SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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 – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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 – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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 – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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 – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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 – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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 – Interview: An expert on Europe affairs, saying that the energy crisis was very prominent in the annual meeting of the European Parliament, added: Providing a large part of the targeted energy has caused European countries to speak from a position of power with regard to Russia.
Strategic Council Online-Interview: An expert on international issues, stating that China is trying to announce that the American model of development and security is not the only model presented at the international level by presenting initiatives for global development and security, said that Iran should consider the positive aspects and unique opportunities that it can have in the framework of these plans and follow them based on the principle of balance in the field of foreign policy.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international economic analyst, while explaining the alternatives for Russian gas about which the European Commission has conducted negotiations for the coming winter, said: Europe can reduce its dependence on Russia by using those alternatives and realize a cut in its dependence on Russia up to 2025.
Strategic Council Online – Guest Opinion: The United Nations was founded on the ruins of the World War II; that is to say, exactly where its predecessor, the “League of Nations”, lost its place in the international system and stopped existence due to its inability to prevent wars between great powers.
Mehdi Khanalizadeh – Researcher on international relations
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that most countries in the world have not followed the anti-Russian sanctions after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Now the question is what was Russia’s strategy to circumvent the sanctions and how successful has it been?
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of political economy of development
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: From late Trump presidency and particularly during Joe Biden’s tenure of office, Taiwan has become an issue for spiraling tension between Washington and Beijing. A process of tension has already begun, the culmination of which may lead to an unwanted war between the two countries.
Dr. Tahmouress Gholami, Expert of the U.S. affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and due to the security vacuum created, the terrorist activities of the ISIS in that country have taken an upward trend.
Mohammad Jalali Fard and Mohammad Reza Farhadi – analysts of regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs said: The line-up of the leaders of the Israeli parties to dominate over the levers of power and eliminate each other from the political arena has intensified on the eve of the Knesset elections.
Strategic Council Online—Interview: The African issues expert said about the political crisis in Libya intensifying due to disagreements in the governance of this country that “the differences that have been manifested in the Libyan capital once again have two different faces, the public face and the hidden face.”
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Commenting on the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Algeria, which is also his first visit to that country, an expert on Europe affairs said: The visit is of special importance; because of the special relations that existed between France and Algeria in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The escalation of verbal and strategic tensions between Turkey and the Israeli regime, although not increasing the likelihood of direct war, indicates the formation of a new order in West Asian geopolitical rivalries.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Recent developments in the political geography of West Asia, from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf to missile and drone activities in the Red Sea and the recent warning by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, regarding the threat to freedom of navigation, indicate a key pattern shift; the US-Iran war has moved beyond the scope of a regional and local confrontation and has linked two vital passageways for the global economy: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The Ukraine war was not merely a European crisis, but rather the starting point for the rearrangement of the global balance of power and a shift in the strategic behavior of great powers.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Great power competition is now pursued more in trade, currency, technology, and global supply chains than on the battlefields of military confrontation.
Strategic Council Online – Note: By disregarding Iran’s deterrence capabilities and political economy leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has reached a strategic deadlock from which military means are unable to extricate it.
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.