#Zionism… Emerging Turko-Israeli Rift Helps Turkey-Iran Entente 23 Jan 202023 Jan 2020 Posted originally to Islamabad Policy Institute on 23 January 2020. Israel has long possessed a capacity to force, whether by design or by consequence, the upending of regional alignment dynamics…
#Zionism… Rapid GCC requests for US-Iran de-escalation recall who really wants the war 17 Jan 202023 Jan 2020 Posted originally to Express Tribune blogs on 17 January 2020. The Gulf Arabs’ urgent engagement with the US to urge de-escalation with Iran from the current crescendo reached after the…
#Zionism… Pakistan & the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 14 Dec 201917 Dec 2019 Co-authored with Mobeen Jafar Mir for Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI) on 13 December 2019. The upcoming ‘Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019’ going to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre…
Geopolitics… Awkward spat with WWE epitomizes bin Salman as a leader 5 Nov 201915 Nov 2019 Posted originally to Express Tribune Blogs on 5 November 2019. In recent news, the famous American World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is in a spat with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
#Zionism… The falsehood that is the ‘Persian-Arab conflict’ narrative 2 Nov 201918 Nov 2019 Posted originally to The Express Tribune Blogs on 2 November 2019. Discredited and archaic explanatory frameworks are superposed onto geopolitical conflicts and rivalries at the expense of accurate appraisal of…
#Zionism… How Russia’s vision for the Middle East is rigged against Iran 22 Oct 20194 Jan 2020 Posted originally to American Herald Tribune on 22 October 2019. Stanislav Ivanov writing for the prestigious Russian state-run Valdai Club recently described ‘Israel and most of the Arab countries’ as…
#Zionism… Netanyahu’s Election Loss: Reasons and Regional Consequences 22 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally as an issue brief to Islamabad Policy Institute on 19 September 2019. Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-year continuous stint at Israeli Prime Minister is coming to an end, with his…
Geopolitics… Putin’s ‘doubts’ on Iran’s alertness on ISIS: A reminder of Russia’s true alignment 13 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally to One World on 13 October 2019. Hesitancy persists among many in the media regarding owning up to just how radically different in some aspects geopolitical alliances in…
Geopolitics… Iran’s Israel-GCC-Russia Conundrum 6 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Israel-GCC-Russia vs Iran; resharing my January 2019 article for Regional Rapport where I predict some strategic changes within the very structure of the Syrian state Israel will through the GCC…
Af-Pak… Putting Pakistan’s ‘Israel Question’ into geostrategic context 18 Sep 201925 Oct 2019 Published originally by the Islamabad Policy Institute on 18 September 2019. Informed discourse on Israel, the Middle East and current geopolitical affairs pertaining to Israel is not stimulating the current…
