GLOBAL ISSUES

Yubaraj Das
(Currently working as a Researcher at Indic Researchers Forum INDICRF, India)

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The Arab World which is known for its strict and unchanging government. After 2011, it went through a drastic power transformation with an unprecedented wave of protests and citizen demands. Some countries witnessed large-scale peaceful demonstrations leading to a shift in their ruling regime. .. Read more

Asia Watch – A bimonthly column by Professor Swaran Singh in which he analyses major developments across Asia

Swaran Singh

(Professor Swaran Singh teaches disarmament and diplomacy at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) in 2022-23 and at the School of International Studies, Beijing University. A keen observer of China, Professor Singh has been an Asia Fellow (2001-2002) and has held several visiting professorships in China, UPEACE and other universities.)

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History is replete with instances of West-induced regime changes across West Asia, including in Iran. It was an American sleight of hand that derailed the democratic process in Iran, which eventually brought the current Islamic regime to power. By using the nuclear bogey to dismantle the regime in Tehran, the US-Israeli military action only reminds us of the campaign against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, citing his chemical and biological weaponry. If the outcome of the campaign in Iraq was political instability, chaos and a rise of extremism, the result might be no different in Iran as well. While the Khamenei-led order might still survive, it is doubtful whether the Iranian polity is prepared to absorb a radical political transformation… Read more

Alexander Brown, Charlotte Krausz and Rob Gioia
(Researchers at the American Policy Council)

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Note: On 28 November 2025, RIEAS posted an article on “Reimaging Turkish Power: Erdogan’s “Century of Turkiye” Vision and the African Dimension”
On 14 December 2025, RIEAS posted the article “Charting Iran’s Influence in Africa”.

Although Tehran’s activities in Africa tend to receive far less attention than its machinations in the Middle East, Europe, or Latin America, they form a critical pillar of the Islamic Republic’s global strategy… Africa is a significant for Iran, providing it with a testing ground for its influence operations, a pathway for sanctions evasion, and strategic depth for its foreign policy initiatives…. Read more

Authors
Ataallah Abdi 1
Yadollah Karimipour 2
Abdolreza Faraji rad 3
Zahra Saee 4
1 Assistant Professor of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor of political geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate Professor of Geography, Islamic Azad University, Research and Sciences Branch, Tehran, Iran
4 Ph.D. Candidate in Political Geography, kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

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Reposted at RIEAS in 20 December 2025.

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Introduction

Iran and Turkey are the two most important players in the Middle East and the Islamic world with a long-standing relationship with each other. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey was formed from the remains of the Ottoman Turks as a modern nation. In this new era, Iran-Turkey relations entered a new phase. With the advent of the Islamic Revolution, relations between Turkey and Iran were on the ups and downs. ... Read more

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The advancing decomposition of the State of Iraq illuminates the evolution of the instability in the greater Middle East area. Both Iraq and Syria were greatly tested by the explosive growth of the fighting ISIS. Syria managed to survive it thanks to the simultaneous support of Russia, Iran, and Syrian Kurdish Forces, Iraq lost Iraqi Kurdistan and managed to survive ISIS with the support of the Shia Militias of Iraq, which developed their strength with the ideological, financial and material support of Iran. Read more

Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzeliya (IDC) and former Deputy Head of Israel National Security Council)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 20 April 2020

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The Houthis rebels, backed by Iran took Sanaa by force in 2014, overthrowing President Hadi and heading south and east, with the assumption they could take over the whole country. Saudi Arabia and the coalition forces launched a war in March 2015 to uproot the Houthis from Sanaa and restore President Hadi to power. The conflict, widely seen in the region as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. After five years of fighting, neither the Hadi government and the Saudi led coalition nor the Houthi insurgents have accomplished their original goals...Read more