By Yiğit Saner The question of how the war against Iran will reshape relations between Tehran and the Gulf states has become one of the most critical issues on the West Asian agenda. From the very first day of the war, Iran targeted American bases in the region as well as Gulf territories from which attacks against it were launched. ...
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran As military tensions among Iran, the United States, and Israel have intensified in recent weeks, growing attention has been directed toward the role of major powers in managing the crisis. In this context, China—one of Iran’s most important strategic partners and simultaneously a major actor with extensive interests across the Middle East—has adopted ...
By Yunus Emre Özgün As the Transatlantic security architecture buckles under the weight of an impending ‘economic tsunami,’ the United States faces a brutal domestic reckoning over its unconditional support for Israel. In an exclusive interview with UWI, former CIA analyst and US State Department’s counterterrorism planner and advisor Larry J. Johnson dissects the shattering of American unipolarity, the devastating ...
By Michael Roberts * Last week, crude oil prices in Asia hit a new high at $125/b amid reports that the US was considering military action against Iran to break the deadlock in peace talks. The global average oil price also reached $113/b, the highest since the post-COVID pandemic slump in 2022. In the end, Trump backed off (for now) ...
The war, which began with the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, is currently in a period of ceasefire. What follows remains highly uncertain. A process full of fluctuations and contradictions continues to unfold. What is certain, however, we are at a stage to be able to grasp what has happened so far and draw some conclusions. The ...
The American empire seems to be sinking deeper into a quagmire of war with Iran, with only bad options on the horizon. Donald Trump is now being urged to resolve this disaster as quickly as possible. Perhaps the decisive factor is that the war has begun to strain the lives of Americans. Once again, the lesson of “economy, stupid” resurfaces, ...
By Serhat Latifoğlu The threat by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent by sending letters to 2 Chinese banks threatening sanctions if Iranian money found is a manifestation of the US’ military desperation and defeat. It is already evident that sanctions to be imposed on China will prove futile, much like those imposed on Russia. The most concrete proof of this ...
UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan gave a presentation on the consequences of the Iran/US-Israel war and possible future developments at a conference titled “Energy and the Global Economy: Its Significance and Impact in the Aftermath of the Ukrainian and Middle East Crises” organized by the Russian House International Relations Club in Mumbai, India. We present Güzaltan’s speech ...
The war, which began with the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, is currently in a period of ceasefire. What follows remains highly uncertain. A process full of fluctuations and contradictions continues to unfold. What is certain, however, we are at a stage to be able to grasp what has happened so far and draw some conclusions. The ...
The Turkish Psychologists Association (TPD) has exposed the blatant double standards of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA). While the EFPA cites “political neutrality” regarding Israel’s military aggression in the Middle East, its previous expulsion of Russia over the Ukraine conflict reveals a deeply rooted selective morality within Western-centric scientific institutions. As the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East ...
By Serhat Latifoğlu US President Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz laid the foundations of the petrodollar system on February 14, 1945, during their meeting aboard the USS Quincy. It was based on a very powerful formula: oil and dollars in exchange for security. The US would provide military guarantees to the Gulf countries; in return, oil trade would be done ...
By Edvard Chesnokov, from Moscow / Russia Alexander Sharov is the head of RusIranExpo, a famous B2B-firm aimed at pushing trade between Moscow and Tehran. Having visited Iran hundreds of times, Mr. Sharov can be considered as an expert in the import-export dimension of trans-Caspian partnership. Exclusively to our website, he commented on the economic impact of the 2026 American/Israeli war ...