TEHRAN/WASHINGTON - A single message posted on X early Saturday morning crystallised a diplomatic standoff that has been simmering since the guns largely fell silent across the Gulf region last…
IRAN: Moral Authority In A Time Of War: Pezeshkian Praises Pope Leo’s XIV ‘Moral Stance’ On The US-Iran Conflict.
In a conflict increasingly stripped of diplomatic niceties and euphemisms, a single voice has cut through the fog of war with a moral clarity that has rattled chanceries from Washington…
IRAN: Iran-US Nuclear Deadlock Deepens As Tehran Rejects Pressure Over Uranium Enrichment.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON - The fragile diplomatic track between Iran and the United States appears increasingly close to collapse, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declaring that negotiations over uranium enrichment have…
IRAN-INDIA: BRICS 2026 Meeting, Araghchi Says US Empire In Decline, Iran Will Never Bow To Pressure.
TEHRAN, NEW DELHI - In a cavernous hall at the Hyderabad House, where the colonial-era architecture of Lutyens’ Delhi met the crisp banners of the BRICS 2026 summit, Iranian Foreign…
CHINA-US: Xi Warns Trump, Taiwan Could Become Flashpoint For Major US–China Conflict.
BEIJING/WASHINGTON - Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued one of Beijing’s starkest warnings in years over Taiwan, cautioning visiting US President Donald Trump that Washington’s continued political and military backing…
PAKISTAN: Imran Khan’s Vision Loss Claim, Medical Facts, Political Allegations, And A State In Denial.
ISLAMABAD — In a dramatic escalation of an already volatile political crisis, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Salman Akram Raja declared outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday that jailed former…
GAZA: “Gaza Belongs To Israel” – The Ordeal At Rafah, Inside Israel’s Border Regime Of Humiliation, Intelligence‑Gathering, And Forced Displacement.
RAFAH CROSSING/GAZA CITY, 13 May 2026 - For more than a year, the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip was sealed by Israeli military force, severing the…
UK: Britain’s ‘Defensive’ Hormuz Gambit: Drones, Jets And A Warship Join 40-Nation Mission As The World Holds Its Breath.
An Analysis Of London’s New Hormuz Security Deployment, The Shadow War That Made It Necessary, And Why A Mission Billed As “Credible And Independent” Is Already Raising Hard Questions From…
IRAN-OMAN: At The Crossroads Of Empire And Sovereignty: Iran, Oman, And The Legal Battle For The Strait Of Hormuz.
MUSCAT, OMAN / BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN — In the gilded corridors of a palace in Muscat this week, behind closed doors and far from the gaze of warships massing in…
UK: Britain’s Shadow War: The F-35 Loophole, Missing Millions, And The True Scale Of UK Complicity In Israel’s OPT And Gaza Assault.
LONDON/GAZA/OPT — On 2 September 2024, Foreign Secretary David Lammy stood before the House of Commons and announced what he described as a “robust” intervention: the suspension of around 30…
