The economic pressure being exerted on Iran by the United States is inflicting severe hardship on the population without materially changing the country’s core demands or preventing Tehran from challenging US operations
As missile alerts flash across smartphones in cities like Dubai and Doha, millions of Indian expatriates across the Gulf are confronting a new and unsettling reality: the region they once considered safe
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by Durga Velayudham The Strait of Hormuz has once again emerged as the Rubicon in Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran, a perilous threshold across which the contemporary superpower system appears increasingly inclined
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March 2026 has seen an unprecedented surge in attacks across the Eastern Mediterranean and the South Caucasus, with Iran and its proxies reportedly striking key military and energy targets in Azerbaijan, Türkiye,
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Ali Larijani is a figure of stark contradictions. He is at once a philosopher deeply versed in Kant and a politician accused of orchestrating some of the bloodiest crackdowns in modern Iranian
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Colombo-based Sunday Morning reports that Sri Lanka was unexpectedly thrust into the center of escalating hostilities between Iran, Israel, and the United States, after a US Navy submarine torpedoed the Iranian warship
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The stunning message from the first public message on Thursday by Iran’s new Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is that “The Strait of Hormuz must remain closed.” In seven words, he threw
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As the US-Iran war enters its 13th day, there are no strong visible signs of disengagement or exiting from the conflict. Both sides seem to be following a risky escalation strategy aimed
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Chinese-Canadian educator and writer Jiang Xueqin presents a stark interpretation of Middle Eastern geopolitics: that Israel may quietly benefit from a prolonged war that weakens the United States rather than a swift
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At the BRICS summit in South Africa in the summer of 2023, the group’s five member states made a bold decision: they invited five new countries to join. The move was greeted
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U.S. military strikes on March 12, 2026, targeted aircraft at Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Airport in Kerman, southeastern Iran, destroying several key Iranian-operated planes, including an Ilyushin IL-76 heavy transport. Imagery released by
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