Iran’s regime was built to outlast any single leader, but Khamenei’s killing will trigger factional competition that could redefine the country’s future The announcement came on Saturday evening and spread with the speed of panic: Ali Khamenei, 86, Iran’s Supreme Leader for over three decades, had been killed in joint …

Donald Trump’s peace plan (or Witcoff’s plan) is deeply troubling for Russia and Ukraine and simply unacceptable not only for Russia, but even for Poland. And here I would like to emphasize that this plan is unsatisfactory from the point of view of objective (!) national interests, not the interests …

Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the world’s top oil and LNG exporters, find their critical energy infrastructure under fire Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Gulf states are now threatening the world’s largest oil and gas export hubs, marking a dangerous escalation from tanker harassment to direct attacks on energy infrastructure. The shift …