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Trump Secures Iran Deal With Eye On New Middle East – OpEd

Trump Secures Iran Deal With Eye On New Middle East – OpEd

Even in the darkest hour of the US-Iran standoff since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it was never lost on perceptive

10.07.2025 3

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NATO’s Mega Spending Pleases Trump – OpEd

Viewed through the Cold War prism, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s decision at its recent summit meeting at the Hague

07.07.2025 3

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France Seeks A Role In Iran Situation – OpEd

On July 1, did you hear the crunching sound of ice cracking on the frozen lake of Russia-France ties? President

03.07.2025 3

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The End Of Justice In Mexico? – OpEd

By Sergio Martínez On June 1, 2025, Mexicans were called to vote for judges, magistrates, and Supreme Court justices. It

02.07.2025 5

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Trump Flip-Flops On Iran, Again: Why? – OpEd

The US President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post on Iran nuclear issue reads as follows: “Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris

02.07.2025 4

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A Tyranny To Remember – OpEd

By Lawrence W. Reed Armed with weapons and a monopoly on the use of legal force, one man (or woman)

27.06.2025 7

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Trump Won’t Brook Opposition To Peace Talks With Iran – OpEd

As the 12-day war ends in the Middle East, it is abundantly clear that the conflict erupted almost entirely due

27.06.2025 2

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Middle East In Crisis – OpEd

The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices

24.06.2025 7

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Putin In Reflective Mood Muses On US-Iran Confrontation – OpEd

The US President Donald Trump who sought President Vladimir Putin’s active help a fortnight ago to mediate in the negotiations

21.06.2025 2

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Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ By Iran: Who’s Listening? – OpEd

Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex

19.06.2025 3

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Middle East In Crisis: Netanyahu’s War On Iran Has No Future – OpEd

An unnoticed undercurrent of the Israel-Iran war is that three Christian nations in Europe — UK, France and Germany —

17.06.2025 7

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The Fed Is Powerful: That’s The Problem – OpEd

By Matthew Blakey Whenever the Federal Reserve releases its meeting minutes, a crowd of analysts rush to dissect every comma

14.06.2025 9

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Middle East In Crisis: Why Did Israel Jump The Gun? – OpEd

The Israeli Defence Forces called the aerial attack on Iran by some 200 planes in the early hours of Friday,

14.06.2025 7

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US Snubs India’s War On Terror – OpEd

The Indian media reports make out that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reception for the seven parliamentary delegations waging the war on...

12.06.2025 10

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Profiles In Courage: Trump And Eisenhower – OpEd

President Donald Trump had a difficult week. No, this isn’t about Elon Musk or Harvard University. On Wednesday, his call

07.06.2025 5

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Panda-Led Team Returns From Middle East – OpEd

The multi-party delegation led by the BJP Vice-President and spokesman Bijayant Panda which toured four countries in the Gulf region

05.06.2025 7

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Trump Won’t Walk Away From Ukraine War – OpEd

One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on

30.05.2025 6

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Putin Succeeds In Engaging With Trump – OpEd

The mystique of engaging with the US President Donald Trump will remain a hot topic. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s

26.05.2025 7

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Falling For Socialism – OpEd

Gen Z’s rage should be against cronyism, not capitalism By Lika Kobeshavidze Across college campuses, on TikTok feeds, and in

18.05.2025 7

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Russia, Ukraine Prepare For Peace By Getting Ready For War – OpEd

May 16 will stand out as a turning point, for good or bad, in the Ukraine conflict. The main thing

18.05.2025 5

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Trump’s Moving Finger Writes On Gulf: And Having Writ, Moves On To India-Pakistan – OpEd

President Donald Trump is already looming as a Colossus striding 21st century history. Acutely conscious that he’s left with less

14.05.2025 3

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Logic And Reasoning In The Time Of War – OpEd

One of the saddest things about India’s lurch toward transforming as a national security state through the past decade since

10.05.2025 20

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Minerals Deal Resets Geopolitics Of Ukraine – OpEd

Moscow and Kiev have been vying with each other to curry favour with the new US administration. Just as Russian

05.05.2025 6

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India-Pakistan Tensions Show Signs Of Easing – OpEd

Time past is time present in India-Pakistan crisis. The ‘mediation’ by the United States from behind the scene on the

02.05.2025 20

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India Should Tread Warily On Battlefield – OpEd

In a timely reminder, even as Indians are demanding robust retaliation for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir, the

01.05.2025 10

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Trump’s Diplomacy Gains Traction, Silences Sceptics – OpEd

The US President Donald Trump is a lone ranger in international arena and a self-confessed practitioner of Prime Minister Narendra

28.04.2025 8

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US, Iran Take A Leap Forward In Trust Building – OpEd

With the foreplay over and US-Iranian talks commencing in Muscat on Saturday, a constructive engagement has begun in right earnestness.

