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    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Failed Iranian Performance and Its Repercussions

    Apr 15, 2024Imad K. Harb

    Rare are the occasions when a purportedly capable country’s determined military response to attack turns out to be a mere theatrical performance. Such was the …

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    Iran’s Presidential Election as Viewed in Iraq

    Jun 29, 2021

    All political developments in Iran have serious repercussions in Iraq, and the election of Ibrahim Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic is no different. …

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    Arab Public Opinion on National Security and Foreign Intervention

    Nov 17, 2020

    The Arab League celebrated its 75th anniversary this year in the midst of regional politics that have never been more polarized, with continuous foreign interv…

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    The Coming American Defeat in Iraq

    Jan 6, 2020

    The vote by Iraq’s Parliament to force the withdrawal of American troops from the country marks the beginning of the end of the 2003 US intervention.

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    A Middle East Calamity Is about to Unfold

    Jan 3, 2020

    Killing Soleimani has put the Middle East at the edge of a dangerous abyss and hastened an inevitable confrontation between the United States and Iran.

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    Iraq Enters the Israel-Iran Proxy War

    Aug 20, 2019

    Israeli strikes against the Popular Mobilization Units in Iraq may have created another battleground in the proxy war between Israel and the Islamic Republic o…

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    American Sanctions on Iran Will Seriously Impact Iraq

    Nov 13, 2018

    While the new set of American sanctions on Iran will undoubtedly have a negative impact on its interactions with the world, the fear is that Iraq will be an un…

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    A Crack in the Russian-Iranian Alliance in Syria?

    May 23, 2018

    In a rare instance since the Russian intervention in Syria in September 2015, the policy differences between Moscow and Tehran have become public. This raised …