Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an unusually direct appeal to the American public, academics, students and journalists, declaring that Iran has prevailed in the seven-month war with the United
The telephone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 8 came as a surprise. Neither the American nor the Indian side has thrown light into
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the political equivalent of Oroshnik hypersonic missile Wednesday to scatter the recent pot shots by hawkish factions at the Russian ‘power vertical’, never a unified construct
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The excitement over the US-Saudi nuclear deal has proved to be short-lived. Apparently, the US President Donald Trump himself poured cold water into it by adding a caveat within 24 hours on
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The Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s choice of the New Indian Express editor Santwana Bhattacharya for his first major media interview after assuming office 50 days ago comes as no surprise. Both
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Delhi’s attempt to play the Shia card to moderate the Iranian disquiet over our ‘forever honeymoon’ with the Israel-UAE-Bahrain axis failed to impress Tehran. It was a clumsy attempt but was, arguably,
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The transformative phase of politics in Kerala shifting away from ideological paradigms surged with the announcement by the state BJP President Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday that Thiruvananthapuram would be home to one of
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The authenticity of the public articulation of the stunning proposal of an alliance by Majlis speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf — ‘regional bloc’ — built around an Iran-China axis in the Middle East is not
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Make no mistake, Modi Government is squarely blaming the US for the attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz killing seven Indian sailors. Protests have been lodged with the US charge d’affaires twice
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Narratives in international diplomacy are best formed through an organic process as the variables in any given situation get played out in the fulness of time and a ‘new normal’ accrues as
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There is an inimitable French expression — ‘ennui’. I first came across it while reading Jean-Paul Sartre as a university student in Thiruvananthapuram in the mid-sixties. It roughly translates as a feeling
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China’s shock warning to the US President Donald Trump that his road to Beijing goes through the Strait of Hormuz has been an audacious move directly linking his planned visit to China
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Within six days of the Russian President Vladimir Putin rendering a forceful advice to the US President Donald Trump to abandon the path of war in Iran — in particular, any wild
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There is growing expectation in Tehran that the Islamabad talks with the US may open the door leading into the rose-garden. But footfalls still echo in the memory, as the US has
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The glaring differences between the United States and Iran notwithstanding, the talks beginning in Islamabad tomorrow have a fairly good chance of being a success. There is too much at stake, and
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Sections of the Indian media have spread misconceptions over the meeting convened by the UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Thursday 2nd April regarding the situation around the Strait of Hormuz. Some
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