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Iran’s Resistance Strategy: Navigating the Collapse of Assad and Regional Shifts
Striking a Balance: Engaging Tehran Without Undermining US Credibility
China, Iran, and Russia in Post-Election Day Information Operations
Potential Consequences of a Military Conflict Between Iran and Israel
The Ongoing Impact of Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom Movement
The Wait-and-See Effect: Pezeshkian’s Presidency and Iranians’ Growing Discontent
Iranian Election as a game of Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders: The Evolution of Iran’s Presidential Office and Its Impact on the Iranian People’s Future
Issue Watch of the Week: 19 JUN – 25 JUN 2024
Issue Watch of the Week – 12 JUN – 18 JUN 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 5 JUN – 11 JUN 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 29 MAY – 4 JUN 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 22-28 MAY 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 15-21 MAY 2024
Impact of Leadership Transition Following the Deaths of the Iranian President and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Issue Watch of the Week: 08-14 MAY 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 01-07 MAY 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 24 APR – 30 APR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 17 APR – 23 APR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 10 APR – 16 APR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 3 APR – 9 APR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 27 MAR – 2 APR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 20 MAR – 26 MAR 2024
Iran: John Sotos
Issue Watch of the Week: 13 MAR – 19 MAR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 06 MAR – 12 MAR 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 27 Feb – 05 Mar 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 21 Feb – 27 Feb 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 14 February – 20 February 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 07-13 Feb 2024
Issue Watch of the Week: 31 Jan – 07 Feb 2024
Iranian Politics Approach the Event Horizon
Up in Smoke
We Bombed the Houthis—Now Who You Gonna Call?
The Siren Call of “Deterrence”
The Islamic Republic: Between Pragmatism and Ideology
Waiting for the Old Man to Depart
Iran on its Hind Legs
Déjà vu All Over Again
Anatomy Lesson
Rhetoric and Reality
Is the Islamic Republic Becoming a “Red Giant?”
Mullahs More Measured Than Mad
While we were looking the other way…
How Enduring are Tehran’s Achievements in the Gaza War?
The Islamic Republic’s Enduring Hollowness
Now Thrive the Armourers
Testing Time for Regional Detente
Best of Times, Worst of Times
A Year After: Hardliners’ Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Vanity of vanities
The Opportunity that Wasn’t
Once More with Feeling
A Brave New World?
Can We Talk?
Hard Lessons About Hard Power
Might this be “Peak Islamic Republic?”
The Moving Buck Stops, and Having Stopped, Moves On
A Tale of Two Tantrums
The Long Goodbye
The Hedgehog’s Failure
Khamenei Dances with the One that Brung Him
The Glass is not Nearly as Empty as it Looks
Acting Locally—but Thinking Nationally?
The Other Fire Beneath the Ashes
Water Fights
The Real Poverty of the Nezam
Iran’s Feet of Clay

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