Who controls the Panama Canal?

President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to regain U.S. ownership of the Panama Canal, which the United States previously controlled until a treaty transferred full ownership to Panama in 1999. Trump’s bluntly stated desire, alongside comments he has made about acquiring Greenland, would violate the international principle of sovereignty and decades of U.S. foreign policy norms if translated into action. The canal facilitates hundreds of billions of dollars of trade each year. It is a central point for international commerce, vital to U.S. supply chains, and critical to Panama’s standing as a regional trade hub. Yet, China’s growing commercial ties to Panama and the region have fueled U.S. concerns about Beijing’s broader role in global shipping and port operations.

By Mona Hojat

From Carter to Biden, American presidents owe Iran an apology

TEHRAN – Writing an opinion piece in the Newsweek on July 18, Lisa Daftari naively credits Jimmy Carter for the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and believes that the 98-year-old who served as the 39th president of the United States owes the Iranian people an “apology”.

By Yuram Abdullah Weiler

The Islamic Revolution at 44: Thwarting the capitalist contagion of western secular democracy

“The tyrannies, transgressions and arrogance of Alexanders and Genghises which in the past they perpetrated by force, nowadays the powerful and civilized democracies of the world collectively impose on the weaker nations.”— Allamah Seyyed Mohammad Hosayn Tabataba’i

Carter ordered CIA to topple Islamic Republic 10 months after the revolution: document

TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Monday that based on a credible American institute 10 months after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Jimmy Carter ordered CIA director Stansfield Turner to topple the Islamic Republic system.