Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Iran.
On 14 June, as diplomats edged towards what could have become the most consequential USāIran understanding in years, a bomb fell on…
Like most of Americaās wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuās chances of reelection hinge on carrying on the war Hezbollah and keeping the fires burning with Iran.…
When the US-Iran conflict escalated earlier this year, the immediate concern centered on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz. But the…
This should not be a news flash to anyone, but the Trump Administration is out of control when it comes to war…
Donald Trump did not suddenly become a dove. He did not wake up one morning converted to the wisdom of Quincy Adams,…
In September 1507 the Portuguese conquistador Afonso de Albuquerque sailed his small fleet to a point off the coast of Hormuz Island,…
Analysts writing in publications as politically diverse as The New York Times, The Nation, and Pambazuka News have termed Washingtonās failure in its war against Iran…
Could it be that Israelās 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression -…
In mid-May 2026, an article by Mohammad Altaf Afridi, a former USAID program director in Pakistan, published in The Guardian attracted considerable…
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