The MOU is apparently dead. According to both Trump and Iran. The reason it is dead is largely the result of lies, deceits, and a lack of honesty by the USA when it comes to behaving within the constraints of the document. The US mainstream media continues to lie in ways George Orwell would recognize, especially Fox.
Permettez-moi de la résumer. Au cours de la guerre de 12 jours en juin 2025, les missiles et drones iraniens ont peiné face à la guerre électronique élaborée menée par Israël et les États-Unis. Le brouillage et la falsification du GPS ont perturbé à plusieurs reprises leurs systèmes de guidage, limitant ainsi leur efficacité pendant cet intense conflit de 12 jours. Au début de l’année 2026, la dynamique du champ de bataille a radicalement changé. Les frappes de précision iraniennes ont commencé à contourner les défenses aériennes avancées, touchant des cibles sensibles à travers le Golfe avec une précision surprenante. Les analystes du renseignement ont mis en avant un facteur clé : l’Iran a abandonné le GPS au profit du système de navigation par satellite chinois Beidou.
First, there was the Technocrat-in-Chief meeting on July 14 with an up-and-coming, newly selected Technocrat Prime Minister from Iraq, Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaidi. Secondly, the multi-billion-dollar deals flowed like the Euphrates River.
Lors du sommet de l’OTAN à Ankara, le Luxembourg s’est positionné comme l’un des plus fervents défenseurs d’un réarmement européen accéléré. Pour un pays de seulement 700 000 habitants, solidement ancré en Europe occidentale et quasiment dépourvu d’armée permanente, cette position n’est manifestement pas motivée par des impératifs de défense. Son calcul est purement financier.
Alors que les médias occidentaux continuent de diffuser des récits décrivant un fossé grandissant entre les États-Unis et l’Europe concernant le conflit en cours en Ukraine — un récit mettant en scène des États-Unis de plus en plus désintéressés et désengagés face à une Europe de plus en plus désespérée et belliqueuse —, il est important de rappeler précisément comment cette guerre a éclaté et pourquoi, ainsi que la réalité concrète qui détermine sa poursuite.
Former senior U.S. defense officials join a Russia expert to discuss how the Iran crisis is shaping Moscow’s military, political, and economic ambitions in the region.
On July 9, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Matthew Tavares, Keith Kellogg, and Anna Borshchevskaya. Tavares is a former Pentagon official with two decades of experience in U.S. national security affairs. Kellogg is a highly decorated U.S. Army officer who has served as special presidential envoy for Ukraine and senior national security advisor to the president, among other posts. Borshchevskaya is the Harold Grinspoon Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute’s Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, and coauthor (with Tavares) of its 2026 report “After Ukraine: Prospects for a Russian Resurgence in the Middle East.” The event was moderated by veteran journalist and author Christian Caryl. The following is a rapporteurs’ summary of their remarks.
As long as the group’s economic, political, and institutional ecosystem remains intact, officials will need to pair disarmament efforts with a sustained strategy to target financial networks, political influence, and judicial infiltration.
The US’s tactical military successes in the Strait of Hormuz do not solve the strategic problem, as Iran uses asymmetric tactics, turning US military dominance into an endless and costly conflict with no clear political outcome.
Elsewhere, Slovakia’s referendum fails over low turnout, Hungary heads for a presidential showdown, and Czechia’s double delegation to the NATO summit sparks controversy.
A scandal involving a young doctor linked to the ruling Civic Coalition (KO) has dominated Polish politics for weeks, prompting dismissals, criminal investigations and a wider reckoning over the management of the country’s public healthcare system.
epa07087409 Turkish soldiers secure the area in front of the Aliaga Prison Court in Izmir, Turkey, 12 October 2018. Brunson’s next trial will be held at Aliaga Prison Court on 12 October and he has been in custody for two years under terror and espionage charges. The US has announced on 01 August 2018 it will impose sanctions on Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit and Turkish Minister of the Interior Suleyman Soylu over the arrest and detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson. EPA/ERDEM SAHIN
There are proven ways to address the widescale abuses enacted by Turkish authorities since a failed coup in July 2016. But all of them require political will and civic energy.
Ten years have passed since the failed coup of July 15, 2016, in Turkey. Authorities blamed an army faction loyal to the so-called Gulen Movement, branded the ‘Fetullahist Terrorist Organization’, FETO, and declared a threat to national security.