Middle East & Africa
Competing Intentions in Iran’s Political Future and the Appeal of External Involvement
The recent escalation into open military confrontation between Iran and external actors has transformed what had long been a theoretical debate into an immediate...
A Coup for Security? Testing the Military’s Claims in Niger
On 26 July 2023, a face largely unknown to the public appeared on Niger's national television. Abdourahamane Tchiani, commander of the presidential guard, stood...
It’s all about re-balancing of Power: Regime Change is an Excuse
After Operation ‘Midnight Hammer,’ which claimed to have destroyed the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran, the US president, Donald Trump, pointing at a replica...
Pluralism: Iran’s Ideological Grievance with the UAE
As Iranian ballistic missiles and drones continue to arc across the skies of the Middle East, analysts have rushed to explain Tehran's targeting logic...
Neutrality in Crisis: Recalibrating the GCC’s Hedging Strategy
The escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, alongside US involvement, has caused major disruptions across the whole Middle Eastern region. The end goal of...
Impunity for the IRGC, Bombs for Tehran
Why Iran?
It’s nukes! It’s oil! No, it’s Iran! The Trump administration’s purported justifications for war against Iran have been varying and unsubstantiated. President Trump...
U.S.-Israel War on Iran at the Crossroads
The United States is back, enforcing military power jointly with Israel. In front of the global audience, word combinations and special phrases were raised...
Why Yemen’s Houthis Are Staying Out of the Iran War?
As the war between the United States, Israel and Iran spreads across the region, several Iranian allied groups have become involved. Fighters linked to...
Sudan: Another tradeable chip in the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement
The US-Israeli air war against Iran has thrown into relief a curious symmetry of interests between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the future of...
Trump boasts of killing Iran leaders as war widens
U.S. President Donald Trump boasted about the killing of Iranian leaders and intensified rhetoric against Tehran as the U.S.–Israel war against Iran approached its...