the Strait of Hormuz and join the pressures against Tehran, the US President Donald Trump now faces a different reality, one in which some regional players are uninterested to fully comply with the American demands. Within this context, any country moving out of the US orbit faces strong reaction of the White House.
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Analysis: As Netanyahu Escalates Lebanon Aggression, He Faces Three Risks
While regional mediators and key international actors are trying to end a lingering crisis and restore stability by pushing for end of the war in the Persian Gulf, the Israeli war machine in Lebanon is moving to generate further crisis and chaos. Tel Aviv not only has not stopped its attacks on southern Lebanon, but also broaden its range.
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Defiance will define the world order
A hegemony never simply fades into history on its own. In fact, over the last couple of years, the world has witnessed U.S. hegemonic policy reach new extremes—even as the power sustaining that hegemony declines.
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The shock absorber doctrine and the ‘Abraham’ suicide pact
The old American playbook in the Middle East has completely shed its diplomatic veneer. Arab capitals are not treated as sovereign partners; instead, they have been strategically downgraded to regional shock absorbers designed to absorb the geopolitical, economic, and military blows meant for Tel Aviv and Washington
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Analysis: Iran Must Keep the Blade of Hormuz Strait on Trump’s Head
Years of successive, intensive, and turbulent negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 finally led to the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal under the Obama administration. Although the agreement denied Iran certain key nuclear rights, something which pleased the US and Western countries, Trump tore it up with a single stroke upon taking office in his first term in 2018. The other signatories also failed to fulfill their obligations toward Iran as outlined in the deal, leaving Iran stripped of all its rights and suffering heavy losses.
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Muharram Gatherings Are Platforms for Resistance, Not Just Rituals, Scholar Says
The tragedy of Karbala is not a closed chapter of history but an ongoing movement for justice and truth. A Shia scholar making the remarks ahead of Muharram said Imam Hussain's (AS) sacrifice speaks to all of humanity. He urged the youth to draw lessons of honesty and courage from the event.
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Analysis: World Outraged by Israeli Treatment of Sumud Flotilla
These days, the epic move by the Steadfastness (Sumud) Flotilla and the recurring tragedy of the brutal suppression of small boats carrying meager food and medical aid crushed by the heavily armed warships of the Israeli army have once again hit the news headlines on Gaza developments.
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Analysis / Untold Angles of Minab School Crime: Unending Stories of that Black Day
“After the first explosion, I rushed to the class and then called the parents to come collect their children. Around 11:20 a.m. a massive explosion hit the school. I struggled to open the door of the class and around five seconds later, I heard the second and third explosions, the sound of which was closer and more horrifying. I barely managed to pull myself up, and with my own eyes I saw the second floor of the school collapse onto the first.”
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Analysis / Potential Agreement with Iran: Washington Frustrated, Tel Aviv Furious
Trump is claiming he has won the war against Iran, but his remarks about possible deal with Iran raise questions by many about whether he is losing the war.
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Analysis / Fact-check: Have China and Russia Left Iran Alone in Confrontation of the US?
The US President Donald Trump, who claims that with the aggression and the Sea blockade he has destroyed Iran economically and militarily, is trying on the diplomatic arena to establish the picture that the policy of threat and pressure has succeeded in keeping Iran’s partners from expanding cooperation with Tehran, tightening the noose on the Islamic Republic.
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Analysis: Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement
Last week, the diplomatic stagnation that set in after the first Islamabad talks finally began to lift. At least, that is the picture emerging from officials’ remarks and a flurry of new diplomatic movements, suggesting a window is opening for a fresh round of negotiations.