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The Iran War: A product of American delusions and Zionist ambitions

The Iran War: A product of American delusions and Zionist ambitions

“We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down!” Adolf Hitler, On the eve of his attack on the Soviet...

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Dr Hassaan Bokhari

Brazil´s Lula Warns the Middle East War Will Not Stop at the Region’s Borders

Brazil´s Lula Warns the Middle East War Will Not Stop at the Region’s Borders

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that the escalation in the Middle East represents “a serious threat to international peace and...

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Eman Abusidu

A colonial choice: The Board of Peace, or the UN?

A colonial choice: The Board of Peace, or the UN?

A report presented to the UN Human Rights Council last month noted that Israel destroyed 92 per cent of Gaza’s housing units and displaced over 90...

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Ramona Wadi

Indonesia’s cautious response to the U.S.–Israel war on Iran

Indonesia’s cautious response to the U.S.–Israel war on Iran

After days of silence, Indonesia has finally issued a statement on the war between the United States, Israel and Iran. The response, however, is...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Governance in the rubble – why Hamas still holds Gaza

Governance in the rubble – why Hamas still holds Gaza

A recent Reuters investigation citing internal Israeli military assessments offers an unexpected snapshot of post-war Gaza administration – one that...

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Ranjan Solomon

Trump Disappointed, Iran Resolute: Leadership Amid War

Trump Disappointed, Iran Resolute: Leadership Amid War

Donald Trump said he was “disappointed” by Iran’s choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. The remark was vintage...

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Jenny Williams

Starmer’s self-defence fudge: The UK’s growing involvement in the Iran War

Starmer’s self-defence fudge: The UK’s growing involvement in the Iran War

Wars can distract, and for leaders in political purgatory, they can be particularly useful.  It remains to be seen whether the UK’s increasing...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Response to Mr. Zulfikar and Ms. Aryanti: Palestinian lives matter

Response to Mr. Zulfikar and Ms. Aryanti: Palestinian lives matter

I am intrigued by the writing of Mr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Ms. Shafa Kalila Aryanti  titled “Indonesia’s cabinet secretary is sanitizing...

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Aloysius selwas taborat

Pressing challenges facing Egypt as a result of the Iran war

Pressing challenges facing Egypt as a result of the Iran war

Public concern in Egypt is rising over the continuation of the Israeli-American war on Iran, amid fears of economic repercussions and difficult...

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Mahmoud Hassan

Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution

Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution

The election of Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran represents far more than a simple...

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Chaos without a goal: Why Washington’s war on Iran looks like a dangerous fiasco

Chaos without a goal: Why Washington’s war on Iran looks like a dangerous fiasco

Washington acts like it knows what it wants from Iran, but it is moving in the opposite direction: a war without a clear goal. There are many...

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Tamer Ajrami

When Tel Aviv decides, Washington fights

When Tel Aviv decides, Washington fights

American taxpayers are still hemorrhaging from the made-for-Israel war in Iraq, a war audaciously offered as one that would “pay for itself.”...

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Jamal Kanj

Hormuz: the world’s energy fuse

Hormuz: the world’s energy fuse

Off the coast of Fujairah, the scene is not dramatic so much as unsettlingly ordinary: tankers waiting, crews watching, port agents reworking...

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Alice Johnson

The war Iran prepared for: How Tehran is raising the cost of war

The war Iran prepared for: How Tehran is raising the cost of war

Iran is pursuing a multi-layered strategy—military, economic, political, and diplomatic—to raise the cost of war and prevent regime change....

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Calls for the reconfiguration of military arrangements in the Gulf region

Calls for the reconfiguration of military arrangements in the Gulf region

The former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani called for the formation of a strategic defence alliance bringing together...

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Thembisa Fakude

Indonesia’s cabinet secretary is sanitising genocide in Gaza

Indonesia’s cabinet secretary is sanitising genocide in Gaza

Indonesia’s cabinet secretary, Teddy Indra Wijaya, recently attempted to defend the government’s position on the situation in the Gaza Strip. His...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Berlin’s Police Chief has links to evangelical Israel lobbyists

Berlin’s Police Chief has links to evangelical Israel lobbyists

It is well known that Christian fundamentalists in the United States are among Israel’s most important supporters. It is also widely recognised that...

