Category: Politics
How Iran’s Infrastructure Leverage Can Change Washington’s Post-Hormuz Calculus
Professor Foad Izadi’s strategy is not retaliation—it is a preemptive final warning: destroy Gulf oil and water assets before the US can secure them. We test this ‘Game of Chicken’ with payoff matrices. Will Washington risk a two-year economic collapse, or will it pause?
Western Assumptions Shattered as Chabahar Unified Command Unveils Tech and Artisan Offensive Along the Makran Frontier
By Aveek Sen Ballalzai CHABAHAR — For decades, Western analytical frameworks operated under the rigid assumption that Iran’s governance was a neatly separated machine: hardliners…
Vatican Hands Iran Its Highest Diplomatic Honor: A Direct Rebuke to Trump
In a stunning diplomatic move, Pope Leo XIV has awarded Iran’s ambassador to the Holy See, Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari, the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, the Vatican’s highest active diplomatic decoration.
Is Iran Losing the Caucasus? Signals of a Regional Shift
Armenia’s shifting foreign policy and regional realignments signal major changes in South Caucasus geopolitics and Iran’s role.
Iran’s New Diplomatic Offensive: Winning the Bypassing Trump: Iran Speaks Directly to the American People
In a striking shift, Iran has launched a coordinated diplomatic initiative aimed squarely at the American people—bypassing Washington’s political establishment entirely. President Masoud Pezeshkian’s open…
Mearsheimer: Trump and Netanyahu Would Hang at Nuremberg
John Mearsheimer on the US-Israel war on Iran:
“If there were Nuremberg trials where Israelis and Americans were brought before the court, President Trump along with Prime Minister Netanyahu and many of their advisors would be hanged. This is a genocide.”
A Thousand Years of Darkness: Iran’s Resistance Is Not an Accident
In recent weeks, as US and Israeli airstrikes have devastated residential areas across Iran, a small faction of Iranian expatriates has celebrated the destruction—openly declaring their alliance with foreign powers to achieve regime change. But their joy reveals not strength, but desperation. Drawing on a thousand-year-old lesson from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh—the cautionary tale of Zahhak, the foreign tyrant invited into Iran by those who sought power—this analysis examines why Iranians have never forgotten that inviting the foreigner in leads not to liberation, but to centuries of darkness. As the United States and Israel discover that their hoped-for quick victory will not come, Iran’s historical consciousness and national resilience are proving that a nation built on millennia of awareness does not surrender.