Iran’s Final Gambit - WhoWhatWhy

Iran’s Final Gambit - WhoWhatWhy

What happens when a regime built on three pillars of legitimacy loses two of them entirely — and faces the destruction of the third? For the Islamic Republic of Iran, that moment may have arrived. This week on the WhoWhatWhy podcast, we’re joined by Shay Khatiri, a senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute and a scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Khatiri writes the substack The Russia-Iran Files.  Khatiri didn’t stu…

Everything You Need To Know About War With Iran (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report

Alastair Crooke and Hedges note that this conflict is far from over and the future of the Middle East and the global economy hinges on what comes next from Israel, Iran or the United States.

The Iranian Regime Under Pressure: What’s Next?

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In the eye of the storm

The Middle East is once again confronted with a geopolitical test. While the world watches the dangerous power struggle between Iran and Israel, a country that lies geographically, historically and politically between the fronts must ask itself a question that it has not asked itself for too long: Whose interests are at the heart of our foreign policy — our own or those of others? For years, Iran’s strategy has been to turn fragile states like I…

China’s Iranian crude imports near record high again

China imported over 1.7 mbd of Iranian crude in June—just shy of the March record. But what’s different this time?