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Iran crisis: A high-stakes bet on who blinks first
Two sets of
US government cables suggest that Iran hawks in and outside the Trump
administration appear to have the upper hand as European countries give
hardliners...
How U.S.-China trade deal is going to impact Iranian oil exports?
U.S., and China are going to sign a trade deal, which is expected to ease the tensions between the two economic rivals and push...
Assassination of Qassem Solemani: Strategic American Re-course
For Iran,
international sympathy dissolved all very quickly. Ukrainian International
Airlines 752 was downed by a surface to air missile; moments after it took off
from Tehran....
EU, U.S. and Japan agree on new ways to strengthen global rules on industrial subsidies
In a Joint Statement issued
today, representatives of the European Union, the United States and Japan
announced their agreement to strengthen existing rules on industrial subsidies
and condemned...
United States Presence in Indian Ocean: Counter Strategy For China
In 1890,
Alfred Mahan affirmed, that “whoever controls the Indian Ocean will dominate
Asia, the destiny of the world will be decided on its waters” .In...
Time to Put the Old Dog Down? Debating the Future of NATO
The North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) celebrated its 70th anniversary and after the long passage of
time, it is almost as if the alliance has become...
The clash between Iran and the United States after Soleimani’s death
“Operation Martyr Soleimani” began on the night of
January 8. The leader of the Pasdaran Al Quds Brigade had died on the night of
January 3.
Some...
No winners in any war
In a rare accident during my last year’s trip to India, a cobra managed
to sneak into a jaguar’s enclosure in one of the country’s...
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...
All is well: Alice Wells is visiting Pakistan soon
United States
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice
Wells will visit Pakistan from January 19 to January 22. She is...