In this article, Ambassador (retd.) Prabhat Prakash Shukla examines the evolving Iran–Israel conflict through the intersecting lenses of nuclear diplomacy, regional geopolitics, and great-power competition, arguing that the current war must be understood as an extension of the October 2023 Hamas attack and Iran’s wider “ring of fire” strategy. Iranian flags hang next to a missile on display during the forty-seventh anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, Februa
A month after Russia and the US declared their intentions of resuming nuclear testing, the global nuclear order and security landscape remains shrouded in uncertainty. This article analyses the ambiguity behind the threats and allegations of nuclear testing, the history of nuclear threat mongering between Russia and the United States, as well as the extent to which these developments are mere rhetoric or actual strategic signals. It has been a month since the threat of renew
