ISLAMABAD / NEW DELHI — One year after the deadliest armed attack on civilians in the disputed Himalayan region in over two decades, the chasm between the official narratives of…
IRAN: Violations, Threats, Blockade Main Obstacle To Genuine Talks Says President Pezeshkian.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - The diplomatic channel between Tehran and Washington, fragile at the best of times, has devolved into a vortex of accusation, contradiction, and what Iranian officials are calling…
IRAN: The IRGC Seizes Two Israeli Ships In The Strait Of Hormuz Signal Escalating Maritime Confrontation Amid Fragile US-Iran Ceasefire.
TEHRAN, IRAN - Tensions in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors have sharply escalated after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy seized two commercial vessels and reportedly…
IRAN: The Touska Incident: Anatomy Of A Maritime Confrontation That Brought US–Iran To The Brink.
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD — On the afternoon of Sunday, April 19, 2026, the Iranian-flagged container vessel Touska was steaming through the northern Arabian Sea toward the port of Bandar Abbas.
IRAN: Strait Of Hormuz Closed Again – Iran’s Distrust Of US-Israeli Deception Fuels Escalation Amid Failing Lebanon Ceasefire.
TEHRAN - The rapid reversal of Iran’s position on the Strait of Hormuz, from reopening to reimposing strict military control within hours, has exposed not only the fragility of the…
IRAN-US-ISRAEL: The Chokepoint Gamble: Inside The U.S.-Iran Stand-off Over The Strait Of Hormuz.
TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - In the span of a single weekend in April 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow maritime corridor through which one-fifth of the world's oil supply flows,…
INDIA: The Fire That Burned In Namakkal: India’s Electoral Reckoning And The Defeat Of Modi’s Delimitation Bill.
The BJP's audacious plan to redraw India's political map has collapsed in Parliament, but the questions it raised about federalism, representation, and the north-south divide will define the next era…
IRAN: A New Order In Strait Of Hormuz – IRGC Navy Mandates Authorisation For All Vessels.
TEHRAN - The Persian Gulf awoke Friday to a carefully scripted paradox. As the IRGC Navy declared a "new order" granting it absolute authority over the Strait of Hormuz, the…
US-IRAN: US Escalates Military Presence With 10,000 More Troops As Iran Ceasefire Hangs By A Thread.
WASHINGTON, TEHRAN - The United States is dramatically escalating its military posture in the Middle East, deploying more than 10,000 additional troops even as a fragile ceasefire with Iran teeters…
RUSSIA: Russia, Iran, And The Fracturing Nuclear Order: Lavrov’s Doctrine And The Deepening Global Divide.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again placed Moscow at the centre of a rapidly escalating geopolitical confrontation, forcefully defending Iran’s “inalienable right” to uranium enrichment while…
