SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In a situation where Western countries and the United States are not ready to take action to stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, apparently, the only concern they have is the freedom of trade and shipping in the Red Sea!
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – University professor
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Disputes have escalated within the Zionist regime after October 7; some people want to reduce the intensity of the war, and others believe that the war should continue intensively.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The impact of the war in Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu’s “political future” is one of the “important consequences” of the war in the internal arena of the Zionist regime. The war in Gaza will be the end of Netanyahu’s political life, who made many efforts to gain power in the last election.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Yemen is the most important front that has been opened against the Zionist regime parallel with the Gaza war and has been able to inflict strategic and important blows on that regime in field and non-field dimensions.
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on West Asian issues emphasized that now the US and Europe are extremely worried about the prolongation of the war in Gaza because this situation increases the gaps between public opinion and differences with their governments, adding that despite sending a large amount of weapons from Western governments as well as all kinds of support in international organizations, support for the actions of the Zionist regime has decreased in the public opinion of these countries.
Strategic Council Online-Opinion: Relocating the residents of Gaza out of occupied Palestine is one of the serious plans of the Zionist regime in the recent war in Gaza. The documents provided to the Palestinian resistance groups show that the Zionist regime has long been seeking to “relocate the people of Gaza” to Egypt and the residents of the West Bank to Jordan.
Hamid Khoshayand—Expert of regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on West Asia affairs, while stressing that as the war dragged on, the position of Europe and the US regarding the nonrealization of the declared objectives of the Zionist regime has become realistic to some extent, noted: The experience of asymmetric wars shows that destroying Hamas militarily by the Zionist regime is impossible.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: The Secretary of the Political Economy Department of the Iranian Association of West Asian Studies (IAWAS) said that the Zionist regime was the tenth destination for the export of Turkish goods in 2022 and noted: Although there are political tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the common economic and security interests have Turkey to maintain its bilateral relations with the Zionist regime. Erdogan cares about the ties with the Zionist regime.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The Al-Aqsa Storm was a response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian nation, which caused irreparable damage to that regime.
Hamid Khoshayand – Expert in regional affairs
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.