Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A Latin American affairs expert believes that, although the United States of America is trying to impose “new colonialism” on the Latin American region, a new form of resistance, protest, and nationwide uprisings will likely emerge.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In the midst of America’s military deployment to West Asia and the Persian Gulf, which has increased tensions at the regional and global levels, the Zionist regime has seized the opportunity and accelerated the advancement of its ambitious projects, including the process of the illegal annexation of the West Bank to the occupied territories.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The tariff war and currency competition have propelled the global financial order into a phase where each shock can represent both a threat to the dollar and an opportunity for the rearrangement of global trade.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Water is gradually transforming from the source of life into a lever of power in West Asia and could rewrite the region’s security map.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With the collapse of the last pillar of nuclear arms control between Washington and Moscow, the world stands on the threshold of a ruleless order that both carries the scent of unlimited competition and conceals within itself the possibility of new forms of bargaining.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: At a time when regional tensions are increasing simultaneously with the escalation of the Iran-U.S. confrontation, the Gaza file has entered a new and complex phase; a phase that is not merely military, but profoundly political, legal, and strategic.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Despite the rivalries and the negative, hostile relations between the United States and Iran over the past nearly five decades, the past year was the most tense period in relations between the two countries.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent years, relations between China and the European Union, particularly from the second half of 2025 to the beginning of 2026, have entered a new phase that can be described as a form of “cautious and pragmatic engagement,” one that is founded more on mutual non-harm than on deep strategic advancements.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The continuation of competition between the United States and China in the cyber and artificial intelligence domains without common frameworks, transparency, and normative constraints will not result in the victory of one over the other, but will instead lead to the erosion of global trust in the technology domain. A world where every platform is suspect, every algorithm is a potential weapon, and every piece of data can be considered a threat.
Strategic Council Online: The President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations stated: The current priority of the Islamic Republic of Iran in foreign relations is preserving independence, resisting bullying, and developing relations with our neighbors.
Strategic Council Online – Note: The Makkah Defense Pact can be seen as a sign of regional countries’ efforts to reduce security dependence on extra-regional powers and redefine the balance in West Asia.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war, by exhausting US military capability on one hand and strengthening European defense capacity on the other, has altered the balance of power in the European continent, cast uncertainty over NATO’s future, and is driving it toward a European NATO.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The dissolution of the SDF, although considered an achievement for Turkey’s security, does not put an end to the challenges arising from the Israeli regime’s aggression and expansionism, refugees, and Syria’s fragility.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Concurrent with the official commencement of the United States’ economic war against our country, focusing on sanctions instruments, isolation, and economic pressure, what has now become increasingly important is the lack of alignment of other major global powers, especially China, with this policy.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The new US sanctions against Iran, despite extensive propaganda, face serious obstacles to success due to the ineffectiveness of sanctions tools and opposition from some of Tehran’s trading partners.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Following military failure, Trump has announced the implementation of sanctions and old economic pressures under the new label of “unprecedented economic operation” against Iran; however, Tehran can neutralize this blockade through four specific strategies.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Two contrasting narratives of Trump’s foreign policy – one “crisis as doctrine” and the other a “coherent doctrine” – present a complex picture of America’s attempt to redefine its role in the international system.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Makkah Pact, signed between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey under the motto “an attack on one is an attack on all,” is viewed by some analysts less as a full-fledged military coalition and more as an attempt to reduce security dependence on an external power and to establish a regional security mechanism.