Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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REPORT: What the Islamabad memorandum truly promised on June 17
On June 17, 2026, two signatures sealed, on two different continents, the same fragile promise of peace. Donald Trump put his name to the…
FACT-CHECK: Pickaxe Mountain, the underground site worrying the whole West
There are facts that no diplomacy can erase, and the satellite imagery released on July 11, 2026, is one of them. According to images…
DECODING: How the US Navy Plans to Force the Strait of Hormuz Back Open
The United States Navy has launched an operation explicitly designed to break Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, publicly designated Operation Project Freedom,…
ANALYSIS: The UN Calls for Restraint as the Iran Ceasefire Falls Apart
The United Nations Security Council found itself, once again in early July 2026, in the uncomfortable position of publicly calling for "maximum restraint" between…
REPORT: Fear Grows Around Bushehr as Nuclear Risk Resurfaces in Iran
The Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran's only operational civilian reactor, has returned in a matter of days to the center of international concern.
ANALYSIS: Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait Come Under Iranian Missile Fire
The US-Iran conflict crossed, on July 9 and 10, 2026, a new geographic frontier. It is no longer only Iranian territory or the Strait…
DECODING: Oil's War Risk Premium Explodes After Hormuz Shuts Down
It took only one night of American strikes on nearly 140 targets belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to send the global oil…
REPORT: FDD accuses Iran of secretly violating the Islamabad agreement
On July 8, 2026, even as the body of the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei was completing its funeral journey between Iran and Iraq,…
FACT-CHECK: Did the IRGC really target three commercial ships in the Gulf
Since the attacks that occurred on July 6 and 7, 2026 against commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the versions circulating on social…