By Özgür Altınbaş Iranian political analyst and author Peiman Salehi commented on the ceasefire and Iran’s strategic gains. According to Salehi, the process initiated by the US and Israel with the goal of overthrowing the Iranian leadership failed due to Tehran’s asymmetric warfare model and its moves regarding the Strait of Hormuz. Salehi stated that Iran shifted the war from ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist After the past 37 days, the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict has moved beyond the battlefields and evolved into a phase that directly targets the resilience of nations. The harsh tone evident in U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest statements makes it clear that the conflict has moved beyond military targets, with the intention of systematically striking Iran’s energy ...
By Serhat Latifoğlu Following the attack on Iran by the imperialist US and Zionist Israel, Tehran quickly regrouped and regained both military and psychological superiority. Within just a few days, Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil prices back up to the $100 level for the first time in years, placing global energy supply concerns at the center ...
by Yunus Emre Özgün The mainstream narrative treats the current escalation in the Middle East as a localized, manageable crisis. It is not. What we are actually watching in real-time is the rapid, structural overextension of the entire Western bloc. To cut through the daily noise and diplomatic theater, I recently sat down with geopolitical analyst K.J. Noh. We broke ...
UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest to Russia Today French. Güzaltan discussed the latest developments in the war between Iran and the US/Israel, the significance of the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, and the possibility of a US “ground intervention.” We are sharing Güzaltan’s views with our readers. ————————————————————————-Mr. Guzaltan, good evening to you. Good ...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter to the American people, questioning whether Washington is truly putting “America First” or merely acting as a “proxy for Israel” willing to fight “to the last American soldier.” In the Wednesday message, which traces the roots of US-Iran tensions back to the 1953 coup while condemning recent bombings of Iranian infrastructure, ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The Strait of Hormuz has undoubtedly been a key choke point for energy and trade routes throughout history.However, at this point in time, Hormuz has become a full-fledged choke point; despite accounting for only 20 percent of global flow, it not only controls the flow of oil and natural gas but is also fundamentally reshaping ...
As the joint war waged by the United States and Israel—two nuclear-armed states, one of which possesses the most powerful military in the world—approaches its first month, developments on the ground indicate that none of the assumptions held by Washington and Tel Aviv at the outset of the conflict have materialized. The aggressor forces initiated this campaign against Iran without ...
By Yunus Emre Özgün The “rules-based international order” is dead. It has not been dismantled by foreign adversaries, but systemically destroyed by its self-proclaimed architects. As the Middle East teeters on the edge of a regional conflagration sparked by Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Washington finds itself cornered. ...
By Mohammad Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt Day after day, it becomes clearer to everyone that the war the United States and Israel are waging against Iran is not an easy walk or a swift military campaign. While the battles rage, the scope of the war expands, discontent grows, oil and gas prices are exploding, and fears of a severe ...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on March 22 that he is “absolutely convinced” that the alliance will be able to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Rutte stated 22 countries, including NATO members along with allies such as South Korea and Japan, are coordinating efforts to do that. Cem Gürdeniz, a retired Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy and one ...
We will present some tips that provide elements of analysis on the war between the United States and Israel against Iran and certain consequences that could arise from it: ...