SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Director of Yemen Desk at Mersad Center for Strategic Studies, explaining the targets and achievements of Ansarollah’s recent attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, called it a response to the escalation of the siege of Yemen and said: Ansarollah decided to show some of the pressure imposed on the Yemeni people over fuel shortage to the Saudi people so that perhaps with social pressure, the Saudis lift the siege of the Yemeni people.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to Turkey on March 9, 2022, after 14 years since his last visit at this level, one of the main topics of which was the development of exploration of Turkish gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea.
Hassan Ashrafi – Researcher on Turkish affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As the construction of a reinforced concrete wall can be considered as a necessary and indispensable measure to prevent the trafficking of terrorists along the Iraq – Syria border, even at some checkpoints of the borderlines, on the other side, new initiatives and setting up mechanisms to preserve land links as well as coordination among Syrian and Iraqi forces and also resistance groups at two sides of the borders are of strategic and vital importance.
Hamid Khoshayanad, Expert of the region’s affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An analyst of West Asia affairs says the news of a recent visit between the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Zionist regime with his Qatari counterpart is purposeful and could be assessed in line with the interests of the Zionists and creating impediment on the development of relations between Iran and Qatar.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Having stated that after Ukraine war, NATO has reached to its highest level of integration within the past two decades, a member of Scientific Board of Strategic Studies Research Center said:” paying more attention to the East Europe, increasing the allocated budget and stationing more military forces as well as helping sort out their challenges, the gap that existed among the European members of NATO has severely narrowed and their integration will further increase in future”.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert of Middle East issues, referring to the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Washington’s approaches to threat, said after the Second World War and distribution of war spoils among the conquerors, despite some common concerns between the two poles of East and West, the national security threat component changed based on variables from the Second World War.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: During a visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the joint initiative of the 21st century known as “One Belt One Road”; he introduced this plan as the main axis of his foreign and domestic policy. Currently, 145 countries of the world are part of China’s large economic project.
Ali Khansari – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The stance of “neither support nor opposition of China” towards Russia’s war against Ukraine is due to the fact that the country, on the one hand, has some strong incentives for supporting Russia and Moscow’s victory in confronting the West and, on the other hand, is concerned about the negative consequences of Russian sanctions and their repetition.
Dr. Tahmoures Gholami – Expert on international affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, two important events occurred in the energy market; first, the negative expectation shock in the field of oil supply, which led to an unprecedented rise in oil prices in recent years and second, the European and American approach to Russian energy (oil and gas) imports has intensified efforts to find alternative resources.
Reza Majidzadeh – Director of Simorgh Development Working Group, Pasargad Millennium Plan Institute
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: As long as China will not achieve a much higher position than it does today in the hierarchy of power of the international system, in the case of Taiwan it will not resort to the same way that Russia did to Ukraine. The West’s coherence in the Russian embargo was instructive for Beijing that the West merely wants an excuse in a legitimate form to weaken its rivals and enemies.
Dr. Fatemeh Nakolalazad – International affairs researcher
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US-Saudi nuclear agreement, despite legal and political ambiguities, could alter previous non-proliferation standards in West Asia and intensify nuclear competition, ushering it into a new phase.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Recent developments in Syria indicate an intensification of strategic rivalry between Turkey and the Israeli regime, but mutual considerations and the role of the United States have limited the likelihood of direct war.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The future of the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza, despite claims of an agreement on Hamas’s disarmament, remains shrouded in ambiguity due to structural deficiencies and opposition from key actors.
SCFR Online – Opinion: An examination of the mechanisms of the Israeli regime’s influence in the United States depicts a complex picture of shared interests, strategic dependencies, and the limitations of this relationship.
SCFR Online – Interview: The signing of the Makkah agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey has raised questions about the future of the region’s security structure and the position of these countries in West Asian equations. Can this agreement become a genuine collective defense mechanism, or does it have more of a political and deterrent function than creating new military capacity?
SCFR Online – Opinion: The continuation of the US war against Iran, in addition to increasing operational costs, has called into question the actual capacity of the American arsenal to simultaneously fulfill security commitments on multiple fronts; an issue that affects deterrence, defense production capacity, and Washington’s resource prioritization.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Russia-Ukraine war and the war of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran have been formed with different objectives and actors, but field and political developments indicate that they are not entirely separate from one another.
SCFR Online – Opinion: On Friday, August 7, the heads of state of three countries – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan – signed a text under the title “Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.”