By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran After 40 days of all-out war and reaching a ceasefire position, we witnessed inconclusive negotiations between the Iranian and American sides in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Although regional countries and Pakistani officials are trying to continue the talks, from the experts’ point of view, the main factor behind the deadlock in the ...
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 Craig Murray What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? What if we are really witnessing, in the Middle East and more widely, a carefully constructed plan with very definite objectives? Has Trump in fact “planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway”, while flinging the chaff of ...
Panic in Washington and Tel Aviv We are witnessing that the US and Israel have failed to achieve the objectives they had initially set at the beginning of this war. This setback has also generated a palpable sense of panic both in Washington and Tel Aviv. In many ways, this is understandable, because while they launched this war seeking “regime ...
The war that began on February 28 with US/Israeli airstrikes on Iranian cities continues. The boundaries of the war, both in terms of time and geography, remain unclear. It is likely to prolong and spread… The conclusions from the first act; 1. The US/Israel failed to achieve their strategic objectives regarding Iran (overthrow of the regime, Color Revolution, ethnic uprisings, ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer A strike on Iran wouldn’t be “just another tough call” in foreign policy. It would be a line you don’t cross, the kind of decision that doesn’t merely change a policy, but exposes what a movement has become. Because the original emotional engine of MAGA wasn’t tax rates or think-tank doctrine. It was exhaustion. It was ...
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu It is not surprising that Indian Prime Minister Modi was welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport on February 25, 2026, as part of a two-day program that included his historic speech to the Israeli Parliament and a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. The most striking element of the visit was ...
By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt The Turkish proverb says that “when a clown moves to the palace, he does not become a king, but the palace turns into a circus.” This is the state of the rest of the world, especially the leaders and people of the Middle East as they watch Donald Trump’s acrobatic performances from inside the ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist In his first term, Trump was described as an “unpredictable leader” both within the US and internationally: He did not speak the international diplomatic language, did not use the readings of analysts, and pursued an unorthodox strategic approach rather than the maneuvers of experienced politicians. Trump is neither Bill Clinton, a graduate of Yale University, ...
By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt While criticism of American policy is increasing in the Arab world, and some like to raise expectations from the new American president, on the other hand, we see that the majority of Arab public opinion does not have great expectations, but rather great fears from Donald Trump, the new occupant of the White House, ...
By Adem Kılıç, political scientist, Türkiye During Trump’s first term as the US President between 2017 and 2021, Türkiye and the US had disagreements on many issues. During Trump’s first term, relations between Türkiye and the US were marked by periodic problems, ranging from the crisis over Trump’s letter to President Erdoğan to the Pastor Brunson incident, from the Halkbank ...
By Adem Kılıç, political scientist As the Middle East descends into chaos with Netanyahu’s uncontrollable moves, the question to be asked is who/who is responsible for the continued deaths of children and the use of hospitals, places of worship and technological equipment as weapons by turning them into booby traps. As of today, Israel’s occupation and genocidal war in Gaza ...