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Is Regime Change on the Table for Iran?
Trump says ‘Let’s just finish the job’
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
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Iran Faces Final Choice: Take the Deal or Pay the Price | Jim Hanson on Fox News
March 24, 2026
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For thirteen centuries, the jizya stood as a religiously mandated instrument of subjugation—rooted in explicit Qur’anic command and elaborated across classical jurisprudence—not a reciprocal protection fee. Its graduated payments, humiliating collection rituals, and surrounding architecture of legal disabilities extracted wealth while enforcing abasement, driving the demographic collapse of once-thriving Christian and Jewish communities across the Levant, North Africa, and beyond. The jizya's enduring legacy of humiliation and contempt requires honest reckoning today: formal acknowledgment, restitution where possible, and reparative justice for the descendant communities who paid for the right to remain what they already were.
Dhimmitude Project
Confronting the Legacy of Jizya as an Instrument of Subjugation
Modern Muslim States Must Abandon the Mythology Surrounding the Jizya and Confront its Damage to Religious Minorities
July 15, 2026
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Jalal Tagreeb
From Houston to Mexico City and beyond, groups like ICNA (WhyIslam), MUNA, and IERA have mobilized volunteers, billboards, Qur’an distributions, and street outreach to recruit converts during the tournament. Organizers openly boast of shahadas secured on day one and hundreds more expected—while analysts document the networks’ deep roots in Jamaat-e-Islami, Muslim Brotherhood ideology, and calls for establishing sharia. What is presented as peaceful “sharing” is, ex-Muslims and scholars warn, a strategic long march toward Islamization of the West.
FWI News
Islamist Groups Turn FIFA World Cup into Field for Muslim Proselytization
Experts Warn of ‘Dawa’ as Gateway to Imposing Sharia in West
July 15, 2026
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Jules Gomes
Over the course of the years since the Hamas October 7 attacks, which actively sought to derail normalization, Saudi Arabia has arrived at a strategic assessment of the regional order that treats both Iran and Israel as equally revisionist actors whose conflict dynamics destabilize the Gulf at the expense of states that sought no part in their conflict. Photo: President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meet at the White House on November 18, 2025.
Middle East Forum Online
Saudi Arabia’s Challenge to the Abraham Accords
The Assumption by the U.S. and Israel That Saudi Accession to the Abraham Accords Remained a Matter of Timing and Terms Has Been Significantly Undermined by Events
July 15, 2026
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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour