Key Takeaways Iran has not submitted a response to the latest US proposal as multiple mediators continue efforts to narrow gaps between the United States and Iran. Both US and Iranian officials said on May 21 that nuclear weapons and the Strait of Hormuz remain the two “sticking points” on …

Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office last January, analysts have debated whether he is pursuing a sphere of influence strategy—an approach by which great powers divide the world into privileged blocs, with little concern for the interests or preferences of the smaller states that those blocs subsume. In the …

Several representatives of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUM) were detained in the Russian regions. According to various publications and Telegram channels, the detentions were held in Moscow, Saransk, St. Petersburg and Saratov, Mordovia and Karelia. On Wednesday, May 20, this information was partially confirmed: it became known about the …