Open Dialogue Research Journal
The reactivation of the UN snapback mechanism has placed Iran under renewed pressure at a moment of growing global instability. Designed as a safeguard in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the snapback provision restores international sanctions if a party is deemed in violation. For policymakers in Washington, […]
Iran’s absence from the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit is often dismissed as recalcitrance or obstructionism. But viewed through the prism of recent events, it becomes clear that Tehran chose nonparticipation as a strategic judgment on legitimacy, risk, and leverage. In a moment when U.S. and European powers are resurrecting the […]
“Peace is war.” George Orwell Guarimba is a derogatory name in Venezuela for a person who participates in street riots and pogroms. On October 10, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was announced. This person turned out to be Maria Corina Machado, an oppositionist from Venezuela, who called on […]
It wasn’t expected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone’s surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially at the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of […]
On September 26, China and Russia formally proposed a six-month delay in the activation of the UN’s “snapback” mechanism against Iran. At first glance, this might appear to be a procedural maneuver another bargaining chip in the endless cycle of nuclear disputes and sanctions diplomacy. Yet the timing, substance, and […]
A new study using advanced sensing technology has taken a fresh look at the damaged Iranian nuclear site, Fordow. It is not the first time that satellite technology has revealed important strategic security information. Landsat The Landsat system was launched in July, 1972, initially called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. […]
Introduction On August 26, 2025, Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador, Ahmad Sadeghi, citing unsubstantiated claims of Iran’s involvement in antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023. This unprecedented move, the first ambassadorial expulsion since World War II, coincided with the European troika’s nuclear deadline for Iran, raising questions about its […]
How do we commemorate it? The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history. Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted […]
On July 20, 2025, Ali Larijani senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader and former speaker of parliament made a discreet but highly symbolic visit to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. While no major public statement followed, the timing, nature, and geopolitical context of the meeting invite […]
De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the person or entity that exerts retribution […]
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