By Nishant Kumar Hota In Iran’s modern history, the recurring fact is simple and unromantic. Protest begins in the street, but it is the Bazaar that decides whether a revolt lives or dies. In the rough triangle of the Palace, the Mosque, and the Bazaar, the merchants form the most practical link between belief and …
The Iranian Tipping Point, The Decisive Role of the Bazaar Read More »
By ISSF Admin The Fracture of the Khaleeji Shield The air over the Gulf of Aden was thick with humidity and the smell of salt spray on the morning of December 30, 2025. In the ancient port city of Mukalla, Yemen, dockworkers were busy unloading the Greenland, a cargo vessel flagged out of St. Kitts. …
Brothers in Blood: The Secret War Between Saudi and the UAE Read More »
By Professor Habib Al Badawi Abstract Sanae Takaichi’s October 2025 ascent to Japan’s premiership marks a structural reorientation of Japanese governance beyond a simple Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership transition. I term this shift “command governance”— a model that centralizes decision-making in the Prime Minister’s Office, prioritizes executive action over consensus-building, and transforms fiscal policy …
Governing by Resolve: The Takaichi Effect on Japan’s Domestic Power Architecture Read More »
By: ISSF Strategic Desk | January 11, 2026 As of this morning, the Islamic Republic of Iran is not just trembling; it is undergoing a tectonic dissolution. The streets of Tehran are no longer arenas of protest but battlegrounds of a revolutionary endgame. The Rial has cratered, trading at a catastrophic 1.45 million to the …
By ISSF Admin (@mujifren) On the night of November 26, 2008, as the first bullets shattered the glass at the Leopold Cafe, the Indian state did not just stumble; it fell into a coma. For sixty harrowing hours, ten terrorists held a metropolis of twenty million people hostage. But the true tragedy of 26/11 was …
Anatomy of a Surrender: The Night Delhi Slept While Mumbai Burned Read More »
By ISSF Admin @mujifren Prologue: The Smog of Deception In the choking winter smog of Dhaka, December 2025, the air did not just smell of exhaust and burning refuse; it reeked of a nation decomposing. To the uninitiated observer, the chaos gripping Bangladesh might have appeared as the tragic growing pains of a “Second Revolution,” …
Who Killed Osman Hadi? The Truth Behind the Smoke and the Fire on India’s Border Read More »
Authored By: Prof. Habib Badawi, Mr. Ali Kassab ABSTRACT This study examines the December 2024 collapse of the Syrian regime as a case of intelligence-led displacement—regime change achieved through covert paralysis of command structures rather than military defeat. Within eleven days, a government that survived thirteen years of civil war ceased functioning without decisive battle, …
By Habib-Al Badawi Introduction: The End of an Era The November 2025 National Security Strategy represents the first comprehensive articulation since the Cold War’s end of an American vision that explicitly abandons ideological frameworks shaping global posture for three decades. The document positions the United States not as the architect of “liberal order” but as …
By ISSF Admin @mujifren PROLOGUE: THE SILENCE OF GRAVITY Karachi, December 2016. Physics is impartial. When a body falls from the 8th floor of a building, the result is inevitable. But the death of Javed Khanani was not a matter of physics; it was a matter of geopolitics. On a dusty afternoon in the upscale …
THE BANKER, THE GENERAL, THE GANGSTER: The Trinity That Bled India Read More »
By ISSF Admin (@mujifren) The Mediterranean sun that bathes the beaches of Antalya is sold to the world as a symbol of warmth and hospitality. For millions, it is paradise. But for a group of Ukrainian orphans who fled the horrors of Russian bombardment only to land in the predatory grip of their supposed protectors, …
Turkey’s National Shame: The Betrayal of Ukrainian Orphans Read More »
