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March 16, 2026, 03:14 PM - 7 min read
Trump did not make a public case for the war before it began, because he preferred quick, surprising strikes preceded by theatrical suspense.
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March 15, 2026, 06:22 PM - 11 min read
Although the supreme leader possesses disproportionate power, he is not the single authority. Instead, he is one of several positions and institutions through which the Islamic Republic’s 47-year-old regime organises its ruling structure.
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March 3, 2026, 05:33 PM - 5 min read
In current times and circumstances, diplomacy is and should not be guided or driven by supposed moral principles but by practical and pragmatic realities and necessities. India has no reason to take a high moral ground and that too for no reason, when being neutral serves the purpose better.
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March 2, 2026, 03:25 PM - 7 min read
If a 100 per cent Muslim country like Saudi Arabia does not have any moral or religious compunction to stand with the “Zionist” Israel, why should India? For India, national interest comes first above everything else. Israel has proved to be the most reliable friend to India.
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March 1, 2026, 08:23 PM - 4 min read
Prime Minister Keir Starmer clarified that while the UK played ‘no role’ in the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets, RAF aircraft are active in West Asia as part of ongoing defensive missions.
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March 1, 2026, 08:15 PM - 3 min read
Khamenei’s death, without a publicly designated successor, is expected to plunge Iran into political uncertainty and heighten concerns that the conflict could widen.
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March 1, 2026, 08:10 PM - 3 min read
Putin expressed deep sympathy over what he described as an assassination carried out in breach of fundamental legal and moral principles.
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March 1, 2026, 05:23 PM - 7 min read
Trump is setting a dangerous precedent by running over sovereign countries. He has already disrupted the global rule-based economic order with his unilateral punitive tariffs and now he is unsettling the global diplomatic regime. This must stop.
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March 1, 2026, 03:20 PM - 7 min read
Khamenei was both a political and spiritual leader. He has commanded followers not only among devout Shias in Iran, but also many Muslims across the wider region. His assassination will spur some of them to seek revenge, potentially sparking a wave of extremist violent actions in the region and beyond.
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February 13, 2026, 01:04 PM - 10 min read
Today, the Iranian economy is in poor shape, despite the oil revenues that hold it back from the brink of collapse. People are unhappy with high unemployment rates, hyper-inflation and never-ending sanctions.
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January 30, 2026, 03:46 PM - 8 min read
Iran is a “threshold state”—a country with the technical capacity to produce nuclear weapons but that has not crossed the final line of production. A destabilised threshold state poses three risks: loss of centralised command over nuclear material and scientists, incentives for factions to monetise or export expertise, and acceleration logic—actors racing to secure deterrence before collapse.
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January 25, 2026, 02:25 PM - 4 min read
Crucially, the Board does not even explicitly mention Gaza, the very crisis it claims to address. This is not a small omission. Gaza was the moral and political justification for the initiative. Removing it from the formal mandate points toward a shift from humanitarian responsibility.
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