Opinion & Analysis
Opinion articles and political analysis by Dr. Salem Alketbi on Gulf, Arab, Iranian and international affairs.
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Does Russia fear meeting its Waterloo in Ukraine?
Dmitry Medvedev, Vice President of the Russian Security Council, warned that “the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional…
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The Iran nuclear deal goes down
After marathon rounds of talks in Vienna and other capitals, the fate of attempts to revive the nuclear agreement signed…
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Iran’s messages behind the executions
The execution of a former Iranian official with British citizenship, Alireza Akbari, after accusing him of spying for Britain, Iran…
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New bellwethers in international relations
About a year after its onset in February 2022, the world is not what it was before the war in…
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Can Syria be turned away from Iran?
The question of how to keep Syria out of the orbit of an alliance with Iran is not a new…
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How Biden’s classified documents put him through the wringer
US President Joe Biden has been feeling confident lately, perhaps for the first time since taking office. Inflation is down,…
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Western calculations in the Ukraine war
The million-dollar question in the Ukraine crisis seems to be focused on when significant expectations can be made about the…
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European Democracy in Deep Water
The European Parliament, one of the most influential institutions of the Union, has recently suffered a major blow, the most…
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The Iranian regime gets touchy about the ‘Arabian Gulf’
The “Arabian Gulf” is one of the most sensitive terms for the Iranian regime in relation to its Arab neighbors.…
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American democracy breaks down
The US is experiencing a crisis of what the British newspaper The Guardian called dysfunction after Republican Majority Leader Kevin…
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