How will the balance between hegemonic military power and asymmetric deterrence play out? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist U.S. President Donald Trump’s political rhetoric—such as “mission accomplished,” “Iran has backed down,” and “victory has been achieved”—which he has been using since the early days of the war, has increasingly come into conflict with the military reality on the ground over ...
Millions of Iranians bid farewell to Khamenei By Gürkan Demir from Tehran / Iran At the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque For Iran’s martyred leader Ali Khamenei and members of his family, who lost their lives in the US and Israeli attacks, the funeral prayer was held on July 5 at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque in Tehran. After the religious ...
No holding deal between the US and Iran, the war in Ukraine facing expansion and continuing crises in Europe: The very basis of a 500-year-old order are being shaken, with uncertainty ahead. The old order has collapsed, and a new one has yet to be built. The tremors continue. No deal holds between Iran and the US The agreement between ...
Interview with Dr. Abed Akbari, an expert in international relations. By Azar Mahdavan from Tehran / Iran In the early hours of Monday, June 15, it was announced that Iran and the United States had reached a preliminary agreement. Yesterday, Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, and Donald Trump, the President of the United States, also finalized the signing of ...
For historians and analysts who always seek to explain events with methodological rigor, this war could be seen as marking the beginning of the end of the United States’ hegemonic power on the planet. In baseball slang, the dugout is the area where players, coaches, and authorized personnel who are not actively participating on the field rest. At the end ...
What is the latest situation regarding the issues discussed at the negotiation table? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The war that began around Iran’s so-called nuclear program has, after more than 100 days, evolved into a broad struggle that calls security doctrines into question and shakes both regional power balances and the deterrence architecture of the international system. The developments ...
And Israel is furious. By Abbas Djuma What Trump is trying to present as a personal achievement is nothing of the sort — not even close. The reality is actually the opposite. The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war. Before the war, no one was talking about unfreezing Iranian assets or lifting anti-Iran sanctions. Iran never had nuclear ...
Ultimately, the key to any permanent peace lies in the “permanent” defeat of the US and Israel, along with their regional proxies. “Trump is ready for a deal…” It’s perhaps the phrase we’ve heard most often recently regarding the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Iran. “Trump is good, but his team is bad…” With the start of Trump’s second term, ...
Posted by by United World International 8 Min Read June 11, 2026 Editorial note: The reported conference was conducted before the recent restart of attacks in the war – UWI. The ceasefire between Iran and the US remains in place for now, but it is still highly fragile. How does Iran view the negotiations? What is it hoping to achieve? ...
The question is no longer whether the Abraham Accords will survive or disappear, but rather how they will change under the pressure of the major transformations sweeping the Middle East. Like everything in the Middle East, the Abraham Accords are being tested by time, the weight of past conflicts, open-ended disputes, and seemingly endless wars. What began as a promise ...