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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

How the current Kashmir crisis presents a strategic opportunity for Iran

19 Aug 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Eurasia Future on 19 August 2019. India de facto annexed Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month and heightened military tussles at the border with Pakistan have…

Pakistan-Iran Ties: Mutual duties, requirements and objectives

1 Mar 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Eurasia Future, 27 February 2019.   A thorough misreading of present regional geopolitical circumstances, an ignorance of current shifts in alliances and quite possibly an encouragement from…