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Public Religious Expression, Immigration, and Identity Debates Are Colliding in the U.K.’s Capital
Iran’s Long Memory of Foreign Concessions Explains Why Transactional Regime Change Would Fail
Brussels’ New Industrial and Emissions Rules Expose How Deeply Turkey’s Automotive Sector Depends on EU Market Access
Damascus Signals Cultural Recognition While Using Legal Ambiguity to Pressure the Syrian Democratic Forces Into Centralized Rule
Benghazi’s Outreach to Athens Seeks to Shield Libya’s Frozen Assets From Russian and Turkish Predation
Decades of Security Preparation, Economic Capture, and Elite Cohesion Complicate Any Path to Change
Preventing Symbolic Triumphs on the Temple Mount Is Central to Deterrence and Postwar Stability
Water Scarcity and Security Cooperation Are Being Weaponized by Rival Elites and Foreign Powers
Contacts Between Displaced Alawite Fighters and the Syrian Democratic Forces Reflect Survival, Not Strategic Coordination
Today’s Protests Lack the Elite Defections and Institutional Collapse That Toppled the Shah
Widespread Unrest Has Revealed the Islamic Republic’s Inability to Address Economic Collapse or Public Anger
Targeted Support for Protesters Could Shift the Balance Without a Full-Scale War
Iran’s Capacity to Respond to Such an Action Is Far More Limited than Its Leaders Suggest
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Iran’s Collapsing Legitimacy and Escalating Violence Are Forcing the United States to Move beyond Containment and toward Decisive Action
Economic Freefall and Cross-Class Protest Are Exposing the Regime’s Structural Weakness
Unable to Trust Its Own Forces, Tehran Outsources Repression to Foreign Proxies
Gaza Cannot Be Stabilized Without Ending Hamas
Riyadh Repositions for Regional Primacy in a Post-Liberal Middle East
Appeasement of Extremism Has Put Australia’s Jews at Risk
The Price of Freeing Oneself from the Dictatorship of Islamic Slippers Will Be Far Higher than the Fall of a Gray Communist Mini-State Beyond the Rhine
Individuals Placed on the Blacklist Are Effectively Barred from Obtaining Powers of Attorney or Completing Notarial Transactions at Turkish Consulates Abroad
Should Trump Take Kharg, Rather than Destroy It, He Can Ensure the Regime Can Never Again Pay the Salaries of Its Bureaucrats and Soldiers
