SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.
Strategic Council Online: If the German-French-UK agreement about INSTEX has shown the willingness of EU member states to act against illegal extraterritorial sanctions of third states, the conflict over the US extraterritorial sanctions against Iran has also shown the need for a strategy of the European Union vis-à-vis that challenge. The member states and the European Commission share the widely accepted opinion that these sanctions contravene treaty law and international law and are illegal and should therefore not be observed. Moreover, the EU can plead the protection of its external security, which is more threatened by the US Iran sanctions than is the security of the US itself. EU member states have the same right as that invoked by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo before the International Court of Justice on behalf of his country, namely “the sovereign right …. to take a lawful action necessary to protect (their) security”.
Professor Christian Deubner – Member of the FEPS Scientific Council
Strategic Council Online: The taxi driver in Tehran was furious: “Where is the EU? We believed that you were strong enough to deliver on your commitments, but why are you not doing anything to stand up to Trump?”
Vassilis Ntousas – FEPS
Strategic Council Online: Hezbollah’s goal in contributing to Lebanon’s political trends is for the “Resistance” to maintain its arms; Hezbollah has never sought to tribalize politics.
Dr. Ahmad Zarean – University professor
Strategic Council Online: The main losers of a US pullout from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty are the European countries. The reason is that the treaty had banned deployment of short-range and medium-range missiles in Europe but new circumstances could emerge after US withdrawal.
Shoaib Bahman, Expert on Russian Affairs
Strategic Council Online: After the announcement of a sudden decision by the US President Donald Trump on the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a shock wave was felt in the United States and the Middle East including Washington’s allies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Israel. The announcement sparked the concern that the United States might reduce its role in West Asia and that withdrawal from Syria was a prelude to pullout from the Middle East region.
Amir Ali Abolfatah – American Affairs expert
Strategic Council Online: In the context of the Moscow Conference, it seems that a declaration that could be endorsed by all sides is very important because it shows that the Taliban are prepared to sit at the negotiation table and, in the meantime accept the distribution of power and stop monopolism.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Expert on the Subcontinent Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Undermining the current position of Ashraf Ghani in the political arena of Afghanistan and in competition with rivals in the upcoming presidential election is one of the challenges that could lead to increased insecurity.
Mohammad Reza Asgari Moroudi – Senior Researcher on Asia Affairs
Strategic Council Online: INSTEX is a kind of cooperation between Iran and Europe in the face of US unilateral approach in the case of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Its important impacts go back to the sustainability of cooperation too.
Reza Majidzadeh – International Affairs expert
Madrid – The 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution could have offered the West an opportunity to reflect on the failure of four decades of disengagement to bring the Islamic Republic any closer to collapse, or the region any closer to peace. Instead, the Trump administration has doubled down on hostility, with nothing to show for it.
Javier Solana – President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
SCFR Online-Opinion: Sanctions are gradually transforming from classical financial instruments into complex mechanisms for the containment of technology, data, and global supply chains.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus is an attempt to redefine France’s role in Syria following the recent political developments in that country; an effort pursued within the context of great power competition and the country’s security challenges.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
SCFR Online – Opinion: At a time when the West Asia region, particularly in recent months, has been undergoing the most complex political and security developments of the past half-century, the sudden decision by the cabinet of the Zionist regime to recognize the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, which has faced strong condemnation and opposition from Ankara and Baku, raises questions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The recent aggressive war launched by the United States and the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran not only failed to strengthen NATO, but also exposed the structural weaknesses, deep divisions, and identity crisis of this alliance more than ever before.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The competition between China and the United States is no longer solely about economics or military power, but is now centered on the control of algorithms, data, and the governance rules of artificial intelligence.