President Donald Trump, left, met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a dinner in the White House, July 7, 2025. Trump secures Iran deal with eye on New Middle East Even in the darkest hour of the US-Iran standoff since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it was never lost on perceptive observers that the acrimonious …
NATO’s mega spending pleases Trump
A large-scale NATO military exercise earlier this year. Credit…Davide Monteleone for The New York Times Viewed through the Cold War prism, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s decision at its recent summit meeting at the Hague to boost the defence spending by member countries to 5 percent of national income may appear to a naive onlooker as …
Middle East in Crisis – 8
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) with French President Emmanuel Macron in talks in Kremlin early February 2022, Moscow France seeks a role in Iran situation On July 1, did you hear the crunching sound of ice cracking on the frozen lake of Russia-France ties? President Vladimir Putin’s decision to take a phone call on …
Middle East in Crisis – 7
Funeral ceremony for military commanders and nuclear scientists martyred during Israel’s 12-day war, Tehran, June 28, 2025 Trump flip-flops on Iran, again. Why? The US President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post yesterday on Iran nuclear issue reads as follows: “Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I am not offering Iran ANYTHING, unlike Obama, …