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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

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

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 2

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

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

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

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

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 5

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Europe Isn’t The Real Threat To Ukraine Peace But UK – OpEd

The Biden Administration has not given up on Ukraine war. A meeting of the Ramstein Format Meeting is scheduled to take place in Germany on...

08.01.2025 2

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US-India: Diamonds Are Not Forever – OpEd

The US state department disclosed on Thursday in an accounting of gifts received from foreign leaders during 2023 that Prime Minister Narendra...

05.01.2025 7

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Kyiv Plays Games With Russian Gas Transit – OpEd

The dataset by the Brussels-based think tank Brugel aggregating the data on European natural gas import flows and storage levels puts in...

04.01.2025 2

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Putin Weighs In On The Syrian Situation – OpEd

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public...

23.12.2024 4

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Who’s Afraid Of George Soros? – OpEd

The raging controversy over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s allegation that the Congress Party leadership is hand in glove with the famous US...

12.12.2024 8

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A Defining Moment In The Ukraine War – OpEd

The Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement on Thursday regarding the two attacks by Western long-range weapons on Russian territory...

09.12.2024 6

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Tipu Sultan: An Indian Freedom Fighter Reviled By Both British Rulers And Hindu Nationalists – OpEd

The Indian freedom fighter Tipu Sultan (1751-1799) is glowingly described by his admirers as the “Tiger of Mysore” who died bravely fighting the...

03.12.2024 4

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Atlanticists Mobilize To Salvage NATO As Russia Toughens Its Stance – OpEd

The American film maker and philanthropist who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, George Lucas, once said, “Fear is the path to...

01.12.2024 4

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A Defining Moment In The Ukraine War – OpEd

The Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement on Thursday regarding the two attacks by Western long-range weapons on Russian territory...

25.11.2024 6

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Middle East Reacts To Trump’s Dalliance With Zionism – OpEd

The election victory of Donald Trump in the November 5 election is being perceived in the West Asian region with growing anxiety as presaging the...

15.11.2024 2

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Russia, India Are Early Birds As Pax Americana Is Ending – OpEd

The working visit of Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov to Mumbai and Delhi on November 11-12 has been in the cards for sometime....

13.11.2024 4

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Russia, China Figure Out Trump’s Landslide Victory – OpEd

One great paradox of our era is that the robustness of American democracy has come to be measured in coffee spoons in terms of the country’s...

08.11.2024 3

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Israel’s ‘Zugzwang’ Moment With Iran – OpEd

A senior US official told Washington Post that the toned-down early morning Israeli strike Saturday on military targets in Iran was a “proportional...

28.10.2024 5

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The India-Canada-US Triangle Merits An Honest Political Dialogue – OpEd

The rift between India and Canada over the killing of Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar has deepened into a first-rate diplomatic crisis...

18.10.2024 4

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Between Russia And Iran All Is Well That Ends Well – OpEd

The mystery about the hastily-arranged ‘working meeting’ between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian at...

16.10.2024 2

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The Arabs Are Transparently Displaying Their Crossover To Multi-Alignment In A US-Led Middle Eastern War – OpEd

Reuters reported on Friday quoting three sources in the Persian Gulf that the regional states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking...

14.10.2024 30

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India’s Jaishankar Braces For Pakistan Trip – OpEd

In the world of diplomacy, optics do matter, and therefore, the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s caustic remarks about what he hopes to...

11.10.2024 5

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Russia Aligns With Iran, War Clouds Scatter – OpEd

Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes...

09.10.2024 4

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Middle East Crisis Prompts Biden To Break Ice With Putin – OpEd

The US President Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t...

06.10.2024 10

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The Fog Of War Is Lifting In Ukraine – OpEd

The alignments of the endgame in the Ukraine conflict are surfacing as never before. If much remains in the realm of speculation still, that is...

29.09.2024 3

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Zelensky’s Victory Plan Is His Survival Kit – OpEd

Strana, one of the top online newspapers in Ukraine, which is banned in Russia since 2022, reported on Friday that Ukrainian leader Vladimir...

25.09.2024 3

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US-India: It’s A Chicken And Egg Situation – OpEd

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term in office is a legacy term marked by his ‘coming of age’ — taking bold decisions in foreign...

21.09.2024 4

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Ukraine War Turns Into Russian Roulette – OpEd

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with the US President Joe Biden in the White House on Friday with the question of the use of long-range...

18.09.2024 2

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Manipur Escalation Draws Attention To Myanmar – OpEd

The sharp escalation by the Kuki militants in Manipur has shaken up the Indian establishment but the ensuing jingoistic outcry in sections of the...

11.09.2024 2

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Ukraine’s Complicated History With Neighbours – OpEd

A bizarre geopolitical thesis in the Indian media recently characterised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent 7-hour trip to Ukraine via Poland as...

03.09.2024 8

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Iran Nuclear Talks Will Be In New Format – OpEd

Iran’s new foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in an interview with Japan’s Kyodo news agency on August 22 set the foreign policy compass under...

02.09.2024 3

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Iran Will Hit Israel, Ball Is In US-Israeli Court – OpEd

There is a Zen proverb — ‘If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.’ All the show of contrived enthusiasm by the US President Joe Biden...

23.08.2024 10

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Iran Finesses Its Deterrence Strategy – OpEd

The latest Israeli spin has it that Iran cannot make up its mind whether to retaliate or not for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on July...

17.08.2024 1

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Thailand Aborts The Color Revolution – OpEd

The curtain has come down on the abortive colour revolution in Thailand with the country’s Constitutional Court ordering the dissolution on...

09.08.2024 1

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Sheikh Hasina Was A Time-Tested Friend – OpEd

There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event. The caveat must be added right at the...

09.08.2024 3

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Iran To Hit Israel Hard With Smart Power – OpEd

Amidst the cascading tensions in the Middle East following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel and vows of  ‘revenge’ in...

07.08.2024 9

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Winds Of Change In India-China Relations – OpEd

There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his...

31.07.2024 5

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