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The United Nations at a Crossroads: Legitimacy and Power in an Emerging Multipolar Order Delegation of the Institute for Iran &Eurasia Studies Visited RIAC The Strong Developmental State: A Review of Seyfodini’s Theory of Iranian Statecraft Bagram Airfield: Central Asian Security Dynamics and Great Power Rivalry Iranian Studies in Armenia: Challenges and Future Prospects

INTENSIFICATION OF TERRORIST OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN; DIMENSIONS AND CONSEQUENCES

Strategic Council Online—Editorial: Afghanistan is going through difficult and worrying days. The suicide attacks and bombings in Kunduz, Kandahar, Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif and other cities of the country against innocent civilians, which have left hundreds of martyrs and wounded so far, are completely targeted and the Taliban is responsible for preventing it.

Dark Shadow of sanctions and deep concerns in Russia

Editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled television news network RT, Margarita Simonyan who is a well-known media figure in Russia and also advisor to Vladimir Putin, recently recited a poem from Anna Akhmatova in a TV program and asked Russians to get ready for hard economic situation.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and New Diplomacies

Faculty of World Studies, Tehran, Iran

Strategic factors behind China’s (US rival) tendency towards the Persian Gulf region

Strategic Council Online—Opinion: In the recent visit of the President of China to Saudi Arabia and the unacceptable association of this country with the anti-Iranian statements of the Saudi authorities and also the members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, while provoking public anger in Iran, has raised various ideas and analyses surrounding why this happened and the reasons for China’s closeness to the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf; But in this news-analytical frenzy, what has been neglected or at least less addressed is the examination and analysis of the variables and factors that caused China to be attracted to the Persian Gulf region as a competing power of the United States and its eagerness to enter into strategic agreements with various countries in this region. Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri—University professor

Motives and consequences of gas agreement between Russia and the Republic of Azerbaijan

Strategic Council Online—Interview: An expert on Russian issues, stating that one of Europe’s measures to reduce the costs and political and economic consequences of its decisions is the indirect import of energy from Russia, said that a behind-the-scenes agreement between Russia and the West in this regard is not unlikely.

Iran’s legal standing in the Zangezur question

The fundamental principle is that no international agreement can impose rights or obligations on a third state without its explicit agreement

Iran Chamber of Commerce president urges need to resolve transit problems with Belarus

President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture has highlighted the need for Iran and Belarus to solve transit problems and facilitate issuing banking guarantees as a prerequisite for promotion of trade between the two countries.

Iran and Eurasian Economic Union Negotiations: Upgrading EAEU-Iran Preferential Trade Agreement into a Free Trade Agreement

The Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) was signed on 29 May 2014 by the leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, and came into force on 1 January 2015. Treaties for Armenia's and Kyrgyzstan's accession to the EAEU were signed on 9 October and 23 December 2014, respectively.

Iran and Uzbekistan sign anti- money laundering MoU

The MoU was signed on Friday in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe on the sidelines of a meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG).

Iran private sector calls for forming a joint working group with Belarus for removing trade obstacles

President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture (ICCIMA) has urged the need for forming a joint working group with Belarus for identifying and removing trade obstacles.

Iran, Russia private sectors discuss completion of North-South Corridor

Xi Warms Up China’s Economy, But Virus Narrows Options

Iran Chamber of Commerce president urges need to resolve transit problems with B...

Rereading Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bulba at the Time of the Ukraine War and i...

The unveiling of the book :Neo-Conservatism in the Putin Era: Roots and Ideas

Envoy: Iran, Belarus enjoy various commonalities for cooperation

Putin congratulates leaders, people of CIS states, Abkhazia, South Ossetia with ...

Motives and consequences of gas agreement between Russia and the Republic of Aze...

Iran’s legal standing in the Zangezur question

Capacities and Dimensions of Russian Investment in Iranian Oil and Gas Fields

The United Nations at a Crossroads: Legitimacy and Power in an Emerging Multipolar Order

Parsa Akhlaghi, PhD Candidate in Russian Studies, Department of European Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran (IRAN)

Delegation of the Institute for Iran &Eurasia Studies Visited RIAC

The Strong Developmental State: A Review of Seyfodini’s Theory of Iranian Statecraft

Bagram Airfield: Central Asian Security Dynamics and Great Power Rivalry

Vida Yaghouti

Iranian Studies in Armenia: Challenges and Future Prospects

IRAS Editorial Board

The European Snapback Mechanism Against Iran and the US-Israeli Acts of Aggression: An Analysis Under International Law and Norms

Arash M. Akbari

Russo–Indian 2030 Trade Vision: Patterns of a Time-tested “Partnership”

By: Ebrahim Daryaee Motlagh, PhD candidate of Russian History at Chechen State Pedagogical University

Russia–Ukraine crisis shows no sign of ending soon

Mahmoud Shouri

Iran’s legal standing in the Zangezur question

Salar Seyfodini

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Bagram Airfield: Central Asian Security Dynamics and Great Power Rivalry

Recapturing Bagram for Washington would serve not merely as a territorial achievement, but as a signal of the return of capacity demonstrating influence in Asia—a message sent to rivals such as China and Russia, as well as to regional neighbors Pakistan and Iran. Image Credits: Reuters