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3 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel
Iran makes threats, but it will not act. It will not mine the Strait of Hormuz or block it by bombing passing ships. This scenario would backfire and primarily harm China – the largest buyer of Gulf oil – which would lose four million barrels a day. Iran’s enemies – the Americans and Israelis – would be the ones to benefit, because Beijing would adopt an angry stance toward Iran.
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3 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed
There is an immense moral and political gap between Israel’s blatant unhinged incitement on the life of the symbolic figurehead of the Islamic Republic of Iran (which the Americans eventually sympathized with after their initial opposition) and calm reflection on Iran’s fate after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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4 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Hazem Saghieh
The ongoing exchange of missiles, and the accompanying psychological and intelligence warfare, seems like a foregone conclusion, because all the supposed dividing lines in the Israeli-Iranian conflict have collapsed. These lines collapsed as the possibility of saving the Middle East, alongside the United States and Israel, from an ominous unknown began to vanish.
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4 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Unprecedented scenes in this terrifying region. In the scorching Middle Eastern ring, three great boxers face off over patches of blood and lakes of rubble. The people of the region woke up to the news that US bombers had struck three Iranian nuclear facilities at dawn. The Israelis woke up to destruction they had never seen since the founding of the state in 1948.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Ghassan Charbel
It might be safe to say that the relationship between states and armed militias might benefit from revisions of a highly consequential episode of modern Arab history: the Jordanian civil war of 1970–1971.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed
When a nation’s options are narrowed by dramatic developments, it is left with two choices: gloating or denial... Both affirm that this nation has resigned itself to a life on the margins of history. We Arabs currently constitute a strong majority in West Asia and North Africa. Our territories are home to some of the world’s most significant natural resources; they are by most of the ancient world’s seas, and are part of the most important trade and civilization routes known to humanity.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Emile Ameen
This war had been brewing for two decades - long anticipated but repeatedly avoided. Both the Iranian and Israeli sides had succeeded in avoiding direct confrontation, limiting themselves to proxy wars, until the October 7, 2023, attack happened. At that point, the Israelis decided to eliminate the sources of threat and shift their strategy from “mowing the lawn” - targeting the proxy threats as they grow - to destroying the entire octopus.
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1 week ago | 
arabnews.com | Ghassan Charbel
Khamenei, Netanyahu and Trump’s keys Short Urlhttps://arab.news/j4j67 It is no simple feat to make Tehran live at the mercy of Israeli fighter jets and for the Israeli army to declare that the skies leading to the Iranian capital are open to its aircraft. It is also no simple feat to make Tel Aviv come under a barrage of Iranian missiles and for its people to come out of their shelters and observe the destruction around them.
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1 week ago | 
arabnews.pk | Ghassan Charbel
Khamenei, Netanyahu and Trump’s keys Ghassan Charbel June 16, 2025 16:43 Escalating the ongoing conflict will impact regional security and energy prices (File/AFP) Short Urlhttps://arab.news/yvdju
It is no simple feat to make Tehran live at the mercy of Israeli fighter jets and for the Israeli army to declare that the skies leading to the Iranian capital are open to its aircraft.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Emile Ameen |Mustafa Fahs
It’s no simple feat to make Tehran live at the mercy of Israeli fighter jets and for the Israeli army to declare that the skies leading to the Iranian capital are open to its aircraft. It’s no simple feat to make Tel Aviv come under a barrage of Israeli missiles and for its people to come out of the shelters and observe the destruction around them.
