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What It Takes to Neutralize the Houthi Threat

Archive, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesArab states, Arab unity, ballistic missile capabilities, Bandar Abbas, civilian infrastructure, cyber disruptions, drone attacks, Egypt, financial isolation, geopolitical leverage, global shipping disruption, Horn of Africa, Houthi threat, intelligence cooperation, Iran-backed Houthis, Iranian support, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israel airstrikes, maritime security, naval dominance, precision airstrikes, red sea, Red Sea Defense Compact, regional security, regional stability, Saudi Arabia, Saudi-UAE reconciliation, Socotra, special operations, Suez Canal, UAE, US bombing, US-Egypt defense cooperation, weapons smuggling, Yemen

What It Takes to Neutralize the Houthi Threat

Mohamed ELDoh3 Comments

The Red Sea has re-emerged as a vital fault line in the struggle for regional power, maritime security, and geopolitical leverage. At the center of this growing turbulence stand the Iran-backed Houthis…

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Iran Can Reconfigure Its Foothold in Post-Assad Syria

Archive, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAlawite, Bashar al Assad, civil war, Damascus, Druze, governance, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Hizballah, ideological footprint, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israel, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kurds, Middle East, military proxies, Modafean-e Haram, Quds, regional actors, resistance axis., Russia, Sayyida Zaynab, self-determination, Sunni Islamist regime, Syria, transitional constitution, Turkey, unrest

Iran Can Reconfigure Its Foothold in Post-Assad Syria

Loqman Radpey0 Comments

Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Iran initially denied the presence of its forces on Syrian soil, despite evidence to the contrary. Later, Tehran was forced…

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Nuclear Diplomacy or Regime Survival? Rethinking the Iran Deal

Archive, Strategic AdversariesAli Khamenei, Arabs, authoritarian regime, Baloch, cultural suppression, democratic aspirations, Diplomacy, dissent, Donald Trump, economic marginalization, economic relief, ethnic minorities, forced assimilation, Hezbollah, houthis, Human Rights, Iran regime, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, JCPOA, Kurds, marginalized groups, militias, nuclear deal, oppression, Persian-Shia hegemony, regional stability, repression, sanctions relief, uranium enrichment, US-Iran

Nuclear Diplomacy or Regime Survival? Rethinking the Iran Deal

Loqman Radpey2 Comments

In response to President Donald Trump’s letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, proposing a new nuclear deal, Khamenei’s stance was unequivocal: rejection, dismissing it as “deception of public opinion.”…

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