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The Strange Rise of Nick Fuentes on Arabic Social Media
Short clips of an American far-right figure are going viral in the Arab world, recast as Western dissent on Israel and revealing an uneasy convergence…
12 hrs ago
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Ahmed Alrayyis
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The CIA Didn’t Create the Islamic Republic
What Bernie Sanders, Glenn Greenwald, and Tucker Carlson get wrong about regime change and its consequences.
Jan 14
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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Iran’s Berlin Wall Moment and the Dangerous Silence About the Day After
Iran’s uprising has reached an irreversible moment—but no serious plan exists for the day after regime collapse. Without preparation, a revolution could…
Jan 13
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Ammar Abdulhamid
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The Palestinian Question in a Post-Islamic Republic Middle East
Iran’s unraveling threatens to strip Palestinian militancy of its most powerful patron—forcing a reckoning between armed “resistance” and political…
Jan 12
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Hamza Howidy
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Oil, Power, and the Collapse of the Caracas-Tehran Alliance
As Venezuela recalibrates its strategic direction following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, Iran risks losing one of its most important footholds outside…
Jan 11
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Juan Miguel Matheus
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The Iranian Regime Will Fall
The Islamic Republic may endure protests for now, but treating it as a permanent fixture of the regional order ignores mounting evidence of irreversible…
Jan 10
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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All Eyes On Iran
Two recent analyses from me on the bravery of protesting Iranians, PLUS a question: does this wave of demonstrations feel different to you?
Published on Off The Record With Iram
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Jan 9
The Storyteller Mapping Lebanon’s Trajectory
Political commentator and writer Ronnie Chatah on his home country caught between Hezbollah, Iran, and a weakened state—and why understanding it…
Jan 9
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Reid Newton
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How a Fake Saudi Prince Became a Kingmaker in Lebanon
A political elite accustomed to bypassing the state found itself doing the bidding of a prince who never existed—an episode that stands as both an…
Jan 8
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Issam Fawaz
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What You Don’t Know About Iran’s Theocracy
Mehran Kamrava’s work empowers us to analyze the Islamic Republic not as just a crude dictatorship, but as a doctrinal system that turned political…
Jan 7
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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Iran’s Protests Confront a State Built to Survive Them
Public outrage has outpaced the regime ideologically, but not institutionally. The Islamic Republic endures because its security architecture is…
Jan 6
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Iram Ramzan
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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The Vanishing Christians No One Wants to Talk About
Across the Middle East, ancient Christian communities are shrinking—and fast. From Syria to Iraq and Gaza, Christianity is retreating from the lands…
Jan 2
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Iram Ramzan
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