Atlantic Council experts analyze new US sanctions targeting Iranian financial lifelines, evaluating Chinese responses and broader regional economic impacts.
Browsing: Diplomacy
Pakistan faces deepening LNG shortages after Hormuz closure, forcing blackouts and fertilizer plant shutdowns while negotiating limited cargo passage.
Turkey’s military and economic dominance in Syria alarms Israel, but local resistance and Arab rivalries constrain Ankara’s ambitions.
Forty seven years of sanctions and strikes failed to break Iran. Maximum Pressure strengthened resistance and eroded U.S. credibility.
Military force cannot substitute for political settlement, as the Iran campaign risks becoming another long open-ended U.S. deployment.
Iran’s embassies use memes, humor, and unbothered defiance on X to reshape global wartime narratives and build trust.
Tehran now pairs direct missile threats with Gulf diplomacy after two wars convinced Iran that regime change remains Washington’s goal.
Oman’s quiet diplomacy with Tehran now offers the only credible path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz without war.
Lebanon’s Lebanon-Israel framework is not merely bad—it crosses from regrettable into intolerable, binding sovereignty to obligations the state cannot enforce.
The Iran–US ceasefire represents an unequal draw where both sides buy time, making a comprehensive settlement unlikely and future conflict probable.