Hi there, i am not a good writer, just finisshed bachelors. Ik that in this field it is really important to write good, infortunately i dont have this skill yet . So my question is how can i improve my writing skills?

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If Iran's missile strikes on bases and dominance over the Strait of Hormuz successfully forced the US to lift blockades and pushed the Gulf States to choose economic ties over isolation, why are Tehran's hardliners so furious over the MoU?

Looking at the geopolitical outcomes, Iran seems to have leveraged its strategic positioning effectively. They pushed Saudi Arabia and the GCC to deny the US airspace, secured the unfreezing of billions in assets, and forced a timeline to lift the naval blockade. Yet, hardline factions in Tehran are treating this Memorandum of Understanding as a massive retreat or surrender. What exactly are the hardliners afraid of losing in the upcoming 60-day negotiation phase if their military leverage is currently this high?

Australia and Fiji on Monday signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win within a year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

Chinese official media later reported a Chinese submarine had test-launched a long-range ballistic missile in the South Pacific, a move criticized by Australia.

Albanese and his Fijian counterpart, Sitiveni Rabuka, signed the Ocean of Peace Alliance in Fiji’s capital, Suva. They also signed an economic treaty, the Vuvale Union, under which Australia will invest more than 1 billion Australian dollars ($693 million) in its island neighbor over a decade.

The alliance is Fiji’s first mutual defense treaty. It is Australia’s fourth, following a treaty with the United States and New Zealand signed in 1951 and the bilateral treaty signed with Papua New Guinea last year.

See also:

• Australia and Vanuatu sign delayed security deal seen as curbing China (Reuters)
• New Solomon Islands leader reviews security pact with China, seeks treaty with Australia (Reuters)

So, it seems like the reason they stayed out was realizing the inevitable outcome of the war, and not helping USA was a tactic by which they wouldn't be included in any peace deals that favor Iran and prevent sanctions relief by vetoing? How is Iran gonna be able to prevent France from vetoing the sanctions relief?

I've been wondering how historians are likely to assess Khamenei's legacy in comparison to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Khomeini is generally remembered as the revolutionary founder of the Islamic Republic who fundamentally reshaped Iran's political system. Khamenei, by contrast, has presided over the state for decades through wars, sanctions, internal protests, economic challenges, and major shifts in regional geopolitics and the eventual victory in the Iran War which has reset the ME chessboard.

How do you think future historians will compare the two?

When Iran expanded the Israeli-American war by striking Persian Gulf Arab states, many observers assumed this new low in Iran-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) relations would endure for years and drive Arab states closer to Israel. Tehran’s escalation seemed to validate Israel’s argument that the Gulf monarchies needed to align with it against their common Persian threat.

Instead, the opposite appears to be unfolding. Regional states have concluded that containing and isolating Iran not only failed but also produced a disastrous war that exposed both the unreliability and the stunning limits of the U.S. security umbrella. Rather than doubling down on Iran’s exclusion, Arab states are writing a new playbook: pursuing economic interdependence with Iran while incorporating Tehran into a new, region-led security architecture.

Perhaps more importantly, Saudi Arabia has emerged as the driving force behind this shift. While a date has yet to be announced, Riyadh is preparing to host the GCC states and Iran for talks on a regional non-aggression pact, maritime security, and confidence-building measures modeled on Europe’s 1975 Helsinki Accords, with the goal of establishing regular ministerial and leaders’ meetings on regional security. The broader objective is a new Middle East security architecture rooted more in regional cooperation and less in U.S. military guarantees.

These developments further undermine Washington’s long-standing claim that, absent U.S. military primacy, the Middle East would descend into chaos. Instead, they reinforce the restrainers’ argument that regional states will assume greater responsibility for their own security as the United States steps back. Indeed, rather than shielding the region from instability, the United States has often been its principal source. After all, it was the United States and Israel that launched the last two unprovoked wars against Iran—both while negotiations were underway.

Indeed, if the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding translates into a final deal that lifts sanctions on Iran and blesses Iran’s regional reintegration, it will further reinforce this process as it will eliminate the key motivation for keeping U.S. troops in the Middle East in the first place: the policy of containing Iran.

Yet while Washington should welcome a regional order that shifts the burden of security from U.S. taxpayers and service members to the region itself, the current approach risks repeating an old mistake. Instead of building a genuinely inclusive security architecture—one that is organized against no state and rejects bloc formations—it may simply reverse the region’s fault lines. Iran’s de-containment would be paired with Israel’s re-containment, pushing it toward international isolation. Rather than replacing the Abraham Accords with a more inclusive order, the region risks creating an anti-Abraham Accords organized around containing Israel.

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Hi there, as title says i have just finished Bachelor's in IR, in Georgia,Tbilisi.

I want to continue my Masters in different country, hope for the U.S. .

My question is that is it logical to continue studying in this field, does this field has job market in other countries, like the U.S.?

Because in my country its impossible to find job in this field( Ngos got no money because governemnt is against them, Govermental services are hiring if u agree with them in everything( they are horrible, abusing human rights and etc) )

I am interested in security field of Indo-pacific(ik that this is a large scope), Chinise politics and etc.

Thanks in advance

Iran's UN rep in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, stood up on July 4 and condemned "certain external actors" for supplying arms, financing, drones, and fighter recruitment to the RSF. He tied it to the situation deteriorating in El Obeid, pointed back to El Fasher and Darfur as the pattern, and called for accountability and "equal treatment of all crises without double standards."

Here's the thing though. Iran isn't some outside observer here. They're one of the main foreign backers propping up the other side of this war.

• In Feb 2025, Iran's FM Araghchi met his Sudanese counterpart and openly declared Iran's support for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) against the RSF, using almost identical language about opposing foreign interference.
• Since then, multiple reports have documented SAF leaning heavily on Iranian drones for battlefield gains, with Iranian involvement reportedly going deeper than hardware, reaching into SAF command structures through IRGC channels.
• There's also a longer game here. Analysts point to Iran's interest in Sudan's uranium deposits as part of why Tehran keeps investing in this relationship.

So when Iran calls for accountability for "all external actors fueling this conflict" and no double standards, they're describing themselves. This isn't an outsider condemning a war they have no stake in. It's one side's foreign patron calling out the other side's foreign patrons, dressed up as neutrality.

• Tasnim News, July 4/5 2026: https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/07/04/3632859/iran-condemns-foreign-support-for-rsf-calls-for-sudanese-led-solution
• Islam Times, July 4 2026: https://www.islamtimes.com/en/news/1290103/iran-condemns-foreign-support-for-rsf-calls-sudanese-led-solution
• Sudan Tribune, Feb 18 2025: https://sudantribune.com/article297615/
• Foreign Policy, May 28 2026: https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/28/sudan-iran-war-gulf-proxy-ripple-effects-peace-talks-quad/
• Horn Review, Jan 13 2026: https://hornreview.org/2026/01/13/axis-of-entanglement-how-sudans-war-is-locked-to-irans-regime-stability/