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    Iraq and its chances of being a successful mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Hamid Redha Al-Ibrahimi For a while, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has been seeking to fill the role of mediator, and to open a closed channel of dialogue between Riyadh and Tehran; In order to ease the tension in the region, and play a leading role in providing political weight, represented...

    Improving the UAE’s relations with Turkey and Iran and its implications on Iraq

    Ali Najat The painful experiences of wars and conflicts during the past decade prompted the actors in the Middle East to reduce tensions and neutralize crises as much as possible, and to find a formula for dialogue. After a decade of the Arab Spring, the impulse of the uprisings gradually...

    The far-right and the COVID-19 pandemic A Political investment or An Election propaganda

    Khudair Abbas Al-Dahlaki Far-right political parties and forces have been investing in crises to promote their racist ideas and attracting important segments of European societies (check Annex No.1) and focusing on the youth age group, as well as carrying out attacks against refugees and foreigners in general, Muslims in particular....

    Russia and Iran… The Search for a “point of balance” between attraction and repulsion factors in Syria… A Framework Approach

    Russia and Iran are among the most important actors of the Syrian war, two supportive allies of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and the two main actors he was able to rely on in the war, and perhaps - of course, there are other factors - the main reason for...

    The Fall of Kabul: Tehran’s Position and Regional Future

    Introduction The fall of the Afghan State and the way Iran deals with its data have created various assumptions and possibilities at the level of experts and followers in the Middle East, which is one of the countries with the largest transnational agendas associated with Iran, Fatimids (al-Fātimiyyūn).          Iran seems...

    Possible scenarios for Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) and its future in Afghanistan

    The Khorasan Province is one of the most prominent provinces and branches of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The branch of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, known as the Islamic State – Khorasan, is the largest branch in terms of the numbers and strength of...

    Nuclear submarine crisis: Overlapping positions of partners

    The beginnings of the Franco-Australian agreement on advanced nuclear submarines date back to 2016 when both states concluded an agreement to build a new fleet of 12 nuclear submarines in a total deal worth $65 billion by the French company DCNS, where the state has 62%, and under the...

    Iraq’s Attempts to Return to the Regional Arena

    Iraq is one of the first Arab and Islamic countries to gain independence after the First World War. Iraq has long been an important participant in the Middle East and has played an important role in shaping rhetoric and policies in the region. In addition to Iraq's spiritual place...

    The Afghan scene… Reading in motives and implications… and possible lessons

    For a Syrian or Iraqi spectator, what is happening in Afghanistan seems like a normal event, compared to what terrors they have seen, what terror they are living in, and there may be nothing left in this world to surprise them. But the situation is relatively different for the...

    Gulf reconciliation and its potential regional implications for politics, economy, and security Perspective vision

    The objective of this study is to monitor regional variables likely to occur as a result of the breakthrough of the Gulf/Qatari crisis at several levels, including political, economic, and security, and to determine whether this breakthrough or reconciliation is based on the foundations of durability and continuity, or...