Etiket arşivi: Iran war

Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq and the Attack on Libya

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March 20, 2026

Today marks a somber double anniversary in Middle Eastern history: 23 years since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and 15 years since the UK, US, and French intervention against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. Years later, the region is not the beacon of stability once promised; instead, it is engulfed in an even more expansive and destructive conflict. As German Foreign Minister Wadephul remarked two days ago, “One thing is clear: We are living through an exceptional moment in history.”[i]

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Europe in a Bind

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March 16, 2026

European leaders met in Berlin on August 12, 2025, two days before the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. They issued a statement affirming that the people of Ukraine must have the freedom to decide their future and that the path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine. Hungary chose not to associate itself with the statement.

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Operation Regime Change (2)

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March 9, 2026

On March 1, the next day of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, President Trump stated that the US military intends to sustain its assault on Iran for “four to five weeks” if necessary, insisting that it “won’t be difficult” to maintain the intensity of the battle, even as he warned of the possibility of further American casualties.

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Operation Regime Change

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March 2, 2026

In the 2012 presidential elections, Hassan Rouhani was elected with a very carefully worded program of change. The President and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif appeared to agree that confrontation with the West over the nuclear program was doing more harm than good to Iran. Thus, on July 14, 2015, the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the UK, the US, and Germany) and Iran reached an agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program would be exclusively peaceful.[i]

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