Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington

Russian president’s Special Representative on investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev had two days of consultations with US administration officials, Washington, DC, April 3, 2025 The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the …

Trump revives ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran but adds a message on US-Iran deal

US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum ‘reimposing maximum pressure on Iran’, White House, Feb. 4, 2025  France’s distinguished former career diplomat Sylvie Bermann, wrote an op-ed recently in the leading financial paper Les Echos that a new chapter of ‘transactional geopolitics’ has begun with Donald Trump.  Extremely unlikely events can be expected, metaphorically …

Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part I

An April 2023 satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC showing construction on an underground facility in the tangled mountains somewhere near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site which has been targeted by Israeli sabotage attacks multiple times Iran’s Islamic revolution is in transition   My one-week visit to Tehran to observe the presidential election last  June came …

Trump lame duck bodes well for international security

Volunteers load free groceries at a community food bank in the Crenshaw neighbourhood of Los Angeles, United States,  in July. (AFP photo)  The commencement of the lame duck period of the Donald Trump presidency is marked by the departure of two high-ranking officials of the US state department in the last two days. Secretary of …