Dubai’s shell companies and free zones keep Iran sanctions evasion alive despite the UAE’s new direct trade suspension.
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Russia’s unique access to Iran’s nuclear program may offer a narrow but credible path to breaking the US-Iran deadlock.
Saudi Arabia’s new 15-country naval pact signals a historic regional turn away from reliance on US military protection.
Turkey’s Kurdish peace bill offers PKK amnesty while critics see a legal path to Erdoğan’s third presidential term.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan’s new defence pact signals a regional order less dependent on US military protection.
Gulf states are shifting from broken guarantees to layered defense, selective hedging, and the limits of a NATO-style alliance.
Israeli Red Lines now target Turkish military entrenchment in Syria after Abu Duhur strike escalates regional security tensions.
Iraq’s southern crude still flows through a contested chokepoint as Baghdad revives pipeline plans that remain financially and politically blocked.
Renewed Houthi missile and drone strikes across Yemen are testing the 2022 truce and threatening a broader regional war.
Iran sees The Mecca Pact as opportunity, not threat. Turkish-Pakistani ties and Israeli rivalry may create strategic space for Tehran.