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Iran’s Foreign Policy
“Ceasefire is temporary and conditional”: why reopening the Strait of Hormuz won’t solve shipping woes and high oil prices
NEW YORK (Realist English). The fragile two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, announced on April 8, is not giving...
US Vice President says no agreement with Iran, ceasefire in doubt
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Talks between the United States and Iran held in Islamabad on April 11–12 failed to produce an agreement...
Vance expects ‘positive’ talks in Islamabad as Trump warns Iran has ‘no cards other than extortion’
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). The American delegation, headed by Vice President JD Vance, is arriving in Islamabad for negotiations with Iran, the...
“Iran deceived its own citizens”: Pakistani officials claim Tehran published a false version of the agreement
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). The Pakistani capital has fallen unusually quiet ahead of the critical talks between the United States and Iran....
General Petraeus: Some NATO countries let the US down in the Iran war, Spain outright refused bases
NEW YORK (Realist English). In an interview with CNN published on April 9, former CIA director and commander of international forces...
US-Iran ceasefire holds for now, despite strikes on Lebanon
TEHRAN (Realist English). The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, announced on the evening of April 7, remains in...
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...
Pentagon: Operation “Epic Fury” destroyed 80% of Iran’s air defense, 150 ships and 450 missile depots
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Speaking at a Pentagon press conference on April 8, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized that American forces...
Iran warns it is ready for war as Trump weighs military options
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that Tehran is ready for war if the United States...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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