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Leon Wystrychowski

Banality cannot swim: Iran and evil on the high seas of empire

Banality cannot swim: Iran and evil on the high seas of empire

Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” is one of those concepts polite society cherishes because it flatters the audience. It reassures comfortable...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Israel’s strike on Iran has now triggered a multi-front missile crisis

Israel’s strike on Iran has now triggered a multi-front missile crisis

Since the night Israeli warplanes struck Tehran and killed senior Iranian officials, the region has lurched from retaliation to rupture — missiles...

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Controlling Iran’s skies does not mean the regime will fall to the ground

Controlling Iran’s skies does not mean the regime will fall to the ground

When Caroline Levitt says that the United States is “steadily moving toward control of Iranian airspace” within four to six weeks, she is talking...

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Karam Nama

Trump’s Doctrine: When War Becomes a Business Model

Trump’s Doctrine: When War Becomes a Business Model

The explosions now echoing across Iran, Lebanon, and parts of the Gulf are not merely the sounds of another Middle Eastern war. They also reflect a...

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Adnan Hmidan

The Epstein Files: Blackmail, power, and geopolitical shadows

The Epstein Files: Blackmail, power, and geopolitical shadows

The infamous Epstein files do not merely pulse with the sordid details of one man’s depravity; they are the autopsy report of a dying moral order....

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

America First or Israel First? Trump’s Iran policy sparks important questions

America First or Israel First? Trump’s Iran policy sparks important questions

Donald Trump has made the “America First” doctrine central to his political campaign and presidency. His presidency has been presented as a...

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Jenny Williams

Bombs over classrooms: The girls the world forgot before International Women’s Day

Bombs over classrooms: The girls the world forgot before International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is often marked by speeches about equality and symbolic gestures celebrating women’s progress. But these rituals ring...

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Dr Ayşe Duran Yilmaz

Standing Between Missiles and Diplomacy: The Gulf’s Difficult Path to Prevent a Regional War

Standing Between Missiles and Diplomacy: The Gulf’s Difficult Path to Prevent a Regional War

The Arab Gulf states today find themselves in one of the most uncomfortable strategic positions in modern Middle Eastern politics. They are neither...

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Dr Ahmad Badri Bin Abdullah

Zionism’s grip over the world: From Epstein to Greater Israel

Zionism’s grip over the world: From Epstein to Greater Israel

What do the US Congress, Nicolás Maduro, the riots in Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the destruction of Syria have in common? Zionism and Israel have...

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Sarmad Ishfaq

Mojtaba Khamenei and the meaning of revolutionary continuity

Mojtaba Khamenei and the meaning of revolutionary continuity

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the central figure in the country’s political and religious...

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Ranjan Solomon

Shatter Iran, inherit the whirlwind

Shatter Iran, inherit the whirlwind

There is a dangerous, academic notion currently haunting the halls of Washington and Tel Aviv: the idea that a fractured Iran, carved into a...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Loony bin rationales: The continuing war on Iran

Loony bin rationales: The continuing war on Iran

Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues.  The rationale for this illegal...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Power, justice, and the struggle for order in the Middle East

Power, justice, and the struggle for order in the Middle East

The escalating confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran is often interpreted through the narrow prism of security threats, nuclear...

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Eko Ernada

Care packages, brought to Palestinians by colonialism

Care packages, brought to Palestinians by colonialism

Nickolay Mladenov, former UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Affairs and now High Representative for the Board of Peace, is no stranger to...

05.03.2026 40

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Ramona Wadi

Al-Quds Day – Frequently Asked Questions

Al-Quds Day – Frequently Asked Questions

The Al-Quds Day has been commemorate for almost 50 years on the last Friday of Ramadan, around the world.  Can you tell us more about the London, the...

