SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Politics in general, including foreign policy, followed by political action and diplomatic measure, appears natural and is more welcomed when it can emerge from a country’s worldview and its civilizational, historical, moral, religious and political customs. Otherwise, it will not achieve much success. Compliance with the principles may sometimes cause an apparent loss to the holder in the short term, but compliance with the principles will benefit everyone in the long run.
Mohsen Baharvand – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Turkey affairs, commenting about the zigzag policies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government towards the Syrian government, said: Turkey’s president started great efforts to change his regional policies almost from the middle of 2022; efforts that were visible in the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and then the effort to normalize relations with Egypt. At the same time, recently there were murmurs about holding high-level talks between Turkey and Syria.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: A university professor stated that Peru has now become a symbol of the conflict between rightism and leftism in the Latin American region and this conflict is showing itself strongly, adding that “what is happening in Peru is related to the fate of the new wave of leftism that has re-emerged in the region and politicians do not allow a socialist character to come to power in this country.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Simultaneously with the formation of the most extreme government of the Zionist regime in the past 75 years, the Occupied Territories have entered a new stage of tense internal conditions, and as a result, protests are expected to spread and cover various areas.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online: Secretary of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said: Today, the number of victims of the US cruel sanctions in the world far exceeds the number of victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues stated that the Palestinians have pursued their complaint in the International Court of Justice in order to pursue the Palestinian issue more seriously at the international level and in view of the new radical and right-wing Zionist cabinet that has taken measures to annex parts of the West Bank, adding that any vote against this regime and in favor of the Palestinians in international courts can have negative consequences for Israel and raise the illegality of the continued occupation of the Zionist regime more prominently in the public opinion of the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Germany’s political and military support for Ukraine continued last year, and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz promised in his New Year message that his country will continue to support Ukraine in 2023.
Mahmoud Fazeli – International affairs analyst
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on East Asian issues believes that China knows that after the realization of US conspiracies against independent, rival and critic countries such as Russia and Iran, Beijing will be the next target of these conspiracies, which will be pursued through any means, even the spread of insecurity and the growth of terrorism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs stated that choosing the usurper Zionist regime as the leader of the new regional coalition with the participation of Arab states is a very big strategic mistake. He added that the possibility of the formation of a regional coalition and implementation of what is being discussed in the Negev negotiations will not be easy to achieve. There are many reasons for this, including the deep differences of the Arab countries and their conflicting interests with each other, as well as their conflicts with the Zionist regime, and the formation of a new extremist government in Israel has also added to the existing challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: After the Russia’s military strike against Ukraine in early months of 2022, many international observers and analysts thought that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, due to their proximity to the United States and Western countries, would immediately condemn the attack and would join the camp of the West, but the speculations did not turn out to be correct.
Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Mazaheri – University professor
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
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.