US Vice President JD Vance (R) met with Oman’s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi (L), Washington, February 27, 2026 Any longtime observer of the US-Iran hostility would know that appearances can be deceptive diplomacy. Over time, one gets to read the tea leaves with reasonable success with the help of intuitive cognition that gets sharpened out …
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The US President Donald Trump (R) met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, February 11, 2026 Picking up the threads from where I last wrote on the US-Iran negotiations a week ago in my blog titled Odds are 8-1 Trump won’t start a Gulf war, the talks beginning in Geneva today …
The rare appearance by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the State Duma is always a special occasion to read the tea leaves in Russian politics. The salience here, to my mind, lies in the confirmation, if one was needed, that the Kremlin is watching with growing anxiety the transition of the US foreign policies, …
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The éminence grise of Iran’s foreign and security policy strategy and Secretary of Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani was received by Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq to review the latest developments in the US-Iran negotiations and discuss ways to reach a ‘balanced and fair’ agreement, Muscat, Feb 10, 2026 The mutual hostility between …
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Deccan Herald, Feb 4, 2026 Israel’s push, Trump’s pause… The Iran Dilemma M K Bhadrakumar United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s scary admission a week ago during a US Senate hearing was the first signal that, in the asylum of cuckoos surrounding the cascading US-Iran tensions, voices of sanity were asserting. https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/israels-push-trumps-pausethe-iran-dilemma-3885849?
Negotiators from Ukraine (L) the U.S. (C) and Russia (R) meeting in Abu Dhabi, February 4-5, 2026, United Arab Emirates The second round of the trilateral meeting of the US, Ukrainian, and Russian delegations on security issues held in Abu Dhabi on February 4-5 shows incipient signs of progress, contrary to doomsday predictions. One may …
