SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Under the status quo, where there is a possibility of change in the West’s approaches due to Trump’s arrival in the White House, Russia is unlikely to launch a nuclear response to the Ukrainian missile attacks.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: With Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, speculations about the impacts and consequences of his presence in the White House on the Gaza war have become the focus of political and media circles in the region and the world.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: Recently, the Washington Post published information according to which Congressman Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin, under pressure from the Biden administration, sold $18 billion worth of military weapons to the Zionist regime. Among them, 50 F-15 fighters have agreed. The cost of these weapons has been mainly financed over a few years by Washington’s annual budget of 3.3 billion dollars for Tel Aviv.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: In recent weeks, the verbal disputes between Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the Gaza war have increased. The tensions that have arisen are such that some international observers interpret it as a difference between America and the Zionist regime, and some talk about the first “rift” between the two sides in the last 76 years.
Strategic Council Online- Opinion: While the Gaza crisis and Israel’s inhuman behavior in dealing with the people of the Strip cast a shadow over all international issues and has become the biggest challenge facing the world community, the type and nature of America’s relationship with the Israeli regime and the impact of its actions on the global level and in different regions have also made the upcoming US elections a key and important issue in 2024.
Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri – university professor
Strategic Council Online – Note: Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the US Secretary of State has visited Saudi Arabia twice and met and conferred with the kingdom officials. Tel Aviv Riyadh’s “reconciliation process” and the establishment of diplomatic relations were the most important agenda of the US secretary of state in his recent meeting with Saudi authorities (January 6, 2024).
Hamid Khoshayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on US affairs believes Biden has gambled the most on the war in Gaza and Ukraine and will pay a huge price in this regard in the upcoming presidential elections.
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden’s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their “strategic relations.”
Barsam Mohammadi – Expert on regional affairs
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An international relations professor said: With the entry of the Chinese balloon into the American sky, Washington is trying to use this excuse to make China look like a bigger threat to the public opinion of its society and the world community.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An expert on the Middle East affairs, commenting on the dissolution of the Zionist regime’s parliament, said: In the past three decades, except for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, other governments have not been in power for more than a year and a half, the analysis of which is very important.
SCFR Online – Opinion: In the war between Iran and the United States, the main battlefield was not defined solely in the military domain; rather, the battle of narratives in cyberspace—particularly through memes—reached a decisive level.
SCFR Online – Opinion: Only one month after the beginning of the Ramadan War, maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz decreased dramatically, with Bloomberg announcing a reduction of 103 vessels; Brent oil prices rose by more than 50 percent, and gasoline prices in the United States increased by 31.4 percent. Additionally, benchmark gas prices in Europe showed a 73.4 percent increase.
SCFR Online – Note: After approximately five months of political deadlock and institutional confusion, Ali al-Zaydi has finally been selected as Iraq’s Prime Minister. Al-Zaydi’s selection as Prime Minister represents a positive sign of the completion of the government formation process and the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi politics and governance. The emergence of a young, technocratic figure from the third generation of politicians—in a context where the country has been administered by traditional figures for decades—revives hope that Iraq may perhaps distance itself from the repetitive cycle of crises and experience a new path of stability, efficiency, and regional convergence.
SCFR Online – Note: Europe’s refusal to align with the United States in the war against Iran is not a temporary tactic, but rather a sign of strategic divergence and a move toward forced autonomy.
SCFR Online – Note: The militarization of artificial intelligence has eroded the boundaries of ethics and responsibility in warfare, transforming contemporary conflicts into arenas where human decision-making has become increasingly marginalized.
SCFR Online – Note: Over recent decades, support for the Zionist regime has been one of the few issues commanding bipartisan consensus in US foreign policy. Since the Cold War era, Republicans and Democrats have generally agreed on the necessity of preserving the security and survival of the Zionist regime as Washington’s most strategic ally in West Asia—and indeed, globally. However, developments in recent years—particularly the Gaza war, escalating regional conflicts, the expansion of tensions into Lebanon, and this regime’s recent warmongering against Iran—have caused this traditional consensus, especially within the Democratic Party, to face significant fractures.
SCFR Online – Note: Following the resumption of the US and Israeli regime’s war against Iran on February 28, certain divisions have emerged within the United States regarding this issue, both among the public and among political factions.
SCFR Online – Opinion: The internal situation of the Israeli regime during the 40-day war can be analyzed from several perspectives. The popularity levels of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party, and the ruling coalition led by Netanyahu until February 28, 2026, remained approximately the same as during the preceding year. The most recent factor that had somewhat increased Netanyahu’s popularity was the advancement of the 2024 war with Hezbollah Lebanon. Subsequently, his popularity temporarily increased during the 12-day war with Iran, but after the war, it returned to its previous state.