Iran Nuclear Deal: One Last Chance to Salvage it

Iran nuclear talks are set to resume in Vienna on 29 November 2021. The last round of talks, sixth in the series of talks since it commenced this year, were…

By Col Rajeev Agarwal (Retd)

The Iran Factor in Post Afghanistan Geopolitics

Common belief in geopolitical circles has always considered Iran, with its Shia orientation, as being completely opposed to the Taliban because of the obscurantist Sunni ideology that the latter follows.…

By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)

Chinese checkers in the Middle East: Play or Perish

Chinese checkers in the Middle East: Play or Perish As the United States vacates some of the foreign outposts, China is moving in to fill up the vacuum at a…