This article is authored by Col Rajeev Agarwal (rtd), senior research consultant, CRF.

In its decision to launch a war against Iran in a bid to gain exclusive control over access to Persian oil and gas resources, the United States has ignored a harsh reality: Geography trumps military ...

Nima Moradi was a 23-year-old sailor on his maiden voyage aboard Anna, a commercial ship in the Caspian Sea, carrying iron from Russia to Iran. He was from the port city of Bandar Anzali in northern ...

Central Asia understands that its new trade corridors should be optimized for strategic flexibility and diversification. The Iran War did not redraw the map of trade in the Middle East and its ...