Iran’s Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “used the Islamic concept of ‘Taqiyya’ to describe the regime’s decision to accept the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with the West. Taqiyya means the permissibility to deny or conceal one’s real beliefs to secure a worthy goal.” — iranintl.com, May 20, 2023. “Khamenei’s emphasis …

Building the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline from Russia to China is a rational decision that would have made sense even before the war, but the project will never be able to replace Russia’s decimated gas trade with Europe.Before its invasion of Ukraine, Russia sold over 150 billion cubic …

In his recently published bestseller “The End of Regime,” author and journalist Alexander Baunov analyzed the democratization of various autocratic systems. In this article for Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, he looks at German-Russian relations and asks what lessons from German history might be important in the future.It may be commonplace—on both …