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The Political Power Battle in Tehran

Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Strategic Adversariesballistic missile, Basij, civilian leadership, Deterrence, Diplomacy, economic recovery, Government, Gulf Cooperation Council, hardliners, Hormuz Strait, internal power struggle, Iran, IRGC, military, nuclear program, President Masoud Pezeshkian, regime survival, regional hegemony, regional integration, regional security, sanctions, security doctrine, strategic depth, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Supreme National Security Council, US-Iran relations

The Political Power Battle in Tehran

Mohamed ELDoh0 Comments

Published: October 1, 2026 As Iran signals its willingness to pursue fighting, one of the most important power struggles to watch in the Middle East today is not between Iran…

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The Pitfalls of Offensive Counterproliferation

Archive, Arms Control & NonproliferationAl-Kibar, Arms Control, assassination, Ayatollah Khamenei, ceasefire, counterproliferation, cyber-attacks, emerging disruptive technology., Gulf War, hardliners, Here is a comma-separated list of keywords from the paper:nuclear non-proliferation, IAEA, inspections, international scrutiny, Iran, Iraq, Israel, kinetic attacks, Libya, military intervention, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, NPT, NSG, nuclear ambitions, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear fuel, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear program, nuclear reactor, Nuclear Weapons, offensive counterproliferation, Osirak, proliferation, realist, regime change, religious verdict, sanctions, South Africa, state sovereignty, strategic stability, Stuxnet, Syria, technology transfer, Ukraine, United States

The Pitfalls of Offensive Counterproliferation

Ali Abbas0 Comments

Published: April 30, 2026 The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was intended to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, and it has achieved remarkable success. Since the treaty was entered into…

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