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By Dr. Samir Altaqi In response to Iranian piracy in the Arabian Gulf, President Trump announced on March 3, 2026, that the United States would provide political insurance and guarantees for maritime commerce, and above all for the energy shipments that move through the Gulf. After the war in Ukraine, and then Iranian piracy, the back of the guarantee system underwriting world trade was broken, nowhere more than in the Gulf. Capitalist civilization, after all, arose and stood

By Samir al-Taqi The framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel is not merely a tool for a ceasefire; it is a refounding of the Lebanese homeland and of the sovereignty in whose name every violation has so long been sanctioned. The true significance of this moment lies in its shifting of the Lebanese question from the logic of conflict—managed by militias—to the logic of state responsibility. The agreement, signed in Washington on June 26, 2026, creates a practical basis

By Samir al-Taqi How much time remains before Iran crosses the nuclear threshold and becomes a nuclear state? Estimates by prominent American experts suggest that if Iran can neutralize the United States and keep the facilities of its nuclear program beyond the reach of American strikes, it would need only a few months to reach the stage of “weapons-grade uranium,” and between one and three years to complete a bomb and acquire the means to deliver it. And yet these precise fi

By Samir al-Taqi It is no longer a secret: the American-Syrian decision to impose a Syrian tutelage over Lebanon. It has already become a practical fact, its features visible in the movements of “undisciplined” fighters in northern Lebanon. The Syrian authorities, it seems, are walking willingly into one quagmire after another. In his recent interview with Al-Mashhad, Ahmad al-Sharaa cast himself as the holder of some superior diagnosis of the Lebanese crisis: “some Lebanese”