Happy to announce my new book, Original Sin: Israel, Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia. Will release the book on December 15 at the Bangalore Lit Fest, with @HarperCollinsIN. You can preorder it here:

Trump says Iran has not agreed to inspections or given up enrichment. I thought everything was "totally obliterated".

Israel bombed a cafe in Gaza. At least 29 people were killed. Nine of them were women, and several were children or teenagers. Among the victims were artists, students, social activists, a female boxer, a footballer and cafe staff. Now read the BBC headline.

EU wanted China to tell them this to know this?

IR and Journalism -- an interview .

When the Taliban were in power in #Afghanistan in the second half of the 1990s, only three countries had recognised them — Pakistan, of course, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Russia, India, Iran, Central Asian republics were all supporting the Northern Alliance, which held some.

Before June 13, the Russians had at least sent signals about a diplomatic solution. They declared two pauses in fighting, agreed to spare energy infra for a short period, and sent its team to Istanbul despite Ukraine's drone attack on its bombers. But Trump's Iran attack seems to.

RT @the_hindu: Faced with an ageing population and growing labour shortage, Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is turning towards other cou….

The Economist, which wrote last week that Israel secured a "dazzling, daunting and dangerous victory" against Iran, now writes the war "was not transformative but merely inconclusive"! .

The Iranian military loaded naval mines onto vessels in the Gulf in June, a move that intensified concerns in DC that Tehran was gearing up to blockade the Strait of Hormuz following Israel's strikes on sites across Iran, according to U.S. officials.

In the near to medium term, India should be prepared for three key challenges. 1. The possibility of secondary sanctions by the US against counties buying Russian oil and gas. This could seriously affect India's crude imports; 2. The possibility of war breaking out again between.

What's next for Iran and Israel?.

An analyst who believes Modi is the President of India is discussing Indian foreign policy--and an Editor who can't catch this basic mistake is publishing it. Excellent. @Telegraph, please at least change it to Prime Minister Modi in the copy. The article was published on July 1,.

The succession plan for the next Dalai Lama will be decided by a trust, not the Chinese government, asserted the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, making it clear for the first time that he believes he will be reincarnated: @suhasinih reports.

Iran’s suspension of cooperation with the IAEA would mean that Iran’s nuclear programme, which the U.S. and Israel failed to destroy, goes dark. Iran technically remains a signatory of NPT, but if the IAEA lost access to Iran’s nuclear activities, NPT is practically meaningless.

Will ceasefire hold between Iran and Israel? -- I write in the latest View from India, TH's weekly newsletter on foreign affairs.

The world is an anarchic place .

Iran officially suspends cooperation with the IAEA. What's next? Exiting NPT?.

Israel is making its already weak defence weaker by sending ministers & diplomats to Piers Morgan. Watch this show. Listen to the doctor who served in Gaza. He talks about headless babies; children's organs in bodybags, kids with sniper holes in heads.

RT @the_hindu: In this week's edition of The View from India newsletter, @johnstanly writes about the Iran-Israel ceasefire hold. Subscrib….

RT @johnstanly: Video alert. Discussing the Iran-Israel war, India's West Asia interests and the global disorder, with Amrita Tripathi. Wat….