The memorandum of understanding with the United States has been presented in Tehran as a political victory. And this new position of strength is leading the Islamic Republic to rethink its regional relations and the system of alliances that has sustained its influence in the Middle East for the last four decades. "The enemy that launched the aggression failed in all its malicious objectives and the Islamic Republic achieved great victories," assured a few days ago the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, summarizing the regime's interpretation of the agreement reached with Washington.

When he had only been in office for a few weeks, the US ambassador in Paris, Charles Kushner, sent a letter to the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to reproach him that he was not doing enough to curb antisemitic acts in the country. "Not a day goes by in the country without Jews being attacked in the streets, synagogues and schools being desecrated, and Jewish-owned businesses being vandalized," Kushner stated in the rather undiplomatic letter, sent at the end of August last year. Macron had announced just a few days earlier that France would recognize Palestine.

Social media has been flooded with memes, with remix musicals and parody videos. They've even made T-shirts. The French president's speech in English, Emmanuel Macron at the World Economic Forum in Davos It caused a sensation, but not because of his criticism of Donald Trump or his defense of Europe's strategic autonomy, but because of his repeated use of the expression "for sure" (in Catalan, definitely), pronounced in an exaggerated, emphatic way. "With an accent, it must be said, that is somewhat ridiculous," the newspaper maintains. Le Monde.

The new president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced yesterday the return of his country to "diplomacy", a new step to undo the legacy of Trumpism in the international arena, which was marked by a mixture of nationalist isolationism and unilateralism. In fact, Biden himself already anticipated Washington's return to multilateralism by signing the return to the Paris Agreement against the climate crisis and to bodies such as the World Health Organization. Now, however, comes the moment of truth, and it is when the new administration has to redefine its position, for example in the Middle East and in the relations it wants to establish with the European Union (with whom Trump has maintained a distant and problematic relationship), Russia and China.