Opinions

1- Arash Azizi argues in The Atlantic that explaining the deadlock in U.S.-Iran talks as a simple clash between the IRGC and diplomats is incomplete and misleading.
2- Infighting inside the Iranian regime is real, but it does not follow a military-versus-civilian line. Instead, it revolves around conservative, technocratic, security, and parliamentary power centers.
3- According to the writer, the institutional balance currently leans toward supporting negotiations rather than sinking them, especially with the rise of Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as a central figure managing both war and diplomacy.

1- Arab nationalism, socialism, and political Islam promised transformation but ended in deep failures.
2- Political Islam, despite being the most recent, still obstructs stability and development.
3- New regional shifts are opening the door to a more open model balancing markets, faith, and stability.

There is a fundamental difference between victory and the story of victory. Victory imposes its terms all at once. A manageable defeat, by contrast, must be distributed across maps, capitals, files and vocabularies. That is precisely what Tehran appears to be doing now. It is not moving toward a single grand bargain bearing a clear signature with Washington. Such a bargain would look, at home, too much like surrender. So Iran is trying to break the deal into separate tracks. The nuclear file is pushed toward Moscow. The Strait of Hormuz is handled through Muscat, allowing Tehran to avoid appearing solely responsible for retreating from its own threat. De-escalation passes through the modest diplomatic room of Islamabad. Regional cover is arranged with Riyadh, Ankara and Cairo. Beijing remains the psychological reserve of strategic reassurance. This is not diplomatic chaos. Judging from Abbas Araghchi’s latest tour, it looks more like an architecture of exit.

1- The New York Times says the UAE is no longer just a financial partner for Washington. It has become a strategic pillar in the economy, technology, and investment, something the war has made even clearer.
2- The war with Iran showed that major Gulf investments, led by the UAE, cannot be separated from regional stability and the protection of the Gulf’s economic and security infrastructure.
3- The relationship between the UAE and the United States has moved beyond the traditional model and now requires a new framework that matches its real weight.

1- The group launched dozens of attacks despite earlier claims of weakness.  
2- It relies on small combat units and local arms production.  
3- Israel responds with an expanded ground invasion in southern Lebanon.