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A Nuclear Iran Would Pose an Existential Threat to the South Caucasus

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Bonus Reads, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesArmenia, Ayatollah Khamenei, Azerbaijan, ballistic missiles, destabilization, drone production, enrichment capabilities, existential threat, geopolitical role, hegemonic approach, Huseyniyyun Brigade, imperialist activities. , Iran foreign policy, Iran-Russia pact, IRGC, Israel, John Mearsheimer, Kenneth Waltz, NATO, nuclear agreement, nuclear balance, Nuclear Iran, offensive realism, Operation Rising Lion, relative power, Robert Gilpin, Russia-Ukraine war, security risks, South Caucasus, territorial control, Turkey, US nuclear deal, Zangezur corridor

A Nuclear Iran Would Pose an Existential Threat to the South Caucasus

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Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has defined the strategic goal of his country’s Operation Rising Lion as rolling back the Iranian threat to Israel’s survival. Israel is pounding Iran’s nuclear facilities,…

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US–Iran Talks: Unlikely to Succeed Absent a Military Strike

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesauthoritarian regime, Axis of Resistance, ballistic missiles, diplomatic pressure, domestic repression, economic hardship, hamas, Hezbollah, houthis, international agreements, Iran proxies, Middle East, military strike, nuclear program, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, regional destabilization. , regional influence, sanctions, Shiite Crescent, Shiite ideology, Taqiyya, US-Iran talks

US–Iran Talks: Unlikely to Succeed Absent a Military Strike

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Indirect US-Iran talks are ongoing, with the first round held in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on April 12. Based on what was announced, the primary focus for the United…

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Iran’s Threat to Azerbaijan’s Critical Energy Infrastructure

Archive, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAbraham Accords, Azerbaijan, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, ballistic missiles, Caspian Sea, critical infrastructure, cyber capabilities, energy infrastructure, Freedom Support Act, hamas, Iran, Israel, Karabakh, Leviathan gas field, Middle East, military drills, Muddy Water, oil refineries, Rufat Ahmadzada , Section 907, SOCAR, South Caucasus, Turkey, US policy

Iran’s Threat to Azerbaijan’s Critical Energy Infrastructure

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Iranian leaders increased their belligerent rhetoric following the October 1 attack in which the Islamic Republic fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles on Israel. Codenamed “True Promise,” the attack was the…

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You Think the Ukraine War Was Bad? Imagine a Rogue Russia

Strategic AdversariesAmit Gupta, ballistic missiles, Brussels, cease-fire plan, China, drones, economic disaster, equitable outcome, global insecurity, Iran, military connections, Missile Technology Control Regime, MTCR, National Institute for Deterrence Studies. , North Korea, NPT, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear technology, regional security, Russia, S-400 anti-missile system, scientific labor, strategic weaponry, Su-35 fighter, Ukraine war, Washington, Western intervention, Western sanctions

You Think the Ukraine War Was Bad? Imagine a Rogue Russia

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President Lyndon Baines Johnson once famously said he gave J. Edgar Hoover the directorship of the FBI for life because “[i]t was better to have him in the tent pissing…

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