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Middle East Forum Online
Is the Iranian Regime Fracturing?
There are Signs of Internal Dissent
July 14, 2026
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Jim Hanson
MEF Chief Strategist Jim Hanson on FOX News
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Is Regime Change on the Table for Iran?
July 9, 2026
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Jim Hanson
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The Deal is Signed — Now What?
June 18, 2026
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Jim Hanson
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‘The Era of Peace Processes Is Over. Now Israel Must Win’
June 14, 2026
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Are We at the Iran End Game?
May 28, 2026
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Jim Hanson
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Iran Isn’t Boycotting Talks — It Has Nothing Left | Gregg Roman on Washington Watch
April 23, 2026
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Inside Iran’s Fragmented Regime and Strategic Weaknesses | Michael Rubin on Fox News
April 23, 2026
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The Pressure Is Working on Iran | Jim Hanson on Fox News
April 22, 2026
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Is Sharia Law Already in Texas? | Sam Westrop on Let’s Talk Local
April 15, 2026
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Iran War Fallout and What Comes Next | Gregg Roman on The Middle East Breakdown
April 14, 2026
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Forcing Tehran to Surrender Its Nuclear Program | Jim Hanson on Piers Morgan Uncensored
April 14, 2026
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Crush Iran’s Leverage—Seize the Oil, Force Collapse | Jim Hanson on Fox News
April 9, 2026
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They Said It Would Fail. It Didn’t. | Jim Hanson on Fox News
April 8, 2026
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Can the U.S. Extract Uranium From Iran? | Jim Hanson on Fox News
April 1, 2026
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Iran Is Trying to Turn Hormuz into a Toll Booth | Jim Hanson on Fox News
March 30, 2026
More from MEF
The Turkish government tried to have Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab killed inside a U.S. federal detention facility after learning that he was cooperating with prosecutors in a sweeping Iran sanctions-evasion investigation implicating senior Turkish officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to a sentencing memorandum filed in federal court in New York.
Middle East Forum Online
Turkey Tried to Have Key U.S. Witness in an Iran Sanctions-Busting Case Killed in a New York Jail
Reza Zarrab’s Lawyers Devote a Section of Their Filing in a U.S. District Court to ‘Simultaneous Retaliation and Attempted Murder by Turkey’
September 17, 2026
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Abdullah Bozkurt
Press Releases
Middle East Forum Opens Israel Election 2026 Poll of Polls
The Site Compiles the 308 Polls Released in 2026, Links Each Row to the Publisher’s Report, and Averages the Newest Poll from Each Polling House
September 17, 2026
Was Israel really so much worse than every other nation on earth? Worse than China? Eritrea? North Korea? Belarus? South Sudan? Cuba? Turkmenistan? Iran? Why did this tiny country loom so large in the global imagination?
Middle East Forum Online
9/11 Was My Gateway Drug Into Conservatism
The Reaction Around Me in This Supposedly Enlightened, Self-Assured Bay Area Enclave, Seemed More Sympathetic to the Perpetrators than the Victims
September 17, 2026
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Karys Rhea