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Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Back in Control. That May Be Why Diplomacy With Washington Just Collapsed

Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Back in Control. That May Be Why Diplomacy With Washington Just Collapsed

The 60-day window created by the Islamabad Memorandum expired on Monday with no permanent agreement between the United States and Iran. The 14-point...

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After Mecca: The Rise of a New Middle East Security Order and Iran’s Strategic Dilemma

After Mecca: The Rise of a New Middle East Security Order and Iran’s Strategic Dilemma

The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan on 7 August may eventually be remembered as more than another...

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Abraham Offered Normalization. Makkah Offers Security

Abraham Offered Normalization. Makkah Offers Security

There’s a striking irony sitting inside this year’s diplomacy. Back on May 25, Donald Trump publicly pushed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan,...

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The Makkah pact is not a Sunni NATO — the Middle East is testing a security order of its own

The Makkah pact is not a Sunni NATO — the Middle East is testing a security order of its own

It took barely 48 hours for the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement to run into the question that will ultimately decide what it becomes: a historic...

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Walking the Tightrope Between Tehran and Riyadh

Donald Trump threatened Iran with another strike, then called it off within hours — at the request, he said, of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. He...

03.08.2026 40

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Beyond a ‘Muslim NATO’: Pakistan and the Middle East’s Emerging Security Order

For decades, I watched Pakistan’s military relationship with the Middle East unfold largely away from the headlines. Pakistani officers trained Gulf...

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Why Pakistan must choose active neutrality in the Iran-US war

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