“There is no anti-Iran bloc in the Gulf, there is a complete fragmentation” By Yiğit Saner The question of how the war against Iran will reshape relations between Tehran and the Gulf states has become one of the most critical issues on the West Asian agenda. From the very first day of the war, Iran targeted American bases in the ...
Interview with Dr. Hamed Vafaei, faculty member at the University of Tehran and specialist in Chinese affairs By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran As military tensions among Iran, the United States, and Israel have intensified in recent weeks, growing attention has been directed toward the role of major powers in managing the crisis. In this context, China—one of Iran’s ...
Former CIA Analyst and the US State Department advisor Larry J. Johnson on US Imperial Overreach, anti-Zionist Backlash, Death of European Sovereignty, and Türkiye’s Geopolitical ‘Schizophrenia.’ By Yunus Emre Özgün As the Transatlantic security architecture buckles under the weight of an impending ‘economic tsunami,’ the United States faces a brutal domestic reckoning over its unconditional support for Israel. In an ...
Posted by by United World International 19 Min Read May 10, 2026 By Michael Roberts * Last week, crude oil prices in Asia hit a new high at $125/b amid reports that the US was considering military action against Iran to break the deadlock in peace talks. The global average oil price also reached $113/b, the highest since the post-COVID ...
Notes from a roundtable discussion at the Center for Iranian Studies in Türkiye. The war, which began with the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, is currently in a period of ceasefire. What follows remains highly uncertain. A process full of fluctuations and contradictions continues to unfold. What is certain, however, we are at a stage to be ...
Seven strategic lessons the war taught and the questions that remain. The American empire seems to be sinking deeper into a quagmire of war with Iran, with only bad options on the horizon. Donald Trump is now being urged to resolve this disaster as quickly as possible. Perhaps the decisive factor is that the war has begun to strain the ...
Under the current circumstances, the US’ sanction threats amount to empty rhetoric only. A new system has been built, and it will grow even stronger with the participation of numerous countries following the war in Iran. By Serhat Latifoğlu The threat by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent by sending letters to 2 Chinese banks threatening sanctions if Iranian money found ...
Speech held at the conference ‘Energy and the Global Economy: Its Significance and Impact in the Aftermath of the Ukrainian and Middle East Crises’, organized by the Russian House International Relations Club in Mumbai, India UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan gave a presentation on the consequences of the Iran/US-Israel war and possible future developments at a conference ...
Notes from a roundtable discussion at the Center for Iranian Studies in Türkiye. The war, which began with the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, is currently in a period of ceasefire. What follows remains highly uncertain. A process full of fluctuations and contradictions continues to unfold. What is certain, however, we are at a stage to be ...
Posted by by United World International 4 Min Read April 29, 2026 The Turkish Psychologists Association (TPD) has exposed the blatant double standards of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA). While the EFPA cites “political neutrality” regarding Israel’s military aggression in the Middle East, its previous expulsion of Russia over the Ukraine conflict reveals a deeply rooted selective morality ...
A multipolar world and a new financial architecture By Serhat Latifoğlu US President Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz laid the foundations of the petrodollar system on February 14, 1945, during their meeting aboard the USS Quincy. It was based on a very powerful formula: oil and dollars in exchange for security. The US would provide military guarantees to the Gulf ...
Interview with Alexander Sharov, head of RusIranExpo By Edvard Chesnokov, from Moscow / Russia Alexander Sharov is the head of RusIranExpo, a famous B2B-firm aimed at pushing trade between Moscow and Tehran. Having visited Iran hundreds of times, Mr. Sharov can be considered as an expert in the import-export dimension of trans-Caspian partnership. Exclusively to our website, he commented on the economic ...