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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has long cultivated a tough-guy persona, mirroring the combative and often bullying temperament of the American President who appointed him. However, newly leaked accounts...

By Jafar Sherdoost Every night, Leila is jolted awake by a familiar sound; a noise that resembles neither the wail of the wind nor the rumble of thunder. It is...

By Kamran Karami The Manama Dialogue, held from 31 October to 2 November, once again placed Iran–GCC dynamics at the forefront of regional political discourse. The remarks made by Arab...

Diplomatic shuttles have been busy on the Tehran-Muscat route lately, sparking the usual round of speculation: Are Iran and the United States about to start talking again? We saw Oman’s...

To get a handle on the tectonic shift rumbling through the UN Security Council, you don’t need a PhD in international law. You just need to have seen “The Terminal.”...

If you want to understand the Middle East, you sometimes have to leave the marbled halls of diplomacy and get into a taxi. I was reminded of this fundamental truth...

By Edvard Chesnokov In 1953, a Western-backed coup overthrew the legitimate Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Previously, the patriotic PM had sought to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC): a...

By Jafar Sherdoost In the grand, cavernous hall of the United Nations General Assembly - a chamber built on the fragile promise of dialogue over destruction - an empty chair...

The grand hall of the United Nations General Assembly, a chamber designed for the convergence of global voices, became the stage for a powerful silent protest on September 26, 2025....

A power shift has consolidated control of the Trump administration’s foreign policy under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, following an internal campaign that sidelined Presidential Envoy and longtime Trump friend,...