By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist When discussing a U.S. ground operation in Hormuz, it would be misleading to view the issue solely through the lens of military capability. For the true determining factors are the constraints imposed by geography, Iran’s war doctrine, and the tension created by the interplay of these two with the U.S.’s global and Israel’s regional positions. ...
The war in Western Asia is beginning to ripple through Türkiye’s economy, testing the resilience of a country that sits at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East and shares a border region with Iran. For now, daily life appears largely unaffected. At a central Istanbul gas station, there are no visible signs of panic buying or shortages. Yet ...
By Umur Tugay Yücel Iran’s current capacity to resist the United States and to continue striking strategic targets cannot be reduced to a single reason. This capacity and sustainability certainly cannot be considered independently of Chinese and Russian support. The trade, payment systems, and defense collaborations that Iran has developed with China and Russia in recent years have significantly increased ...
From Rome / Italy A wave of anti-war protests is sweeping across Italy, as demonstrators take to the streets to oppose the government’s alignment with Western military actions against Iran. What began as mobilizations around domestic constitutional reforms has rapidly evolved into a broader political confrontation—one that now directly challenges the foreign policy of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italy’s ...
By Mehmet Yuva “Iran attacking neighboring Gulf Arab states is wrong!”, “Iran has proxy forces in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Afghanistan!” These claims are absurd. Because if a state is capable of ensuring the sovereignty, security, and subsistence of the people under its authority, no parallel proxy force can take root there. If, however, a state cannot fulfill ...
By Dr. Emre Senbabaoglu, International Law Scholar. In the war that began following the US and Israeli airstrikes against Iran on February 28, 2026, one of the most tragic incidents of the war occurred. A US Tomahawk missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in the city of Minab, Iran, and according to the latest reports, 175 people lost their ...
By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran In theories of international relations, one of the most fundamental transformations in the history of global politics was the transition from imperial orders to the system of nation-states. This transformation, which began in the seventeenth century following the Peace of ...