14.04.2025 2

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Steve Witkoff’s Iran Mission Holds Seamless Possibilities – OpEd

The rubric of the US-Iranian talks slated for Saturday in Muscat turned into a vanity fair of sorts — whether

12.04.2025 4

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Russia And The US Made ‘Three Steps Forward’ After Two Days Of Consultations In Washington – OpEd

The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment

07.04.2025 4

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Trump-Putin Parley Is A Bit Under The Weather – OpEd

The Kremlin apparently came to the conclusion last week that it was about time to do some plain-speaking that US

05.04.2025 6

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A Third Way To End The War In Ukraine – OpEd

In an unguarded moment, perhaps, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out recently in an interview that the ultranationalist elements

30.03.2025 5

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Talk Of US-Iran War Is All A Load Of Baloney – OpEd

The air is thick with the prognosis that a military confrontation between the US and Iran is now just a

27.03.2025 6

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Modi Presents Himself On The Landscape Of History – OpEd

As an avid follower of Lex Fridman’s podcasts, I can say that his 3-hour interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi

20.03.2025 7

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Trump Hypes Up Tensions With Iran – OpEd

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis...

17.03.2025 5

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Trump’s Presidential Diplomacy Is Surging – OpEd

The US President Donald Trump by far outstrips any of his predecessors in post-cold war era in the transparency of

15.03.2025 3

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Trump Invites Putin To A Roller Coaster Ride – OpEd

The political optics of the joint statement issued after the US-Ukrainian talks at Jeddah on March 11 lasting nine hours is hard

14.03.2025 6

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Trump’s Ingenuity Vis-À-Vis Russia, Iran – OpEd

Through the past three year period, Moscow claimed that it faced an existential threat from the US-led proxy war in

11.03.2025 3

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US Puts Firewall To Protect Ukraine Deal With Russia – OpEd

The verbal shootout at the Oval Office last Friday brought out President Vladimir Zelensky’s fury that Donald Trump and Vladimir

04.03.2025 4

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Trump Takes On The ‘Collective West’ – OpEd

The dramatic scene in the Oval Office on Friday evening signals that  President Donald Trump is decoupling the US from the...

02.03.2025 3

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Spring Is In The Air In US-Russia Ties As Trump’s Revolution Gains Momentum – OpEd

What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the

17.02.2025 6

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Trump Talks The Talk With Iran, But Needs To Walk The Walk – OpEd

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, made a memorable speech to the stormy Labour Party annual conference in 2016, while

11.02.2025 5

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Trump Revives ‘Maximum Pressure’ On Iran But Adds A Message On US-Iran Deal – OpEd

France’s distinguished former career diplomat Sylvie Bermann, wrote an op-ed recently in the leading financial paper Les Echos that a new chapter

07.02.2025 4

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Meet Canada’s Next Prime Minister: The ‘Libertarian-Minded’ Pierre Poilievre – OpEd

By Patrick Carroll With Justin Trudeau stepping down, Canada is entering a turbulent political season. Parliament has been prorogued until March...

06.02.2025 5

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Netanyahu Entraps Trump In A Quagmire – OpEd

Seldom, if ever, one gets to pick up the threads of what one had written 3 days back as conjectures.

06.02.2025 6

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Trump Turn Is Bad News For West Asia – OpEd

On February 4, the international community will get to see President Donald Trump wading into the midstream of West Asia’s

04.02.2025 5

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Syria Enters New Era Amidst Uncertainties – OpEd

The appointment of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as Interim President on January 29 marks the

02.02.2025 5

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Russia-Iran Treaty Signifies A ‘Breakthrough’ In Ties – OpEd

Russia and Iran, as two immediate neighbours and great powers with a glorious history, had a difficult, chequered relationship through

26.01.2025 5

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Trump Bends The Arc Of History In West Asia (Part II) – OpEd

President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their key operative in the White House, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,...

20.01.2025 2

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Trump Bends The Arc Of History In West Asia (Part I) – OpEd

My one-week visit to Tehran to observe the presidential election last  June came as an eye-opener. I could sense beyond doubt

19.01.2025 4

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Trump Unveils The Greater America Project – OpEd

On Tuesday, at a press conference at his Florida mansion, President-elect Donald Trump took his gloves off, after showing monumental...

11.01.2025 6

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