Middle Orient

The US wants to isolate Iran from the global economy. Here is who Tehran trades with, and how much is at stake. United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled a new wave of sanctions on Iran, branded “Operation Economic Outcast”, designating close to 60 entities, individuals and vessels and …

Alors que la guerre américano-israélienne contre l’Iran entre dans son sixième mois, l’attention se tourne vers la Chine et sa position dans ce conflit. Cependant, les calculs de Pékin ne se limitent pas à déterminer qui gagne et qui perd, mais portent davantage sur les répercussions de la guerre sur …

The American Middle East is finished. The regional order that has prevailed since 1991 has been one of the many casualties of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. The American and Israeli failure to dislodge the regime in Tehran has proved the bankruptcy of decades of sanctions and violence. The inability …

In launching its newly announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” the Trump administration’s primary beachhead should be the UAE, which has signaled a shift in the right direction but will need targeted U.S. help with cutting off illicit Iranian transactions. On August 19, two days after announcing that the U.S. memorandum of …

Why should Egypt be searching for a formula that would facilitate Hamas’s return to Palestinian politics? Should Egypt and the rest of the international community not instead be demanding that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad surrender their weapons, dismantle their military structures, and disappear from Palestinian political life? This new …

The Western commentariat filed the Mecca agreement under a comfortable heading. When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on August 7 — an armed attack on one to be treated as an attack on all — the reflexive label was “Islamic NATO,” a Sunni bloc, …

Key Takeaways:Control of the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab is reshaping the post-war political and security map of the Middle East and Horn of Africa, with pipeline and port projects expected to divert up to 60% of pre-war Hormuz oil traffic to alternative routes.Saudi Arabia has signed a mutual …

L’islamisme, le salafisme, le takfirisme, le djihadisme et le wahhabisme ne sauraient être appréhendés comme des dynamiques sociétales spontanées. Ils constituent, au contraire, les produits directs d’une stratégie hégémonique occidentalo-sioniste méticuleusement planifiée. Véritables forces de combat, ces courants ont pour objectif profond d’affaiblir, de dominer et de soumettre les républiques …

Cet article s’appuie sur une étude proposant une analyse prospective exhaustive de la vision de l’ayatollah Ali Khamenei concernant la gestion du conflit historique entre la République islamique d’Iran et les États-Unis. Ce texte présente la vision stratégique définitive de l’ayatollah Ali Khamenei concernant la confrontation entre l’Iran et les …

The Israeli strike on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase suggests that the dispute is no longer confined to the possibility of a Turkish military presence in Syria. It now forms part of a broader Israeli effort to define the limits of what Damascus may do as it rebuilds its army: …