SCFR Online – Opinion: The withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.
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 withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.
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 withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.
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 withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.
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 withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.
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 withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.
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 withdrawal of American forces from Iraq has marked the end of Washington’s direct military presence in the country; however, America’s financial, political, and security levers can still affect and cause problems for the future of this country.
SCFR Online – Opinion: After months of war and economic pressure, the situation between Iran and the United States has been placed between two conflicting logics; Washington insists on intensifying pressure to gain concessions, and Tehran does not accept negotiations under pressure.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Riyadh, amid the Iran war, Yemeni pressure, and ambiguous Washington guarantees, has turned to flexible balancing in order to both preserve its security and increase its bargaining power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: London’s decision to provide military support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen file, beyond a limited aerial mission, could confront Britain with broad legal, security, economic, and strategic consequences.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The acceleration of AI competition has shattered the boundaries of economic, military, intelligence, and cognitive power, turning this technology into a strategic component of national power.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington and his meeting with Donald Trump on September 24 and 25, 2026, accompanied by a ceremonial welcome at Andrews Air Force Base, was more a diplomatic display for managing the level of tensions than an indication of a breakthrough achievement in relations between the two powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Developments in the South Caucasus and Central Asia indicate that transit competition has become an arena for a new staging of influence among Iran, Turkey, Russia, and China.