Tag: West Asia

  • Iranian Regime to Use Foreign Fighters against Own People

    [MEP Desk] Tehran’s threat to use foreign fighters against its own people is a clear indication that many in the Iranian security forces will not follow orders if mass protests…

  • Iran’s Leaders Are Hypocrites

    [Ehsan Hosseinzadeh] Iranian leaders use social media freely without censorship, yet the people are banned from doing so.

  • Asia’s Geopolitical Alliances are Shifting

    [Conn M. Hallinan] From what direction on the Compass Rose the winds out of Washington will blow is hardly clear, but increasingly a number of countries are charting a course…

  • War against ISIS: Does the Battlefield Success Alone Count?

    [Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra] While the intervening powers have palpably shown enough resolve in removing despotic regimes like the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam of Iraq or in keeping Assad…

  • Civil Wars, Use of Force and International Peace

    [Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra] Western security perspective’s preoccupation with the enforcement of rights of individuals may call for international intervention taking an intense form bent on a regime change even…

  • Turkey’s President: Short Term Victory, Long Term Trouble

    [Conn M. Hallinan] The election will be held essentially under martial law, and Erdogan has loaded all the dice, marked every card, and rigged every roulette wheel. 

  • New Alliance Could Re-shape Middle East

    [Conn M. Hallinan] The “troika alliance”—Turkey, Russia and Iran—consists of three countries that don’t much like one another, have different goals, and whose policies are driven by a combination of…

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