... virtually the entire top leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran was assassinated.
The strikes against Iran were carried out primarily in the interests of Israel, a State that has historically ignored the NPT, while reserving the right to raise accusations concerning non-proliferation obligations against other countries. The United States, which supported this aggression, was one of the founding fathers of the NPT and remains to be one of its depositaries.
The cynicism of the situation lies in ...
... can pay the toll, or it can suffer another Great Depression. Those are the stark options. The U.S. can resume bombing on April 22, but it will sooner rather than later be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Ironically, the latest war began with accusations over nuclear weapons, yet the only nation ever to have threatened the United States with nuclear or “unconventional weapons” is none other than Israel. One need only listen to what convicted Israeli spy
Jonathan Pollard
admitted on this ...
Interview with Ivan Timofeev for Brasil de Fato and Forum Geopolitica
Despite Pakistan’s leading role in diplomatic mediation efforts between the US and Iran, Russia appears to be playing an important role behind the scenes. The visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (14–15 April) to Beijing—to whom many attribute the real driving force behind the negotiations in Islamabad—was accompanied by numerous telephone calls to his counterparts in Iran, the UAE, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It could...
Dmitriy Trenin: Trump’s announcement of a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following the failure of the first round of negotiations, amounted to a case of complete strategic incoherence
For a long time, when speaking of how European countries had, over the course of 75 years of U.S. hegemony, lost the ability to think and act strategically, it still assumed that such capabilities remained inherent to the hegemon—the United States of America. The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran calls this assumption...
“Cold Peace” with Iran and Economic Diversification
The United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have concluded a two-week truce. According to U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States has received a 10-point proposal from Iran that could serve as a working basis for negotiations.
Although the conflict cannot yet be considered resolved, and the ceasefire agreements may be temporary, it is already possible to recap interim outcomes including for the Gulf monarchies which managed to wait...
Dmitri Trenin: The new leadership will likely engage in less confrontation with the Brussels bureaucracy, but Hungary’s “sovereigntist” course can largely be expected to remain unchanged
The defeat of Viktor Orbán's party in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Hungary is being portrayed in EU countries as a significant geopolitical shift weakening Russia’s position in Europe. This view was expressed, in particular, by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
This is, of course, a clear exaggeration....
Locking the Market Before It Opens: The U.S. Strategy to Strand the Global South
On January 7, Senator Lindsey Graham announced that President Donald Trump had endorsed a draft sanctions bill against Russia, framed as pressure to end the special military operation in Ukraine.
The Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, backed by 84 senators and 151 House members, proposes a 500 percent tariff on countries purchasing Russian uranium. The 500 percent figure is designed to intimidate, not to collect.
Other...
Dmitriy Trenin: Eighty years after the end of the World War II, the main threat of an armed conflict once again emanates for us from Europe
The United States will not leave NATO. The president cannot do this unilaterally, and the Senate would not allow it. Trump is frightening Europeans, but his real goals are to shift the bulk of the financial burden onto Europe and to reduce America's military commitments. The shift is happening—grudgingly, but it is happening.
Europe cannot create its own military...
It is difficult to expect the “golden age” promised by Trump to emerge from the upcoming negotiations
Trump ultimately found a way out of the situation he had created for himself by embarking on the reckless venture of war against Iran. The threat of annihilating an entire civilization appears to have served as a cover for his withdrawal from the battlefield.
Indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington, conducted in recent months through intermediaries—primarily Pakistan, and, behind it...
The operation in Iran, where the United States expected to achieve success similar to Venezuela, turned out to be a poorly calculated action. Misconceptions about Iran assumed that the country was under the control of a single inpidual or group. However, the system formed over centuries within the country became a real challenge for the United States. In fact, the real problem for the US is not limited to the potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Rather, this issue is also connected with the...
