“One can only hope that someone has carefully studied the lessons of past actions, conflicts, and revolutions and is planning a better future for the Iranian people.”

Transatlantic tensions increasingly stem from conflicting views on democracy and sovereignty, Peek says.

“The best response to the violence is not hatred, but the daily courage of those who continue to believe that ideas are fought with other ideas. Never with violence.”

“Europe will only be able to manage its relationship with Muslim communities more effectively if it honestly acknowledges its own Christian identity.”

“The Taliban were terrorists yesterday, they are terrorists today, and they will be terrorists tomorrow. There is no peace with terrorists.”

“Replacing a population is not a solution. It is the admission of a nation’s defeat.”

“The Balkans should not be treated as Europe’s backyard but as a strategically central position.”

A Christian ethos shapes the daily life, work, art, and culture of Armenians like me, nourishing a worldview that honours personal dignity.

“Iran has a better chance of being liberated than Iraq, because I see that most Iranians are fighting.”

“No one denies that disinformation exists. The problem is that, in this case, the remedy may be worse than the disease.”

“All this rhetoric that frightens the West so much, about a country willing to sacrifice itself and unleash an apocalypse if attacked, is nothing more than a strategy.”

“What is striking in Draghi’s speech is what is absent: any reference to democratic consent.”