As Iran’s role in Afghanistan’s future appears uncertain, it is up to diplomacy and para-diplomacy to address this handicap—but without Qatar on its side, Tehran’s efforts to gain a foothold in Afghanistan could be shunned by regional and international actors, writes Banafsheh Keynoush.

The term “post-COVID-19 world” has already entered our collective lexicon just as the “post-9/11 world” did more than two decades ago, and the “post-war world” did after the end of World War II, writes Ibrahim al-Marashi.