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From our Affiliates
The Ceasefire Pause: Likely Outcomes of the Islamabad Negotiations
May 13, 2026Mahsa Safi
Sometimes, wars persist not because of military strength or the will of the parties involved, but because the very notion of an “end” remains undefined. Now, a…
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Global Energy is Caught in a Dark Tunnel and Future Prospects Are Bleak
Mar 30, 2026The Economic Studies Unit
The world waits apprehensively to see where the heated conflict between Israel and the United States on one side, and Iran on the other, will lead. It is a con…
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Trump’s Negotiations with Iran: Exit Strategy or Bluff?
Mar 26, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
On 23 March 2026, US President Donald Trump abruptly walked back a threat he had made just two days earlier, when he warned that the United States would “hit a…
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Did All That Was Solid Melt into Air? The Islamic Republic at an Impasse
Mar 26, 2026 Rouzbeh Parsi
The Islamic Republic is an oligarchy, not a personal dictatorship, and this is both its survival mechanism and its downfall. The system consists of what might …
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Raising the Cost of War: Iran’s Response to the US–Israeli War
Mar 12, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
Nearly a week into the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which resulted in the assassination of several senior political and military leaders early on, the Assembly …
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Israel’s War on Iran and Netanyahu’s Role
Mar 10, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
For the second time in less than a year, Israel, in alliance with the United States, has launched a large-scale attack against Iran, using the latter’s nuclear…
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The Gulf in the Line of Fire: The Calculations and Contradictions of Iranian Strategy
Mar 9, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
No sooner had news broke of a US-Israeli attack on Tehran on the morning of 28 February 2026, than Iran had launched a series of its own strikes targeting the …
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Epic Fury: Washington’s Contradictory War Aims in Iran
Mar 8, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
On 28 February 2026, US President Donald Trump announced the launch of a joint US-Israeli military operation, dubbed “Epic Fury”, against Iran. Within 24 hours…
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Trump and Netanyahu’s Iran Gambit: The Strategic Calculations behind Epic Fury
Mar 6, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
Following weeks of military mobilization and statements hinting at escalation from the White House, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale attack …
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The War on Iran
Mar 3, 2026Mehran Kamrava
After months of tension and speculation, Israel and the United States jointly attacked Iran. The attacks started with a bombardment of the compound of the Isla…
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Iran Protests Stir International Convergences and Conflicting Interests
Jan 20, 2026The Unit for Political Studies
Since December, Iran has witnessed its largest wave of anti-government demonstrations since the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom movement sparked by the death of stud…
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Coming to Terms with Economic Sanctions on Iran
Jul 13, 2025Meriem Heni
For more than four decades, Iran has been subject to wide-ranging international sanctions, first by the United States in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution and…
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From Imperial Containment to Catastrophe: Why the US-Israeli Strategy Against Iran Collapsed
Jul 6, 2025Bamo Nouri Inderjeet Parmar
The military escalation of June 2025 – marked by Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and the first-ever direct US military aggress…
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A War With No Winners
Jun 23, 2025Mehran Kamrava
acrobat Icon The United States has finally caved in to Israeli pressure and has bombed Iran’s most important nuclear facilities, located in Isfahan, Natanz, …
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Israel’s Attack on Iran (2): Balance of Power and Tehran’s Options
Jun 18, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
As Israel guards its monopoly over nuclear arms in the Middle East, its political and security cabinet decided on 9 June to launch a war on Iran, in coordinati…
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Israel’s War with Iran Moves out of the Shadows
Jun 17, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
At dawn on Friday, 13 June Israel launched a full-scale, coordinated military operation against Iran, codenamed “Rising Lion.” More than 200 warplanes, includi…
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US-Iran Nuclear Talks: Background, Obstacles, and Prospects
May 8, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
The United States and Iran have now sat three rounds of Omani-mediated negotiations, through which Washington seeks to restrict Iran’s nuclear program, while T…
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Saudi-Iranian Reconciliation: Limits and Opportunities
Jul 16, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The most important factor driving Iran’s pursuit of reconciliation with the kingdom was the Islamic Republic’s difficult economic situation, made worse by Amer…
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What Provoked Israel’s Limited Response to Iran’s Attack?
Apr 29, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
At dawn on 14 April, 2024, Iran launched its first ever direct attack from its own territory against Israel, involving some 120 ballistic missiles, 36 cruise m…
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China Brokered Iran Saudi Agreement: Motives and Prospects
Mar 16, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Following secret five-day negotiations in Beijing between the two countries’ national security advisors, Saudi Arabia and Iran have reached an agreement to res…

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