2026/09/25
SCFR Online – Opinion: The simultaneity of pressure on the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb has turned the geography of energy and shipping into a new arena for the emergence of new risks, costs, and leverage.
2022/07/17
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: The recent joint naval exercise between the United States and the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf once again put the issue of the future stability and security of the region in the spotlight.
Hossein Sayyahi – Researcher of international affairs
2019/07/24
Strategic Council Online: A university lecturer on geopolitics, arguing that the German and French positions on seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker (by Iran) were very wrong, emphasized: “The Europeans have shown that all their talks about INSTEX (Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges) and the creation of an open economic environment for Iran are unfounded and what they truly seek is to put pressure on Iran to make it surrender.