The monumental rise of the Axis of Resistance – from Palestine to Syria to Lebanon to Iraq to Yemen – in 2023 has set new equations in the region and rattled the United States and the Israeli regime.

The Al-Aqsa Storm Operation has done more than cement the new equation in Palestine. It is actively contributing to shaping the region's new face in a multipolar world.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi delivered a thumping speech to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, touching on many critical issues and earning plaudits from all and sundry.

America’s educational and cultural diplomacy is in fact a cover for its non-military interference in other countries, to finally secure its interests globally.

Under the name of nation-building projects, the Americans have sought to advance their own policies of imposing hegemony on other countries. Iraq and Afghanistan are just two cases in point.

The United States has long been drawing on cultural diplomacy as a soft power in order to maintain and spread its hegemony in different countries with different cultures.

The US president signed a strategic partnership deal with Vietnam on Sunday. China had already been irked.