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Because the real world operates differently from the idealistic world in which many tend to build their theories and rhetorics upon, it enforces countless restrictions. In the absence of sufficient capacity to push all foreign interference, the country needs to use its regional players against...

Free from IRGC influence.

What matters is the headlines, the missiles may not have hit any meaningful target but that wont stop the mullahs from claiming otherwise, why pay the full cost when you can claim victory for a quarter of that. Like the Turks to the north, the neighbors from the East have committed what can...

No need to be puzzled, one look at the map should clarify everything. State destroyed, power vacuum, regional actors pour in to compete for influence/minimize potential threats, militias created... Etc.

When your adversary starts banning cats and literary authors, you know that all retaliatory steps he has taken did not have the desired effect and has effectively extinguished all meaningful options to the degree that they are now illegally looting Russian citizens assets. Regardless of the...

There is a lot that can be said regarding the Kurds and wether using them against regional actors is unwise or not, for now we must define our priorities and act accordingly, weakening the IRGC should take precedence over the KRG, to take action against the KRG now would play right in to the...

At this point of time, shifting focus to the KRG from the ongoing process to diminish IRGC influence is not in our interest. In a post IRGC future, attempting to take direct control over all or any of the current KRG provinces would spark both international uproar (mainly US) as well as incur...

The center doesn't have the power to enforce this verdict on the KRG, atleast not without destabilizing the entire country, which is what this ruling at this delicate timing intends to acheive. The kurds were allowed to take much more than their fair share as long as they served Iran's...

Unsurprisingly, the supreme court itself is yet another tool in this ongoing political struggle, the KRG have been doing this and more for over a decade now, such a decision at this time is only meant to serve the interests of the IRGC and its proxies. .

Their agriculture did suffer from excessive imports from Iran and Turkey, the droughts and the reduced incoming water supply also hit the sector hard nationwide, some import bans were imposed recently and they did achieve self sufficiency in a number of crops like grain, onions and potatoes...

Kurds are a much greater threat to Turkey than to Iraq in which they already have an autonomous region. They do siphon resources, but they play a critical role in containing Turkey and even counterbalance the IRGC proxies influence in the Iraqi government. Kurds claim the lands where our water...

Geopolitical threats arent evaluated based only on current and past conduct but must also take into account the capability of each actor, attempt to predict the shape of their interests as it morphs in response to the ever changing dynamics of the geopolitical stage. In that sense, wether Iran...

Oh dear... here I was thinking that using available means to best handle the intricate balance of opposing powers was the prime principle in Geopolitics, no place for emotions or rhetorics, but what do I know ? I am in the end, terribly naive. IRGC is not Iran, its just a part of Iran, a part...

I could barely read through all of the hashish smoke in this thread, thankfully it appears I wasnt missing much. So in short... - No Arab coalition is capable of invading Iraq, International community wont green light it, none of the countries can afford it, and it would push all the shia...

It would appear we have reached the point where the IRGC backed groups in Iraq have outlived their usefulness... Striking the UAE now is not in Iraq's interests. The hourglass is now ticking.

Like all things, people change with time, and with how connected the world has become in this era we live in, this process has become ever more rapid... And ever more predictable. Al-Sadr is merely the exit point of what has been accumulating slowly but surely for sometime now, the...

What an embarrassing catastrophe this Yemen war has become, the gulf states are now on the same playing level as the Houthis and are infact losing. A perfect demonstration of how obsolete the system by which these nations are ruled... If we can even call it a system that is.

The uighur case is nothing compared to Gaza, or indeed the perils the people suffer in Syria and Yemen. When you boycott the perpetrators of the above, we can talk about what is essentially a Chinese internal matter.

I see that the secularism disease has already infected some in Iran. Western secularism is one of the many social disorders propagated by western outlets, mainly as a soft power weapon, often touted as superior form of society, one of it's most claimed benefits is 'unifying people'. Though...

Hashish level through the roof in this thread, I thought its pointless to spend time addresing mindless bots but the delusions here have reached a critical level. Turkey wont be getting mosul let aside dreaming of going anywhere south of that, the talk of an Arab nato doing Turkeys work is...