Widening divide between the US and Europe

TEHRAN – The world is living through one of the most sensitive periods in international relations, a time when the “Atlantic Alliance” has faced a storm called Trumpism after decades of stability.

By Garsha Vazirian

NATO grapples with its unraveling under Washington’s predatory hegemony

TEHRAN — The official communiques emerging from the NATO foreign ministers’ gathering in Helsingborg, Sweden, spoke of enhanced burden sharing and a stronger, fairer alliance. Behind those anodyne formulations lies a transatlantic partnership in an advanced state of political decomposition.

Strait of Hormuz closure shakes Europe: Oil price forecast soars 46%

TEHRAN – The European Commission has issued a stark warning that the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz – triggered by the ongoing war in West Asia – will drive Brent crude prices to an average of $91.2 per barrel in 2026, a staggering 46% jump from previous estimates. The revised forecast, published Thursday in the EU’s Spring 2026 Economic Outlook, signals what officials call the most severe energy shock to hit Europe since the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

European tourists shift travel plans closer to home amid West Asia conflict

TEHRAN - European tourists are increasingly choosing destinations closer to home as conflict in West Asia raises security concerns and drives up the cost of long-haul travel, affecting tourism flows across parts of Asia and the Middle East while benefiting southern European countries, industry officials and analysts said.

By Ranjan Solomon

Europe’s sluggish drift into irrelevance

Europe as spectator in a changing world order

GOA - Europe is currently experiencing a profound and rapid decline in its global political and economic influence, characterized by a shift toward irrelevance on the world stage, internal fragmentation, and economic stagnation.

European medicine supplies at risk due to Iran tensions

TEHRAN – European countries could face significant shortages of medicines and essential pharmaceutical components if tensions surrounding Iran escalate and lead to a blockade of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, according to a recent analysis.

Europe faces summer travel chaos as jet fuel crisis deepens

TEHRAN- Europe is bracing for a devastating summer travel crisis as a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sends jet fuel prices skyrocketing, threatening mass flight cancellations and airline bankruptcies, according to a report by Deutsche Welle.

By Garsha Vazirian

The war on Iran broke the NATO protection racket

The war exposed a legacy of American control that stretches back to the shadows of Operation Gladio

TEHRAN — The 2026 U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has incinerated the 70-old myth of Atlantic solidarity. What was sold to the world for decades as an ironclad shield has been exposed as a hollow ritual, sustained by habit and propaganda but incapable of surviving a genuine collision with reality.

By Garsha Vazirian

Europe's reckoning and the wages of submission

TEHRAN — There is a particular kind of cowardice that dresses itself in the language of responsibility.

By Shahrokh Saei 

Kushner’s overreach in France: A wake-up call for European independence

TEHRAN – Recent tensions between Paris and Washington over U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner go beyond a routine diplomatic spat—they expose America’s bullying, coercive, and domineering behavior, rather than just a disagreement between allies.

By Soheila Zarfam 

'Munich Circus': Under destruction

Sidelined in Ukraine and ignored in West Asia, Europe sacrifices its diplomatic standing to appease Israel

TEHRAN – What the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has become is nothing short of a “circus”. That's the assessment from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi regarding the annual event. He shared this blunt view on his X account, likely after witnessing the son of a deposed king—who fled the country with hundreds of millions in Iranian wealth almost five decades ago—being invited to the event to claim popular desire for his monarchical restoration. 

By staff writer

Munich Security Conference exposes a fracturing U.S.–Europe alliance

TEHRAN – The 2026 Munich Security Conference unfolded as a public display of growing strategic and ideological divergence between the United States and Europe. While officials on both sides reaffirmed their commitment to NATO and the transatlantic partnership, the tone and substance of their remarks revealed a widening gap over leadership, values, and the future structure of Western power.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Trump, Greenland, and the fracturing of globalization

TEHRAN – Donald Trump’s repeated talks about taking control of Greenland were widely mocked at first. 

By Wesam Bahrani 

Europe and Trump: Strategic paralysis and the end of a unified West

TEHRAN – Europe’s survival and its position on the global stage now hinge on a critical moment of self-reflection. 

By Fatemeh Kavand

IRGC: From the frontline of the fight against ISIS to Europe’s political labeling

TEHRAN - The European Union has placed Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) on its list of “terrorist organizations,” a move driven not by objective realities on the ground but by Western political tendencies. This comes despite the IRGC’s central role in defeating ISIS and confronting terrorist groups in the region—a reality that exposes the West’s double standards in defining terrorism.

From ‘dirty work’ to ‘great things’: How Europe became America’s lackey

By Saleh Abidi Maleki 

TEHRAN – “Do you still believe that by helping the United States commit its crimes we will be safe?” Irene Montero, Spain’s representative in the European Parliament, asked her colleagues this week. It was not a rhetorical flourish so much as an indictment.

By staff writer 

Davos showdown over Greenland: Europe confronts Trump, faces its costly US reliance 

TEHRAN — Europe and the United States remain locked in a tense political standoff. That tension was on full display at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, where European leaders openly criticized President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland and his threats to impose new tariffs on European countries. Their remarks underscored a growing sense of frustration in Europe over Washington’s increasingly confrontational approach.

By staff writer 

Hostage to the hegemon: How Trump's Greenland tariff exposes Europe's strategic impotence

TEHRAN — The tariff threat issued by US President Donald Trump over Greenland represents a profound rupture in the logic of the transatlantic relationship. It is not merely an economic measure, nor even a diplomatic provocation, but a demonstration of how far Washington is willing to go to impose its will on its closest allies.

By Soheila Zarfam 

UNSC session shows West failed in snapback gamble 

Meeting sees US and Europe defend hardline stance, Iran and allies call for end to failed approach

TEHRAN – Western states dragged Iran and members of the UN Security Council to a session on Tuesday to push for the implementation of pre-JCPOA UN sanctions against Iran, which the E3 (Germany, UK, France) managed to be reinstated back in August, but faced substantial challenges in implementing them due to opposition from a host of countries, including Iran’s most powerful allies, Russia and China.