... Ansar Allah’s rhetoric—particularly in their condemnation of the Saudi and Emirati military intervention in Yemen, which they labeled an “unprovoked aggression” orchestrated by their common enemies, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel (referred to as the “Trio of Evil” discourse) to establish a strategic foothold in the Red Sea as part of a New Middle East project hostile to Arab interests—now became the all-dominant theme. The Palestinian solidarity campaign, “The Battle of the Promised Victory and Sacred Jihad,” permeated every policy sphere under the unrecognized regime, fully occupying ...
On November 3–7, 2025, a group of Russian experts on Middle Eastern affairs visited Israel. The visit was organized by the Embassy of the State of Israel in the Russian Federation
On November 3–7, 2025, a group of Russian experts on Middle Eastern affairs visited Israel. The visit was organized by the Embassy of the State of Israel ...
... what extent these ongoing changes will impact the stability of Israel’s position in regional politics.
It’s possible that Israel, having transformed internally and renewed its relations with the United States, will remain an outlier in the grand Middle East concert.
The fact that the system of relations between Israel and its main international partner is changing is no longer in doubt. The reason for these changes is not only material. As events in recent years have shown, the United States is capable of devoting resources to military and political support ...
... security landscape. The attacks have called into question the fundamental strategic presumptions that have served as the foundation for Gulf Arab state security doctrines for the past fifty years. With unpredicted consequences, such as divergent views of Israel and Iran, this is also compelling introspection at a challenging moment for the larger region.
Entanglement or Empowerment? New Security Paradigm for Gulf States
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East. RIAC Report
For decades, the fundamental strategic presumption among the Arab states of the Gulf has been that the United States is the ultimate guarantor. Washington has been seen as
key
to the security of the Gulf. The U.S. military presence ...
... continues or intensifies qualitatively with the involvement of other actors. This might involve a threat to European interests, a disruption of energy supply, and an unstable security crisis.
Israel and Europe: Union or Discord?
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East. RIAC Report
When Israel launched its first strike against Iran on June 13, most European responses were de-escalation appeals with implicit support for Israel. In a
conversation
with the Israeli president, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
described
...
... impotence of the United Nations Security Council incapable or reaching consensus among its permanent members on how to stop the Israeli strikes. It would also render misplaced Russia’s proposals regarding building a collective security system in the Middle East. The Russia-Israel relations would likely deteriorate even further. A major disruption of the global energy trade may trigger a global economic slowdown or even a recession that is clearly not in Russia’s strategic interests.
One cannot rule out that the ultimate ...
... regime, solidifying its power.
Finally, the strikes on nuclear facilities, along with the assassinations of Iranian scientists by Israeli operatives, may delay the progress of Iran’s nuclear program. However, considering recent developments, Tehran, which ... ... international oversight virtually impossible.
All in all, the strikes on Iran and the subsequent chain of events could usher the Middle East into a new phase of instability.
The article was submitted to the editorial office on June 23, 2025.
First published ...
... cloaked in diplomatic theater. Worse, it will go down as a day of infamy in international relations: a moment when negotiation was used not to resolve conflict, but to disguise premeditated violence.
Regime change blowback
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East. RIAC Report
What did Israel and the United States hope to achieve through this betrayal? Regime change? The total submission of a sovereign nation to a militarized settler state forged in 1948? Are we now expected to believe that post-regime change, Tehran will suddenly embrace ...
... “Axis of Resistance”, and the prospects for the development of Iran's nuclear program.
Speakers at the roundtable included: Andrey Kortunov, RIAC member; Viktor Smirnov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, Head of the Department of Israel and Jewish Communities at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Vladimir Sazhin, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS; and Ivan Bocharov, Program Manager at RIAC.
... dispute involving many external state actors.
Baghdad Faces Financial Crisis as South Pursues Oil Riches
Basel Haj Jasem:
Is Israel Repeating Iran's Mistakes in Syria?
The proposed southern federal region, which extends from the capital (Baghdad) to ... ... portions of oil profits.
Conclusion
The creation of a Shiite southern region is a powerful negotiating tool in the
“Greater Middle East”
mapping movements, as well as internal, regional, and even international political processes. Iraq's current political ...
