Some transnational disinformation agencies have been insistently reporting on US preparations for an escalation of the conflict in West Asia and a new war with Iran. Assuming this is true, the agencies differ as to whether it will occur during the last week of October (before the Israeli elections) or at the end of the month and the beginning of ...
By Arman Ahmadi, International Affairs Researcher, from Tehran / Iran At first glance, the “Joint Defense Agreement” signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan in Mecca on August 7 might look like just another Middle Eastern security pact — three countries with powerful militaries, deep pockets, and long-standing ties to major powers coming together. But its significance can’t be measured ...
The 18th BRICS Summit held in New Delhi on September 12–13 has concluded. UWI author, historian, and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek was live guest on Türkiye’s Ulusal Kanal to assess the Summit. We are sharing Mehmet Perinçek’s answers to the questions on the broadcast with our readers. Hormuz and BRICS What came out of the BRICS Summit in ...
By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran The war involving Iran has entered a sensitive phase as its military developments coincide with two important electoral calendars in Israel and the United States. From this perspective, the war is no longer merely a military confrontation or a foreign ...
We have two important developments in the war in Ukraine. The first is CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s surprise visit to Moscow on August 26. The second is Britain’s role in the war, as witnessed by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s visit on August 24. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on an unannounced visit. It was also the first ...
Israel bombed the Abu al-Duhur airbase in the Idlib countryside of northwestern Syria on August 18, just 70 kilometers from Türkiye, citing the presence of Turkish troops as justification. On August 19, telling an army radio podcast, Netanyahu said that Israel had initially sent a message “in general terms” against a Turkish military presence at an airfield near Aleppo. “Apparently ...
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran, Iran Following the full-scale confrontation between Iran and Israel, the relative silence from Tel Aviv toward Tehran has become one of the most significant ambiguities in regional equations. Even during the military clashes between Iran and the United States in July—which occurred in the wake of the “Forty-Day War”—the Israeli government chose not to directly ...
The recent Mecca Agreement between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan has been presented as the beginning of a new regional security architecture. Yet behind the language of cooperation and deterrence lies a fundamental ambiguity: the alliance does not clearly identify the threat against which its members are supposed to act. For Alptekin Dursunoğlu, editor-in-chief of the Near East News agency, ...
The forty-day war that the United States launched against Iran on February 28, regardless of whether it reignites in the near future, has ushered in a new era in the regional security architecture of West Asia. The principal facts demonstrated by the recent war were, first, that Iran is not a country that can easily be eliminated or absorbed. Over ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist It is now impossible to define the current state of the U.S.-Iran conflict as, in the classical sense, “a war between Iran and the U.S.” The geography of the war has expanded from the Strait of Hormuz to Bab el-Mandeb, from the Red Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean following the attacks in Egypt, and finally ...