India’s ouster from Chabahar is not really a Pakistani victory

8 Aug 202012 Aug 2020

Posted originally to Express Tribune Blogs on 8 August 2020. Some in Pakistan opine that India’s ouster from a Chabahar-related project in Iran is either a Pakistani foreign policy victory…

The Houthis: A new challenge to Israel’s interests in the Red Sea region and Arabian Peninsula

18 May 20207 Jul 2020

Posted originally to Press TV on 18 May 2020. Over five years and billions of dollars’ worth of imported weaponry have gone to waste for Saudi Arabia in its war…

How a Subtle Turkey-Iran Entente is Helping Iran Secure a Firm Presence in Syria

18 Apr 202018 Apr 2020

Posted originally to MintPress News on 24 February 2020 as Part 3 of a 3 Part series on the evolved geopolitical scenario in Syria. In stark contrast to their positions…

Russia and Iran’s Clashing Visions for Syria’s Future

18 Apr 202016 Nov 2020

Posted originally to MintPress News on 7 February 2020 as part of a 3-Part series on the evolved geopolitical scenario in Syria. Rivals of the West in their own right,…

Wealthy Gulf States Plan to Spend Big to Coax Syria Away from Iran

18 Apr 202029 Jun 2020

Posted originally to MintPress News on 31 January 2020 as Part 1 of a 3-Part Series on the evolved geopolitical scenario in Syria. Since the dawn of the 2011 Syrian…

The New Contours of the Power Struggle for Syria’s Future – Three Part Series for MintPress News

3 Mar 202013 Mar 2020

Part one: Wealthy Gulf States Plan Big To Coax Syria Away from Iran Part two: Russia and Iran's Clashing Views for Syria's Future Part three: How a Subtle Turkey-Iran Entente…

Emerging Turko-Israeli Rift Helps Turkey-Iran Entente

23 Jan 202027 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…

The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil

11 Dec 20199 Jun 2020

By Agha Hussain and Whitney Webb, for MintPress News, posted on 10 December 2019. KIRKUK, IRAQ — “We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we’re…

How Russia’s vision for the Middle East is rigged against Iran

22 Oct 201924 Feb 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…

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…