Strategic Council Online: The Zionist regime by weakening and neutralizing the confrontation power of the Resistance in the Gaza Strip, is trying to create some peace of mind from the southern borders at the time of war in northern Palestine. But field developments and circumstances indicate that Israel is far from reaching the desired security level, and the Axis of Resistance, in contrast, is in very favorable conditions.
Mehdi Shakibai – Managing Director of Qods International News Agency
Strategic Perspective
Winners and Losers of Afghan Loya Jirga
Strategic Council Online: In a general assessment, it can be concluded that Mr. Ashraf Ghani played a successful game by holding the recent Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) meeting.
Pir Mohammad Mollazehi – Subcontinent Affairs Expert
Riyadh, Abu Dhabi Strive to Keep Influence in Sudan
Strategic Council Online: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are sensitive to any changes or political and social instability in the Afro-Arab countries, and they are always seeking to maintain the status quo. But this time about Sudan, they certainly have not sufficed to a mere opposition to changes by learning a lesson from the 2011 uprisings. Instead, they are trying to orchestrate the power transition in a way that their own interests are preserved and safeguarded.
Kourosh Fakhr Tavoli – African Affairs Expert
China’s New Approach Towards JeM Terrorist Group
Strategic Council Online: The security of projects in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) in Central Asia and South Asia has pushed Chinese authorities to restrict the activities of terrorist groups in the peripheral region.
Assadollah Kaveh – East Asian Affairs Expert
Saudi-UAE Intervention in Sudan to Prevent Muslim Brotherhood from Taking Power
Strategic Council Online: What happened in Sudan, or the issue that led to a coup or quasi coup d’état in this country, go back to a number of factors and reasons such as the ineffectiveness of the political system of Omar al-Bashir government, as well as his actions over the past few years on foreign policy among others.
Ahmad Bakhshi – African Affairs Expert
Russia’s Approach Towards North Korea’s Nuclear Issue
Strategic Council Online: While the Americans want North Korea to stop all its activities at once, the Russians have proposed a step-by-step approach to solve the problem. According to the plan, in exchange for partial halting of North Korea’s activities, part of the sanctions would be lifted by the United States and the parties could gradually achieve a comprehensive solution.
Shoaib Bahman – International Affairs Expert
Objectives of US Withdrawal from Arms Trade Treaty
Strategic Council Online: America’s Trump is creating a revolution in the current order of the world, so that it can reconsolidate its dominant position in the international system by relying on strong support, regulating the domestic infrastructures, strengthening the national economy and reducing the costs, and preventing emergence of a challenging competitor like China.
Dr Saeed Shokouhi – American Affairs Expert
Libyan Crisis Scenarios
Strategic Council Online: The scenario of the West’s intervention and the presence of European armies in the Libyan soil are among the assumptions cited in some analyses because as pointed out by experts on North African affairs if Libya’s oil-rich resources fall into the hands of Muslim groups and popular organizations, European governments will inevitably begin to engage in direct military intervention in Libya; Of course, such an assumption seems highly unlikely considering the problems the West is now facing.
Jafar Ghanadbashi – North African Affairs Expert
In Case of Sarraj Defeat
Libyan Oil: Strong Support for Realization of ‘Deal of Century’
Strategic Council Online: Libyan oil and gas wells are an important factor for the West and certain Arab countries to advance the ‘Deal of the Century.’ Libya is a place for dispute between Islamists and their opponents, and foreign actors here play different roles. The adventures of General Haftar against the legitimate government under Fayez al Sarraj speak of a disturbing future for Libya.
Amir Mousavi -Former diplomat and expert on Arab countries of North Africa
New Chances in Ukraine Elections
Strategic Council Online: In the following analysis, the fate of the people of Ukraine, as a result of the wrong decisions of its politicians over the past two decades, and the country’s becoming a toy in the rivalry between international powers, Russia on the one hand and the US and EU on the other hand will be addressed.
Hassan Beheshtipour – Expert on Eurasian Affairs