Amine Ayoub
ARTICLES BY: Amine Ayoub
The Doha Trap: How Iran Is Using Hormuz to Extort the West
The diplomatic push in Doha is not a breakthrough in regional peacemaking; it is an exercise in extortion. As Qatar and Pakistan lead talks between Washington...
US Intelligence Warns of Advanced Iranian Plots Against Americans as Europe Keeps Talks Open
On Oct. 23, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton sent an unclassified warning to Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Iran had substantially increased efforts...
Saudi Arabia Is No Longer a Bystander; It’s Part of the Middle East’s Security Perimeter
Attacks claimed by the Houthis targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Abha International Airport, killing three people and injuring 36, according to Saudi...
Russia Is Helping Iran Build a Postwar Escape Hatch
By every standard metric of warfare and Battle Damage Assessment (BDA), the campaign to degrade the Iranian regime looks like a triumph. But BDA is a...
Sánchez’s Scapegoat: How Spain Uses Israel to Mask Its Border Crisis
When tens of thousands of unauthorized migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in late July 2026, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez faced a catastrophic...
The Iraqi Disarmament Scam: How Baghdad Launders Iran’s Proxy Empire
As the Sept. 30 deadline for the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Iraq approaches, a dangerous illusion takes hold. Facing international pressure to establish...
The Mirage of the Riyadh Shield: Why MBS Refuses to Strike Tehran and What It Means for Israel
As joint US-Saudi airstrikes target Iranian proxies in Iraq following a fresh wave of regional aggression, Riyadh continues to play a calculated game of evasion....
The Jihadist in a Tailored Suit: How Syria’s New Parliament Is Fooling the West
On July 12, 2026, the newly formed Syrian People's Assembly convened in Damascus for its inaugural session, creating a meticulously crafted illusion of a modern...
Saudi Arabia’s Iran Silence Is a Strategic Calculation, Not a Scheduling Conflict
When France invited Egypt, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates to a dedicated Arab-leaders session at the G-7 summit in Evian on June 16 to...
Trump Called Erdogan ‘My Friend’ — but Turkey’s Behavior Is Anything but Friendly
On June 10, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told AKP lawmakers that Israel's strikes on Lebanon and Syria had "brought the issue to a point...
The US Vote to End the War Shows That Iran’s Pressure Strategy Is Working
The vote was 215-208. Four Republicans crossed the aisle. Cheers erupted in the chamber. For the first time, the US House of Representatives approved a...
Could the Iran War End with Tehran’s Uranium in China’s Vaults?
When American and Iranian negotiators first began sketching the contours of a ceasefire framework, the central verification problem was always the same: where does the...
Hezbollah Is Using the ‘Ceasefire’ to Produce More Drones for War Against Israel
Every ceasefire brokered over Lebanon in the last two decades has been sold to Western publics as a humanitarian achievement. In practice, every one of...
Trump’s Effort to Open the Strait of Hormuz: Saudi Arabia Decided Washington Isn’t Worth the Risk
There is a structural problem with Gulf Arab reliability that "Project Freedom" -- President Trump's plan to secure the Strait of Hormuz for global transit...
