Strategic Council Online: When Britons voted to leave the EU despite their leaders’ warnings, the dream of a “united Europe” collapsed for many politicians and intellectuals around the world, and today that London is preparing to depart the EU without an agreement, the basics of this political thought are losing color more than ever before.
Hamideh Safamanesh – International Relations Researcher
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.
Strategic Council Online: The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council does not enjoy sufficient capacity for regional and international influence; but in spite of the ideological and political differences, especially in relation to Iran, the six countries under pressure from the United States and Britain have been forced to maintain the appearance of the Cooperation Council and cover up their differences.
Hassan Hanizadeh – Middle East Affairs Expert