Reading tea leaves: US backs off support for regime change in Iran
An Iran hawk who advocated killing general Qassim Soleimani, US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered his diplomats
to limit contacts with militant Iranian exile...
Ripples of 1MDB scandal likely to complicate Malaysian ties to key Gulf states
Disclosures of taped phone calls
between embattled former prime minister Najib Razak and a person believed to be
United Arab Emirate crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed...
Iran plays chess, the US plays backgammon
Iranians
play chess, Americans play backgammon when it comes to warfare, military
strategy and conflict management.
That is
becoming increasingly obvious in the US-Iranian tit-for-tat on an Iraqi
gameboard.
Hobbled
by...
Soleimani’s death opens a door to alternative security arrangements in the Gulf
The US killing of Iranian general Qassim
Soleimani has further opened the door to a potential restructuring of the
Gulf’s security architecture.
In line with an Iranian...
Killing Qassim Soleimani: Rule of law or rule of the jungle?
International law may not be a major
consideration in debates about the US killing of Iranian military commander
Qassim Soleimani, yet the legality of the assassination...
The killing of Qassim Soleimani: The United States misreads the tea leaves
The killing of Iranian military leader
Qassim Soleimani proves the point: The United States has perfected the art of
strengthening Iranian hardliners fuelled by an apparently...
US military strikes in Iraq stir regional hornet’s nest
The United States stirred a hornet’s nest that stretches far beyond Iraq
when it this weekend attacked an Iranian-backed militia.
The fallout of the US strikes...
2019 was a decade of defiance and dissent -The 2020s are likely to be no different
Like 2019, the new year and perhaps the new
decade is likely to be pockmarked by popular protest, particularly in the
Middle East and North Africa.
The...
A symptom of fragile anti-US alliances: Russia accuses China of technology theft
Chinese
Russian military and geopolitical cooperation is flourishing – for now.
If, however,
the weapons industry is anything to go by, a fraying at the edges of...
Sports: A battlefield for freedom of expression and political change
Athletes, executives and fans are turning
sports in an era of defiance and
dissent into
a battleground for freedom of expression and political change, putting national
and international...