The Irish Times View on the Conflict in the Gulf: Risks of Chaos and Civil War

[W]hat the Switzerland negotiations ultimately lead to may help determine who the next U.S. president will be, as much as they will define the rules of the game in the Middle East.

The madness of this war is all the more evident now that it has achieved none of its initial objectives.

[T]he global economy remains in a state of suspended hope and not yet on a path toward definitive recovery.

The shrinking of ambitions away from the Indian Ocean ... suggests that the [U.S] is ceding the continent, including West Asia, to China.

All of Trump and Macron's attempts to gloss over this charade and downplay Iran's threats are deceptive and hypocritical.

The island cannot continue to be ruled by a statist, militaristic, totalitarian and corrupt caste that controls the entire nation.

The 14 proposed points read as though they were dictated by the Iranian regime[.]

Deference and appeasement can never be the right strategy.