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Trump announces imminent deal with Iran: ‘Looking very good’
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump has expressed optimism about the prospects of reaching a permanent ceasefire between the United...
Blockade as a substitute for bombing: Trump bets on hunger and hyperinflation in Iran, not on a new wave of airstrikes
NEW YORK (Realist English). Replacing massive airstrikes with a naval blockade is Donald Trump’s attempt to force Iran’s capitulation without a...
A Second Attempt in Islamabad? Washington and Tehran Try to Reach a Deal Before the Ceasefire Expires on April 21
TEHRAN (Realist English). The United States and Iran are exploring the possibility of a second round of negotiations to end the...
Why Trump is threatening to blockade a strait that Iran is already blockading
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump made another sharp statement on the situation in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday,...
“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...
«The Kurdish card is a weapon of major powers»: Yaşar Yakış on why Turkey missed its chance to solve the Kurdish issue
ANKARA (Realist English). Yaşar Yakış — a Turkish diplomat and statesman who served as Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to Saudi...
Dmitry Novikov on his path to politics, the intelligentsia, the left movement, and why US aggression against Iran is a threat to Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Dmitry Novikov, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma...
“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...
Venezuela after Maduro: oil instead of democracy?
CARACAS (Realist English). When U.S. forces swooped into Caracas in January 2026 and seized President Nicolás Maduro, many Venezuelans inside and outside...
The deal was close, but Trump blew it up with social media posts
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Toward the end of last week, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal...
The story of Russian girl Kristina Romanova: a Mexican thriller with a terrible ending
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Tatyana Poloskova, Doctor of Political Science, First Class State Advisor of the Russian Federation, based on her...
From Ayatollahs to Generals: Has Iran Shifted Under the Rule of Security Forces?
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Islamic Republic of Iran was built to be governed by clerics. It is now widely acknowledged as...
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