Middle Orient

Les Houthis ont juré de fermer le détroit de Bab el-Mandeb, vital pour le commerce de l’énergie, si les États-Unis continuent d’entraver la paix au Moyen-Orient. En réalité, l’enjeu n’est plus tactique. Il est civilisationnel. La maîtrise des détroits est le dernier rempart d’une souveraineté retrouvée pour les peuples de …

Désormais, il est clair qu’aucun accord ne sera possible – ni réaliste – sans l’influence russe. Quelle entrée en scène lourde de sens ! Le ministre des Affaires étrangères de l’Iran, Abbas Araghchi, s’est lancé dans une tournée diplomatique aux enjeux considérables à Islamabad, Mascate et Saint-Pétersbourg à bord du …

Iran has submitted a new proposal to the US that pushes for the reopening of Hormuz while postponing nuclear negotiations at a later stage. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Russia on Monday to revive stalled negotiations with the US, amid continued deadlock over the future of the Strait …

Key Takeaways Prospects for meaningful US-Iran negotiations remain low as Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and his inner circle continue to dominate Iran’s decision-making and oppose compromise. ISW-CTP assessed that in recent days, the IRGC has sidelined civilian officials and that Iran’s negotiating team lacks …

After more than a month of war and amid an uneasy cease-fire, Iran announced Friday that it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz for ships traveling a pre-approved route, while President Donald Trump vowed to continue a US blockade on Iranian ships. Both sides are still negotiating a deal to …

A leading objective of the US-Israeli war against Iran that began on 28 February and ended with a tenuous two-week ceasefire on 8 April was the destruction of Iran’s ballistic missile program. Despite thousands of unrelenting targeted strikes, Tehran reportedly still possesses much of its ballistic missile arsenal, and perhaps …

L’aide discrète de Moscou et de Pékin a largement contribué au renforcement de la riposte asymétrique de Téhéran, ce qui a affaibli la machine de guerre américaine. Alors que l’agression militaire israélo-américaine contre l’Iran, qui a rapidement dégénéré en guerre régionale, annonce une crise énergétique plus grave que celle de …

Key TakeawaysThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy attacked and likely redirected two vessels towards Iran on April 22, likely to enforce Iranian claims of sovereignty over the strait to disrupt global shipping and extract US concessions. The IRGC also may have redirected the two vessels in response to the …

The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against Teheran, which deliberately overlooks the events of 1953, when a joint U.S.-British effort overthrew the then secular Iranian government in …

Over the course of six weeks of war between Iran, Israel, and the United States, Saudi Arabia’s restraint has perplexed some onlookers. After all, the war almost immediately spilled into the Persian Gulf. Iran’s retaliatory attacks on infrastructure in Gulf countries—and then Tehran’s closure and Washington’s subsequent blockade of the …