Iran
Before American missiles returned to Iran, the bargain had already collapsed at sea. On Iran’s case, Washington broke the memorandum by refusing to respect Tehran’s temporary administrative role over Hormuz, then revoked oil relief…
Israel
The Iran crisis has exposed the machinery beneath the US-Israel security relationship. Israel can still escalate, but the…
Iran
The US Iran memorandum is not a peace settlement. It is a recognition that the Middle East can…
Iran
The US Iran memorandum does not end the conflict. It moves the war into a colder arena of…
Iran
Iran
United States
United States
Iran
The United States says its latest strikes on southern Iran were defensive operations carried out with restraint. Iranian media says the attacks prove Washington…
China
Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping is not a peace conference or a grand bargain. It is a crisis…
United States
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing is not a peace summit or a grand bargain. It is a crisis management meeting…
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the risk that the Strait of Hormuz crisis has shifted from blockade to direct confrontation.
Iran
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked…
Iran
Iran has sent no delegation to Islamabad, undermining assumptions that talks are underway. As the ceasefire weakens and…
Iran
The latest US Iran talks show that the real obstacle is no longer just the nuclear file. It…
United States
The White House says another round of talks with Iran may happen in Pakistan, but no date has been set and the first Islamabad…
Diplomacy
Economics
Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Defence
The Pakistan brokered ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is being sold as a narrow diplomatic success. In reality it is…
Law
This legal analysis examines whether reported strikes on a school, health facilities and a bridge in Iran, together with Donald…
Diplomacy
As Trump threatens wider war and Pakistan’s mediation channel stalls, an overlooked essay by former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif now reads like the clearest public outline of the kind of settlement Tehran…
Defence
Opinion
Economics
Economics
Defence
The forces moving into the Gulf are not an invasion army for Iran but a rapid reaction package built for seizure, raid and coercion.…
Defence
The war with Iran is revealing a deeper structural problem in the American security system. Early strikes on…
Defence
Kharg Island handles most of Iran’s oil exports. If it becomes a battlefield, the conflict stops being a…
Defence
A war that was expected to produce quick coercive results is instead revealing three deeper pressures shaping modern…
Defence
Iran claims it struck the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with missiles and drones during the expanding West Asia…
Defence
The war around Iran is exposing a deeper vulnerability in the global economy. A narrow maritime chokepoint that carries roughly…