More: Iran
Strange Allies: North Korea-Iran Relations
A Communist nation and a Conservative Islamist Republic- the friendship between North Korea and Iran couldn't be more strange. How did it develop and...
Ukraine joins Afghanistan and Yemen in shaping Gulf rivalries
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a geopolitical watershed. Its shockwaves continue to reverberate and are magnified by the wars in Ukraine and Yemen.
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Taliban are running-in a 3 Front War
Taliban fighters have been engaged in fighting in three parts of Afghanistan, as hostility was amplified on the Afghan-Iranian border by Iranian troops as...
Israel’s Ukraine conundrum may have implications for Gulf states
Middle Eastern states see their ability narrow to walk a fine line in the Ukraine conflict. Israel is a case in point as tensions...
Iran capitalises on Central Asian vacuum created by the Ukraine war
Anti-Iranian protests in Afghanistan and the stabbing of three clerics in Iran threaten to cast a shadow over Iranian efforts to capitalise on the...
Yemen: Is There an End in Sight?
The conflict that has plagued Yemen for the past ten years has become yet another source of proxy warfare between Iran and Saudi Arabia,...
Back to Normalcy: Azerbaijan’s Evolving Foreign Policy
The past several years of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy were quite eventful. Its relations with the three big players, Iran, Turkey, and Russia, have been...
Why U.S. is giving greater priority to the Iran Nuclear Deal
In recent weeks, Washington has been showing greater urgency and flexibility, with regard to the revival of the Iran Nuclear Deal/ Joint Comprehensive Plan...
Rail Diplomacy between Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran
In a world of interdependence, geo-economics has become the essential thing for extending cooperation. Most of the countries have started to use nontraditional types...
Ukraine may force Middle Eastern rivals to upgrade their toolkit
Struggling to remain on the sidelines of the 21st century’s watershed war in Ukraine, Middle Eastern nations are discovering that they may be fighting...