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There Is No Military Solution To Strait Of Hormuz – OpEd

Indian media have spread misconceptions over the meeting convened by the UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Thursday 2nd April

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Trump And The Debris Of Iran War – OpEd

The only clue the US President Donald Trump has given in his prime time televised speech on Wednesday at the

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US Offers India Pivotal Role In Hormuz Strait – OpEd

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been persistently working to put the

30.03.2026 5

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Gulf War: India Is In A Catch-22 Situation – OpEd

The salience of the two readouts of the phone call on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran’s President

22.03.2026 7

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Off-Ramp In Iran Is Disappearing But US Remains Averse To Prolonged Conflict – OpEd

Less than three weeks into the aggression against Iran since February 28, which the US President Donald Trump called a

20.03.2026 4

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Mojtaba’s Message To Trump: ‘Bring It On!’ – OpEd

There is an English proverb, ‘The darkest hours are just before the dawn.’ Maybe, hope should linger on that the

16.03.2026 4

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Iran-US Conflict Turns Into Prolonged Attrition – OpEd

The stunning message from the first public message on Thursday by Iran’s new Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is that

14.03.2026 5

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US Makes India Perform In A Circus Tent – OpEd

A well-honed tool in the United States’ diplomatic box is to rub the nose of its vassal states in the

09.03.2026 3

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This Is Netanyahu’s War, Stupid – OpEd

A national daily commented editorially yesterday that apropos of the United States’ war on Iran, the Modi government should “take a

07.03.2026 4

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Trump Takes Hands-On Role In Iran Talks – OpEd

Picking up the threads from where I last wrote on the US-Iran negotiations a week ago in my blog titled Odds

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Lavrov Sees A New Era Of Global Development – OpEd

The rare appearance by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the State Duma is always a special occasion to read the

13.02.2026 20

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Odds Are 8-1 Trump Won’t Start A Gulf War – OpEd

The mutual hostility between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other since the 1978

11.02.2026 7

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Talks On Ukraine Make Progress – OpEd

The second round of the trilateral meeting of the US, Ukrainian, and Russian delegations on security issues held in Abu

07.02.2026 10

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Russia, China Part Ways In Western Hemisphere – OpEd

In a pointed reference to the Chinese leadership by name, the Russian state news agency Tass took note of Beijing’s

17.01.2026 10

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Venezuela Is Not About Drugs Or Migration: It Is Trump’s ‘Ukraine Moment’ – OpEd

The Pentagon has deployed special operations aircraft, troops and equipment to the Caribbean region near Venezuela, The Wall Street Journal

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Those Dark Clouds Are The Debt – OpEd

By Douglas Carswell The future for our state looks bright. In just the past five years, Mississippi has seen more

17.11.2025 9

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US-Russia Summit In Budapest Is Back On Track – OpEd

The G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara, Canada, on November 11-12 turned out to be a significant event at a

17.11.2025 9

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Syria Comes In From The Cold – OpEd

With great prescience, late Henry Kissinger had once said, “You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt, and

13.11.2025 8

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India’s West Asian Blues Deepen As Gaza Plan Shifts Gear – OpEd

The overnight visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to India has been rather thin on the ground. Although this

06.11.2025 8

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Trump Comes To Asia As Peacemaker – OpEd

The United States used to be an ardent supporter of the rechristening of the Asia-Pacific region as the Indo-Pacific, and

29.10.2025 8

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Trump May Not Follow Through On Russian Oil Or Tomahawks – OpEd

US President Donald Trump has seemingly shifted gear in the US strategy to stop Russia on its tracks from creating

26.10.2025 7

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Neocons Celebrate Donald Trump’s Humiliation: Why It Matters – OpEd

I still miss the inimitable tag line, Tukde Tukde Gang, literally meaning ‘fragments’, after all these eleven tumultuous years of Indian politics.

12.10.2025 10

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Sir Creek Comes Alive From Slumber – OpEd

In the Jean-Jacques Annaud film based on William Craig’s 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, Nikita Khrushchev,...

09.10.2025 10

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Morocco’s World Cup Gamble – OpEd

By Jake Scott “Stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?” The chant spread across TikTok and WhatsApp, and by

06.10.2025 7

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India, Pakistan In Dead Heat To Promote Trump’s Nobel – OpEd

The much-awaited olive branch from India to the Trump Administration to let bygones be bygones comes as a pleasant surprise

06.10.2025 8

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Ukraine War At Crossroads As Trump Pulls Out – OpEd

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came out of a meeting in New York in the weekend with the US

02.10.2025 10

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Saudi-China Relations – OpEd

By Jake Scott In an era when regional multilateral deals are stalling, China and Saudi Arabia are seemingly forging an

19.09.2025 10

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Chabahar Sanctions Is A Strategic Move By US – OpEd

God giveth and God taketh away, the Bible says. The US State Department announcement to reimpose sanctions on India’s Chabahar Port

19.09.2025 10

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Trump Threw India Under The Bus To Appease China But Things Only Got Complicated – OpEd

How far US President Donald Trump’s goodwill towards India and its PM Narendra Modi via social media would translate into

15.09.2025 10

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India Disavows ‘Tianjin Spirit’, Turns To EU – OpEd

India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event

07.09.2025 10

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Middle East Is Lurching Toward War – OpEd

There is extremely alarming news about the situation around Iran. In consultations with the Trump administration — rather, in deference

05.09.2025 10

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A Frenemy Named Donald Trump – OpEd

Well-known author, fund manager and columnist for the Financial Times Ruchir Sharma wrote this week that the perception that the

01.08.2025 10

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Trump Secures Iran Deal With Eye On New Middle East – OpEd

Even in the darkest hour of the US-Iran standoff since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it was never lost on perceptive

10.07.2025 10

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NATO’s Mega Spending Pleases Trump – OpEd

Viewed through the Cold War prism, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s decision at its recent summit meeting at the Hague

07.07.2025 10

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France Seeks A Role In Iran Situation – OpEd

On July 1, did you hear the crunching sound of ice cracking on the frozen lake of Russia-France ties? President

03.07.2025 8

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The End Of Justice In Mexico? – OpEd

By Sergio Martínez On June 1, 2025, Mexicans were called to vote for judges, magistrates, and Supreme Court justices. It

02.07.2025 10

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Trump Flip-Flops On Iran, Again: Why? – OpEd

The US President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post on Iran nuclear issue reads as follows: “Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris

02.07.2025 8

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A Tyranny To Remember – OpEd

By Lawrence W. Reed Armed with weapons and a monopoly on the use of legal force, one man (or woman)

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Trump Won’t Brook Opposition To Peace Talks With Iran – OpEd

As the 12-day war ends in the Middle East, it is abundantly clear that the conflict erupted almost entirely due

27.06.2025 7

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Middle East In Crisis – OpEd

The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices

24.06.2025 10

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Putin In Reflective Mood Muses On US-Iran Confrontation – OpEd

The US President Donald Trump who sought President Vladimir Putin’s active help a fortnight ago to mediate in the negotiations

21.06.2025 10

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Trump Orders ‘Unconditional Surrender’ By Iran: Who’s Listening? – OpEd

Israel’s blitzkrieg against Iran five days ago is failing spectacularly. The Russian media reported that: i) Israel’s Rafael weapons complex

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Middle East In Crisis: Netanyahu’s War On Iran Has No Future – OpEd

An unnoticed undercurrent of the Israel-Iran war is that three Christian nations in Europe — UK, France and Germany —

17.06.2025 10

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The Fed Is Powerful: That’s The Problem – OpEd

By Matthew Blakey Whenever the Federal Reserve releases its meeting minutes, a crowd of analysts rush to dissect every comma

14.06.2025 10

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Middle East In Crisis: Why Did Israel Jump The Gun? – OpEd

The Israeli Defence Forces called the aerial attack on Iran by some 200 planes in the early hours of Friday,

14.06.2025 9

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US Snubs India’s War On Terror – OpEd

The Indian media reports make out that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reception for the seven parliamentary delegations waging the war on...

12.06.2025 10

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Profiles In Courage: Trump And Eisenhower – OpEd

President Donald Trump had a difficult week. No, this isn’t about Elon Musk or Harvard University. On Wednesday, his call

07.06.2025 10

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Panda-Led Team Returns From Middle East – OpEd

The multi-party delegation led by the BJP Vice-President and spokesman Bijayant Panda which toured four countries in the Gulf region

05.06.2025 10

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Trump Won’t Walk Away From Ukraine War – OpEd

One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on

30.05.2025 10

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Putin Succeeds In Engaging With Trump – OpEd

The mystique of engaging with the US President Donald Trump will remain a hot topic. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s

26.05.2025 10

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