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Middle East pulls a NATO

Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia made a defence pact, the basis of which sounds awfully familiar: an attack on one is an attack on all. The devil's in the details, and those remain unknown, but a closer look complicates the picture: media report the document the trio signed on Friday doesn't require the new allies to support one another in the way we know as members of the NATO. It's more an…

Bahrain - passport as a weapon

69 Bahrainis had their citizenship revoked because their government decided they were traitors. The youngest is a few months old. Their sin? They glorified and sympathized with Iran's enemy actions. What sounds horryfing is in fact - at least in some of the cases - sharing footage online of Iranian drones and missiles, and the damage they caused. Is that really a glorification of enemy aggression?…

Iran - the war in the times of social media

Donald Trump's ceasefire is getting shaky, although it continues to hold. Iran has attacked an Emirati port, and there are contradictory reports of attacks on ships. The ceasefire is there, although Americans won. In Lebanon, it only applies in theory: since April, Israel has killed hundreds of people and razed villages to the ground. Donald Trump is indeed a miraclous man: he started a war…

The Gulf’s new normal

18 people have died so far in Iran's attacks on the Gulf's Arab states. The continuing drone and missile strikes beg the question: is the Persian Gulf safe nowadays? The third week of the war in Iran brings more of the same. The US and Israel attack both military and civilian targets in the Islamic Republic, which sends drones and missiles on its Arab neighbours - Saudi Arabia intercepted 64…

At war with Iran. The dominoes of pressure

The US and Israel have began a war they do not seem to have properly planned, risking to destabilise the region without a guarantee of success. Initially, the stated goal was to "decapitate the regime," giving Iranians a chance to take over the government, but the chaotic messaging suggests the why is murky. Smoke billowing from the US 5th fleet base, Bahrain, 28.02.26 The remarks by the secretary…