Iran
How a Coordinated International Campaign Is Targeting the United Arab Emirates
Even the Israeli Government Is Largely Silent, Avoiding Direct Threats Against Tehran and Refraining from Contradicting the U.S.
Ali Al-Zaidi’s Remarks Suggest That He Will Subordinate Iraqi Sovereignty to Iranian Interests
Restarting Production Requires More than Reopening Valves, Likely Taking Weeks Rather than Days
Washington Is Again Being Sold an Illusion—That Iraq’s Future Can Be Entrusted to a Single ‘Indispensable’ Insider
Real Authority in the Islamic Republic Lies with the Supreme Leader and Is Enforced Through Unelected Institutions
Regional Governments Are Pushing Back by Designating the Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah, and Hamas as Terrorist Organizations
Despite Ceasefires Across Three Fronts, All Sides Are Preparing for Renewed Combat
Tehran Claims to Have Issued an Ultimatum and Suggests Washington Has Effectively Accepted Its Conditions for Negotiations
Did Washington Just Hand Iraq to Qais al-Khazali?
Bitter About Being Caught off Guard by the U.S. Attack on Iran and the End of Its Mediator Role, Oman Now Chooses Iran’s Side
The Most Significant Implication May Be What It Reveals About the Broader Collapse of the Gulf Hedging Architecture
Iranian Authorities Continue to Project Defiance but the Economy Appears to Have Limited Remaining Resilience
The Strait’s Closure Disrupts the Flow of More than 20 Percent of the World’s Oil and Gas Supplies
The Use of Media Criticism and Symbolic Acts like Graffiti Suggests That Internal Discipline Is Loosening at the Margins
The Country Stands as an Unapologetic and Reliable Ally of the Jewish State on Both Moral and Strategic Grounds
To Preserve the Alliance, Policymakers Must Demonstrate Its Importance and Counter Wildly False Accusations About Israel
A Network of Citizens, Residents, and Cultivated Operatives Were Passing Targeting Intelligence to Tehran While Attacks on Bahrain Were Ongoing
The Choice Facing the U.S. Is to Intensify and Escalate the Pressure, or to Accept a Face-Saving Deal Likely to Leave the Regime’s Regional Project Intact
The U.S. May Be Signaling Dominance but Trying to Remain Flexible by Not Shutting Down Iran’s Oil Trade Entirely