US President Donald Trump (L) disclosed that he has addressed a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) suggesting talks on the nuclear issue, Washington, March 5, 2025 Through the past three year period, Moscow claimed that it faced an existential threat from the US-led proxy war in Ukraine. But in the past …
Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ moment with Iran
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , Tehran (Undated file photo) A senior US official told Washington Post that the toned-down early morning Israeli strike Saturday on military targets in Iran was a “proportional strike,” which “was moderate enough to quiet the conflict without provoking Iran into a counterattack.” However, …
Iran will hit Israel, ball is in US-Israeli court
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian (forefront) secured vote of confidence from the parliament for the entire list of cabinet nominees, in a rare display of unity, Tehran, August 21, 2024 There is a Zen proverb — ‘If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.’ All the show of contrived enthusiasm by the US …
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Iran finesses its deterrence strategy
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas appointed Yahya Sinwar (2nd from left) as its political bureau chief on August 6, 2024 .The latest Israeli spin has it that Iran cannot make up its mind whether to retaliate or not for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 28 while on a visit to Tehran …
US diplomacy gains traction in Middle East
Objects lighting up the sky above Jerusalem after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, April 13, 2024 With the outbreak of Israel’s Gaza war six months ago, a narrative mushroomed in the morass of the low, soft marshy land of geopolitics that the United States is caught in a quagmire that would compel its …
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Decoding Iran’s missile, drone strikes
The building described as ‘Mossad Headquarters’ in Iraqi Kurdistan with underground facilities for conducting covert operations hit by Iranian missile attack, Erbil, Northern Iraq, January 15, 2024 The stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours and Tehran taking the extraordinary step of …
US embarks on proxy war against Iran
Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits through the Suez Canal towards the Persian Gulf , November 4, 2023 A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and …
Why Biden lied on Gaza hospital attack
US President Joe Biden hugs Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu upon arrival at Tel Aviv airport, October 18, 2023 White lies are often uttered to protect someone or deflect the upsetting truths. The US President Joseph Biden’s white lie obfuscated the horrific truth about the Israeli missile attack on the Baptist church in Gaza on Tuesday …
The West sees Iran in a new way
A drone exploding over a Defense Ministry workshop in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, on January 29, 2023 The Wall Street Journal reported from Tehran on Wednesday that “a lethal crackdown and an ailing economy have quieted anti-government street demonstrations … organised protests have largely tapered off.” The paradox is, this interpretation is widely applicable …
Russia-Iran relations take a quantum leap
When the US National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan first spoke about a potential Iran-Russian drone deal, Moscow kept quiet and Tehran issued a pro forma rebuttal, which, taken together, suggested that it is a work in progress. Sullivan’s disclosure appeared at the fag-end of a White House briefing for President Biden’s forthcoming West Asia tour …
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