Orinoco Tribune, July 25, 2026 — The Gulf states seek to build new ports, pipelines, and roads to allow them to export oil via new routes amid Iran’s closure of the strategic waterway. Borrowing from Persian […]

Aleena Im, New Eastern Outlook, July 25, 2026 — Iran’s strikes have exposed the Gulf’s energy security as a strategic Achilles’ heel, while the US-Iran confrontation is turning the region into a wider battlefield. As American […]

Turker Erturk, The Cradle, July 24, 2026 —  Ankara’s rising value to Washington is strengthening its regional hand, while exposing the limits of its confrontation with Tel Aviv.  In practical terms, neither Turkiye nor Israel […]

Hussein Askary, The Cradle, July 23, 2026 — The rush to bypass Hormuz leads back to the same problem: Every alternative route remains hostage to war, rival chokepoints, or political disputes. “The only alternative to […]

Abbas Hashemite, New Eastern Outlook, July 22, 2026 — The US–Israeli attacks on Iran have accelerated the Middle East’s transition from a US-led security order to an increasingly multipolar regional architecture, reshaping alliances and regional […]

Press TV, July 20, 2026 — The fresh escalation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States represents not an isolated incident of bilateral friction, but the latest chapter in a protracted saga […]

Lucas Leiroz, Strategic Culture Foundation, July 18, 2026 — The pause between the United States and Iran was merely the prelude to a new phase of the war. The recent resumption of hostilities between the United […]

Fereshteh Sadeghi, The Cradle, July 15, 2026 — The US-Israeli war on Iran has transformed the strategic waterway into a new flashpoint, placing unprecedented pressure on relations between Tehran and Muscat. Iran and Oman have […]

The Cradle, July 14, 2026 — Baghdad’s latest anti-corruption sweep extends further than previous campaigns, but how it was enabled and where it will lead remain unclear. For years, corruption arrests in Iraq were largely […]

Abbas Hashemite, New Eastern Outlook, July 10, 2026 —  Donald Trump’s decision to declare the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding “over” from Ankara, coupled with renewed military strikes on Iran, signals not merely a rhetorical escalation […]