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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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Trump’s Gulf Tour: A Pragmatic America First Approach
May 21, 2025
US President Donald Trump conducted his first major international tour since taking office, stopping at Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates from …
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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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Israel’s Campaign against Qatar over Its Support for Gaza and a Ceasefire
Feb 24, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
As Qatar positions itself as the main mediator in the negotiations towards a full prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas, and pushes for an end to Israel’s…
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GCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications
Oct 9, 2024The Unit for Political Studies
The positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…
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A Fragile but Enduring Truce in Yemen
Aug 27, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On April 1, 2022, the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced a two-month truce between the country’s warring parties. This truce was extended twi…
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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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Determinants of Saudi Arabia’s Response to the Gaza War
May 22, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Following Hamas’s “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, Saudi Arabia publicly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and blamed it for escalating tensions, desp…
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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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Negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis to End the War in Yemen
Apr 30, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The Houthis have been conducting negotiations with a Saudi delegation headed by the Saudi ambassador to the internationally recognized Yemeni government, Moham…
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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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Where Dance Fights with the Devil
Dec 5, 2022Mohammad Hossein Badamchi
Iran is currently experiencing one of the largest anti-government protests since 2009. The protests were ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old wom…
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US-Saudi Relations in Turmoil after the OPEC+ Decision to Reduce Oil Production
Nov 2, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production by 2 million barrels daily, starting from November 2022, ignited tensions between long-standing allies, the US and …
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“Women, Life, Freedom”: Protesting the Islamic Republic
Oct 4, 2022Mehran Kamrava
The killing in Iran of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, at the hands of the so-called Morality Police (Gasht-e Ershad), has engulfed the country in nationwide…
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An Assassination Attempt Revives an Old Discussion
Sep 13, 2022Azmi Bishara
The assassination attempt on novelist Salman Rushdie as he lectured at the Chautauqua Institution on Friday, August 12, 2022 in Chautauqua, New York, has reson…
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The India-Israel-US-UAE Alliance (I2-U2): Background and Objectives
Jul 19, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
US President Joe Biden held a virtual meeting with the leaders of a new economic group known as I2-U2, which includes India, Israel and the UAE, as well as the…
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Iran’s Ties with China: Synergising Geoconomic Strategies
Jul 7, 2022Deepika Saraswat
Iran has approached China’s rise and the ongoing systemic shift in the global political economy from Euro-Atlantic towards Asia with optimism. While it celebra…
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The Vienna Negotiations and the Elusive Return of the Iranian Nuclear Deal
May 1, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Despite the passage of more than a year since the launch of the Vienna negotiations to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly kno…

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