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Iran–Israel Conflict
Trump announces ceasefire between Iran and Israel
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump announced early Tuesday that Iran and Israel have agreed to a comprehensive ceasefire, signaling...
Iran strikes U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliatory missile attack
DOHA (Realist English). Iran confirmed on Monday it launched a missile strike against the U.S. military’s Al Udeid Air Base...
China walks a tightrope as U.S. strikes Iran, balancing oil security and global positioning
BEIJING (Realist English). As the United States joined Israel in bombing Iran’s nuclear sites over the weekend, China reaffirmed its...
Iran strikes expose the powerlessness of the Global South
TEHRAN (Realist English). The joint US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure have revealed not only Tehran’s strategic vulnerability but also...
Global leaders divided over Trump’s Iran strike as fears of broader conflict escalate
WASHINGTON (Realist English). World leaders issued a flurry of statements in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United...
Trump strikes Iran’s nuclear sites, sparking fears of full-scale war
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump has ordered a large-scale US airstrike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, dramatically escalating tensions in...
Israel–Iran conflict threatens China’s oil security and regional influence
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s energy security and Middle East ambitions are under growing pressure as Israel’s attacks on Iran threaten...
Tanker charter rates surge amid rising tensions in Strait of Hormuz
DUBAI (Realist English). The cost of chartering large oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz — a vital chokepoint for...
Putin rejects Iran’s capitulation, proposes compromise solution to end hostilities
SAINT PETERSBURG (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out the possibility of an Iranian capitulation and called for a...
“We Are Witnessing the Messianic Footsteps”: Avigdor Eskin on Israel’s War with Iran
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli public figure and publicist Avigdor Eskin argues that we live in an era of “incredible acceleration,” when...
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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