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Islamic human rights commission

The War Being Rewritten… and the Lesson No One Wants to Learn

The War Being Rewritten… and the Lesson No One Wants to Learn

Opposing a war on Iran is not an emotional stance, nor is it an alignment with Tehran’s theocratic regime—a regime that has been cruel enough to...

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Karam Nama

The War on Iran: America at the Center of the Storm

The War on Iran: America at the Center of the Storm

As the region continues to endure the escalating Israeli-American war against Iran, international calls to halt the confrontation are growing louder....

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

A deal was on the table. They bombed it

A deal was on the table. They bombed it

On the morning of 28th February, I woke to an emergency alert telling everyone in Qatar to stay indoors. Moments later came the sounds, blasts,...

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Dr. Zarqa Parvez

The General Who Swallowed His Truth

The General Who Swallowed His Truth

General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a private warning to President Trump with the bluntness that democracies depend...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran Betrays His Central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran Betrays His Central Promise

In international politics, starting a war is often easier than ending one. History has repeatedly shown that great powers can pull the trigger with a...

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Peter Rodgers

The Trump cadaver’s latest Iran war

The Trump cadaver’s latest Iran war

When people from abroad ask me what’s going on with Trump’s second term, I tell them that he is unlike other US presidents who were strongly...

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Peter F. Crowley

Instead of defeating China, Trump is accelerating its rise on the global stage

Instead of defeating China, Trump is accelerating its rise on the global stage

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has...

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

How US-Israel’s war on Iran may impact Indonesia’s economy?

How US-Israel’s war on Iran may impact Indonesia’s economy?

The new round of conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran is not a distant story confined to the Middle East. It carries immediate risks...

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Bhima Yudhistira

When humanitarian aid and death are intertwined in Gaza

When humanitarian aid and death are intertwined in Gaza

Humanitarian aid for Palestinians has always been a macabre game which the international community has played so well, to the point that aid and death...

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Ramona Wadi

Going native in the Trump jungle: How it became legal to attack Iran

Going native in the Trump jungle: How it became legal to attack Iran

The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump.  While...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Why Iran and Lebanon matter, and who shapes what comes next

Why Iran and Lebanon matter, and who shapes what comes next

The Middle East stands again at the lip of an abyss, and the tremor is not regional – it is global. The reported killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader...

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Between Palestine and Iran… Zelensky reveals his inconsistent values and alignment with imperialist policies

Between Palestine and Iran… Zelensky reveals his inconsistent values and alignment with imperialist policies

In the complex landscape of international politics, consistency of principle often forms the foundation of a leader’s moral authority. For Ukrainian...

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Ahmed Asmar

Hizballah’s Last Stand: Disarmament, Defiance, and Tehran’s Shadow Over Lebanon

Hizballah’s Last Stand: Disarmament, Defiance, and Tehran’s Shadow Over Lebanon

As Lebanon approaches parliamentary elections in May 2026, the country stands at a crossroads. Hizballah, the mighty image of Lebanese politics and...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy

The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy

The martyrdom of Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei does not represent the end of an era, but the transformation of the Islamic Revolution into an even deeper,...

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

The attacks on Iran are by no means a victory “for civilisation”.

The attacks on Iran are by no means a victory “for civilisation”.

The Iranian dictator is dead, his repressive regime is being bombed into submission, and now the world can look forward to peace and stability. It...

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Nabila Ramdani

War on Iran: Zionist Strategy and the Machinery of Muslim Collusion

War on Iran: Zionist Strategy and the Machinery of Muslim Collusion

For three days now, Iran has been under sustained bombardment. American and Israeli military power — long rehearsed through sanctions, covert...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Can Indonesia mediate a US–Iran war?

Can Indonesia mediate a US–Iran war?

Indonesia’s recent offer to mediate between Washington and Tehran might sound ambitious — but numerous factors suggest it is aspirational optics...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Roguish justifications: The apologists for the attack on Iran

Roguish justifications: The apologists for the attack on Iran

February 28, 2026.  Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter.  A gross violation of international law.  As usual, a violation...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark