Category: Iran
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Trump says UN has ‘tremendous, tremendous potential’ but it needs to learn real peace-making from him
President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations on Tuesday to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution. World leaders listened closely to his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly as Trump has already moved quickly to diminish U.S. support for the world body in his first eight…
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Episode #72. Soma Somasundaram: Driving Energy and Leadership Forward
Episode #72. Soma Somasundaram: Driving Energy and Leadership Forward From a small village in India to the Global Energy Stage. In this episode of Oilfield 360, hosts David de Roode and Victoria Beard sit down with Soma Somasundaram, Executive Advisor to the CEO of SLB, and former CEO of recently acquired Champion X, to explore his remarkable rise from rural southern India…
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Small Businesses Reveal the Promotions That Actually Excite Customers
We’ve all heard of happy hours and “buy-one-get-one-free” sales. But if you’re looking to run a promotion that truly gets customers excited, it needs to be memorable. Maybe it’s memorable because the story you share is so personal, or the goods are displayed in a fun way, or the event gets customers involved (because, say,…
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The Problem of Green Capitalism
Q&A / September 23, 2025 A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition. Solar panels in the Ningxia Tengger Desert New Energy Base in China’s northern Ningxia region, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images) The political scientist Thea…
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Rising Lion Shows the U.S. Needs More Allies Like Israel
OPINION — Israel’s Operation Rising Lion will go down as among the most impressive military campaigns in history. Military academies, military planners, and the Intelligence Community will study it for decades. More urgent, however, is that policymakers understand the importance of U.S. support in enabling Israel to advance our shared interests. In less than a…
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The China threat goes beyond the Pacific, intel chiefs say
China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, sets out for maiden sea trials from Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, May 1, 2024. Li Yun / Xinhua via Getty Images China is developing space capabilities and next-generation fighter jets at a rapid rate, while also increasing its global footprint with military facilities and partnerships beyond the Indo-Pacific…
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Pakistan-Saudi Pact Reveals Growing Distrust of US-Led Security Architecture
Editor’s Note: Dr. Mohammad Salami is a Pakistan-based specialist on Middle Eastern policy, particularly in Iran and the Persian Gulf region. His areas of expertise include politics and governance, security, and counterterrorism, and he has written for Stimson about Iran’s energy woes, domestic rivalries and efforts to control the internet. By Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow,…
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Trump’s Inaction Slowly Unravels Russian Sanctions Regime
Chip Somodevilla/Shutterstock The US sanctions regime on Russia is gradually unraveling as US President Donald Trump keeps postponing new measures despite issuing repeated threats to ramp up pressure on Moscow and setting — and then ignoring — deadlines for the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine. Instead, the Trump administration says it has maintained…
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The D Brief: Another boat strike; Russian jets over Estonia; F-47’s new flight date; Shutdown watch; And a bit more.
In international waters around Latin America, Trump says he ordered another “lethal kinetic strike” on a boat allegedly “affiliated with [an unnamed] Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” the president posted online Friday. He did not say when this third lethal strike was carried out. Trump said three “narcoterrorists” were…
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Expanding Syria’s multilateral development bank engagement
Issue Brief September 22, 2025 • 10:30 am ET Basil Kiwan Summary Estimates of Syria’s post-civil war cost of rebuilding range from $250 billion to $400 billion. This sum is beyond what Syria’s internal resources can generate and will require mobilization of significant outside public and private investment. Syria must articulate a realistic but ambitious…
