In recent months, various factions of the Iranian regime have unanimously stressed that the regime’s legitimacy is not being challenged even as the turnout in the presidential election declines. For the international community, this low turnout is a sign of the regime’s instability. It calls into question whether negotiating with …

The United States (US) has now expedited its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, with the US Central Command officials saying that 4-6% of the process has already been accomplished with the full withdrawal deadline set for September 11, 2021 by US President Joe Biden. However, as the US leaves after two …

Agency was revealing on this point, though it merely confirmed centuries of understanding in politics: In our friends and foes, we mistrust. Having spilled such valuable beans, Snowden readied us for what should have been regarded as banal, even farcical. As Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists summarised, …