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The ‘great settlement’: Trump’s financial heist, Iran’s strategic heist
Donald Trump delayed when decisive action was required. He retreated from pressure points that gave Washington leverage. He weakened American bargaining power before securing American objectives. He......
Trump and Iran’s proxies: Transitional deals and risk of legitimizing the proxy doctrinePresident Donald Trump risks granting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) what it failed to secure through war: Renewed political legitimacy for its regional proxies, from Hezbollah in......
Iran after the war: Victorious or defeated, how will IRGC take revengeIf Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) emerges from this war as a partner in power or in control of its levers, then the United States will have waged a war against Iran only to end up......
Trump and Iran: Who is responsible for the mutilated war and the wrong calculations?The predicament facing US President Donald Trump in the confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran is no longer confined to the nuclear file, the postponed military strike, or the Strait of......
Trump-Xi summit: China gives neither green light nor red card on IranThe recent summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping did not merely produce trade and economic understandings. It also signaled a strategic truce between the world’s......
China’s long game and Trump’s Iran gambleIran is not the decisive factor in the reshaping of the balance of power between the United States and China, where regional wars and the files of oil, energy, and sanctions are turning into tools in......
Waiting or suicide: Iran’s choices narrow under Trump’s naval blockadeThere is a fundamental crisis in decision-making in Tehran and in Washington as a result of the shrinking space for saving face for both sides and the widening scope of risk should the decision fall......
Naval blockade flips the equation: Tehran suffocates while Trump seizes initiativeUS President Donald Trump has become less anxious, more focused, and more at ease with himself and his decisions, having concluded that the naval blockade imposed by the United States on Iranian ports......