Strategic Council Online – Opinion: While the disaster of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake has shaken Turkey, people of Turkey are going to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. All the opinion polls show that Erdoğan is in a tough competition with other rivals. The deadly disaster of the recent earthquake has added to Erdogan’s political and economic problems.
Mahmoud Fazeli – Analyst of international affairs
Strategic Council Online—Interview: Former Iranian ambassador to France said placing the Muslim community in this country within the framework of the radical Islamists and equal treatment with them are a big mistake by France, adding that this law will further provoke the Muslim community in France and will not entail the desirable outcomes for France.
Strategic Council Online – An analyst at the Center for Strategic Studies of President’s Office said that those in the US administration who think of Israel’s interests will be happy to see a military confrontation with Iran on the last days of the Trump administration, adding: Trump’s team is trying to push political relations of Iran and the United States to a point of bitterness and tension the severity of which would not allow Mr. Biden to formulate a successful diplomacy with Iran.
Strategic Council Online – Politics and power in the United States, due to their decentralized and distributive political structure, are influenced by the presence and activity of two groups of “formal” and “informal” actors. Formal actors are influential in the “decision-making” and executive stages, and informal actors are influential in the critical “decision-making” stage. Simply put, the United States is a place for showoff and display of various informal actors who are always trying to play an effective role in the political, economic, security, etc. arenas of the United States by considering their own interests. For example, when it is said that the president in the United States is the representative of oil and arms cartels, etc., it is not an exaggeration and refers to a phenomenon that has a long and lasting history in this country.
Hamid Khoshayand – International Affairs Analyst
Strategic Council Online – For the first time in eight years, the EU-based euro remittances have surpassed US dollar-denominated exchanges, according to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher in Development Economics