By Afshin Majlesi

Inside Trump’s all-or-nothing mindset

TEHRAN - In Donald Trump’s world, a deal is rarely about negotiation. It is about showing who is in charge!

By Matin Jamshidi

Netanyahu shaping Trump’s policy on Iran

TEHRAN - Under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, there is a growing perception that Israeli vicious goals are being prioritized over American interests.

By Garsha Vazirian

The orange boy who cried peace was always the wolf

Iran will not buy another American mirage after two wars launched under the cover of 'talks'

TEHRAN — To understand why Iran views current American overtures with such visceral disdain, one must look past the sanitized briefings and leaks in Washington and toward the actual smoke and sirens that have defined life in Tehran over the last year.

By Saleh Abidi Maleki

Iran's conditions after two betrayed negotiations

TEHRAN – Donald Trump is talking to himself. That’s how Iranian officials view the U.S. president’s claims of “successful” and “productive” negotiations with Tehran. According to Iranians, the president has started a war he cannot finish and is desperate to end it. But rather than pursuing diplomacy, his recent overtures are merely ploys to keep oil prices from rising further while he prepares to escalate the conflict.

Trump’s 15-point plan: Coercion disguised as diplomacy

TEHRAN - In the fourth week of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran, Trump’s 15-point ceasefire proposal has emerged not as a genuine peace initiative but as a coercive package designed to force Iran into strategic submission — a plan that Tehran has swiftly and decisively rejected as unacceptable. From Iran’s perspective, the proposal is not a negotiation framework but an attempt to dictate terms under the shadow of ongoing military aggression.

Are Witkoff and Kushner U.S. envoys — or Israel’s agents in Washington?

TEHRAN - Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have become two of the most controversial figures in the US–Israel war against Iran, and nearly a month into the conflict their role is under sharper scrutiny than ever. 

By Dr. Jin Liangxiang, Director, Center for Middle East Studies, SIIS

Iran’s anti-US-Israeli war: A conflict set to reshape the global order

SHANGHAI - The military campaign against Iran, spearheaded by the United States and Israel, is already demonstrating a potential to eclipse the Russia-Ukraine war in its long-term consequences for the global order. Despite recent signals from the Trump administration hinting at a desire for a ceasefire, the domestic political realities in both Israel and Iran make an immediate ceasefire unlikely. Regardless of its eventual outcome, this conflict is poised to inflict a deeper and more enduring scar on the international system than its predecessor in Eastern Europe.