Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has linked Gulf prosperity to a single critical decision: whether to continue hosting US and Israeli military forces that are conducting operations against Iran. His message, delivered more than a month into the conflict, reduces the complex regional situation to a clear and consequential choice. Tehran is making the argument that Gulf nations' economic futures depend on the political and...
Benjamin Netanyahu has a vision for the Middle East that is sweeping in scope and long in timeline. He sees the current conflict with Iran as a historic opportunity to fundamentally alter the regional balance of power — diminishing Iran, potentially changing its government, and creating a more secure environment for Israel and its regional partners. It is an ambitious, principled vision built on...
Iran's military declared Gulf energy installations as legitimate military targets on Wednesday after Israeli forces struck the South Pars gasfield — the world's largest...
President Donald Trump has announced a "historic" $300 billion project to construct a new oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville, Texas. This facility,...
In his most aggressive rhetoric to date, President Donald Trump has warned Tehran that any further retaliation would lead to the total destruction of...
The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new supreme leader represents the convergence of two powerful sources of authority within the Islamic Republic: the...
The Iran conflict has raised profound questions about the future of collective security arrangements in an era of domestic political polarisation, great-power competition, and...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted with measured significance that the escalating conflict in the Middle East has, paradoxically, increased the global value of what Ukraine...
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf is one of the most consequential figures in Iranian politics, and his trajectory tells a revealing story about how the IRGC has...
The Iranian government is simultaneously suppressing its reformist opposition at home and pursuing nuclear diplomacy abroad — a combination that illustrates the deep contradictions...
President Isaac Herzog of Israel has maintained his independence in reviewing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pardon request, clarifying Thursday that Donald Trump's attack characterizing...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that the United States aims to conclude the Russia-Ukraine war by June and has proposed hosting the next...
In remarks challenging recent diplomatic narratives, Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has warned Parliament that American efforts to control the Arctic island continue unabated....
