Tuesday 3 March 2026 The 1979 revolution in Iran remains one of the most instructive political upheavals of the modern era. It overturned a heavily armed, externally supported monarchy and replaced it with an ideologically driven theocratic state whose influence continues to shape Middle Eastern geopolitics. The rise to power of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was not an historical accident, nor was it the product of a single social constituency. It emerged from the convergence o

Monday 2 March 2026 When the United States and Israel commenced their strikes upon Iran, the reported assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was presented in some quarters as a decisive blow — the removal of the ultimate authority in a system built upon clerical guardianship and revolutionary vigilance. Yet if one examines the architecture of the Islamic Republic with greater care, the choice appears not bold but curious — perhaps even strategically maladroit.

Monday 2 March 2026 The Middle East has crossed the Rubicon. The conflict now involves at least eleven Middle Eastern countries as well as the United States. How long will it last? The duration of wars is rarely determined by battlefield arithmetic alone. Stockpiles of missiles, numbers of aircraft or the tonnage of precision-guided munitions matter, but they do not settle conflicts unless they are paired with political objectives that are both coherent and attainable. In ass

Monday 2 March 2026 In the spring of 2026, the Middle East entered its gravest strategic crisis in decades when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during a coordinated military offensive by the governments of Israel and the United States of America. This event, shocking in its scale and consequence, cast into sharp relief the long shadow of clandestine conflict between Tehran and Jerusalem, and fundamentally reshaped how intelligence operations such as th

Sunday 1 March 2026 As the war in Ukraine grinds into another year, a wider strategic drama is unfolding beyond the Donbas and the Black Sea. Washington has progressively tightened pressure not only on Moscow but also on governments that have aligned themselves with her. In Latin America, the regime of President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas faces renewed diplomatic and economic coercion after Maduro was kidnapped, arrrested and flown to a New York prison . In the Middle East the