Geoeconomics as the Most Important Arena of Great Power Competition
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.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.
Strategic Council Online: In case of establishment of the ‘Club of Sanctioned’ the effectiveness of the sanctions tools, including synergies between the economies of the sanctioned countries, by using techniques such as expanding multilateral pacts, creating alternative financial messengers for SWIFT and initiating new financial platforms make these countries immune from US trade sanctions.
– Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mousavi / Political Economy Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
– Amir Hossein Arabpour / International Political Marketing Researcher, Office of Economic Diplomacy Studies, Imam Sadegh University
Strategic Council Online: President the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, pointing to the four-decade of US sanctions on Iran said: “Iranians will honorably leave behind the sanctions again and the United States will not achieve its goal.”
Strategic Council Online: If a coalition of countries under US sanctions and in trade war is forged with the primary aim of maintaining free and fair trade; then the coalition can be formed with the help of countries involved in a trade war who are eager to maintain bargaining power against the United States and even extend its scope to more countries.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher on Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: In recent years, one of the very interesting bilateral relationships has been the one between New Delhi and Tehran. While New Delhi has significantly strengthened its strategic ties with the US, it has ensured that economic links with Tehran do not suffer. India has had to do a balancing act not only between US-Iran but also Saudi Arabia-Iran and Israel-Iran. Apart from the US, both Saudi and Israel were uncomfortable with the New Delhi-Tehran relationship, New Delhi has persisted.
Tridivesh Singh Maini – New Delhi based Policy Analyst
Strategic Council Online: Reinforcement and boosting the morale of US troops and Washington’s humiliated regional allies in the aftermath of repeated defeats of their coalition in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine are among other goals of the United States in holding the Warsaw confab.
Strategic Council Online: The list of countries subjected to the US sanctions is getting longer and to the same extent Donald Trump’s trade war with economic powers is escalating further. The latest example in the list is the arrest of the chief financial officer of tech giant Huawei for allegedly breaking the US sanctions against Iran.
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher of Political Economy of Development
Strategic Council Online: Six months ago there was a lot of commotion in the psychological atmosphere of the society, and the prospects of Iran’s economy were very vague; of course it was not only Iranians who were waiting for the US President Donald Trump to announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
Reza Majidzadeh – Researcher, political economy of development
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says Iranians stand united against US pressures and “we are trying to overcome these problems with due regard to our resources and facilities, the assistance of the friendly countries as well as mechanisms being formulated by the European Union.”
Strategic Council Online: President of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Dr. Kamal Kharrazi says one of the reasons that Iran is not prepared to enter into dialogue with the current US government is because the US administration does not adhere to its obligations.
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei underlined that the results of Iran-Russia cooperation in Syria showed that they can fulfill common objectives in difficult arenas.
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 – Note: Middle powers such as India, Turkey, Australia, and some Persian Gulf countries are no longer marginal actors, but are redefining global power equations through balancing diplomacy.
Strategic Council Online – Note: In today’s global politics, the creation of narratives has become as important as territorial control and economic management, and has turned into the main tool of great power competition.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Hamas’s handing over the civilian management in Gaza is assessed as an attempt to reduce political pressures, facilitate reconstruction, and preserve the status of resistance in the future equations of Palestine.