SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.
Strategic Council Online: The United States seems to be pursuing two main goals in Afghanistan: First make the Taliban part of the power in Afghanistan, that is to put other parties and groups that are opposed to the Taliban in a position to accept the Taliban’s share of power. The second goal is to have a state entirely aligned with Washington’s goals.
Pir Mohammad Molazehi, Expert on Afghanistan Affairs
Strategic Council Online: Despite the passage of six months since Europe announced it was working on a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to create a direct trading line for Iran not based on financial transactions with Iran, neither Switzerland nor Austria nor Belgium nor even Luxembourg has yet accepted to host this financial institution. Recently, the IRI Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs stated that Europe is unable to register the SPV.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – With the introduction of Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet to the parliament to get a vote of confidence, the new Iraqi government was eventually formed after months of debates and challenges between Iraqi political groups.
Strategic Council Online: Drastic escalation of air, land and sea raids in the province of Hudaydah, in the west coast of Yemen and intensification of the military operations by the aggressor forces of Saudi-UAE coalition on the areas around port city of Hudaydah represent new decisions adopted over the past couple of weeks and implemented with the logistical support of the United States and France: Decisions based on the overall and imaginative strategy of Saudi-Emirati alliance in order to take over the capital city of Sanaa on the one hand and on the other hand, the decisions that have targeted getting concessions under the current political circumstances in the peace talks.
Strategic Council Online – Afghan parliamentary elections were held on October 20 and 21, amid Taliban threats and attacks. However, the conditions under which the elections were held were not very favorable due to the differences of opinion between the ruling establishment comprising the two groups of the national unity government headed by President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Strategic Council Online: US-China trade war has entered a new phase in which Chinese refineries have stopped importing oil from the United States and have no intention to resume importing oil from the US.
Strategic Council Online – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member countries as well as his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts on the sideline of the UN General Assembly to discuss the formation of an ‘Arab-Hebrew NATO’ as well as Iran’s activities.
Strategic Council Online: The Middle East continues to live in a transitional and unstable situation. At the same time, the will of the main regional and some international actors appears to be more focused on resolving the existing crises rather than moving towards creating the new crises.
Strategic Council Online: The relationship between the United States and Europe has become somewhat complex since US President Donald Trump came to power with various issues involved.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Foreign policy analysis is valid when it evaluates decisions based on the information and circumstances prevailing at the time they were made, not on the basis of outcomes that only become apparent after the crisis has ended.
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.