Browsing: Atlantic Council experts

Regime survives but faces long-term crisis. US can strike fast but cannot sustain. Gulf diversifies. Markets follow the strait.

Twenty questions: US military wins, regime change uncertain. Israel seeks collapse, US may tire.

Kurdish offensive risks rallying Persian nationalism, fragmenting opposition, and triggering regional blowback without lasting US commitment.

The U.S.-Iran war is spreading: missiles hit Gulf states, Hezbollah hesitates, Iraq teeters, and diplomacy is dead.

Sudani’s bloc won most seats, but Shia rivals and U.S.-Iran tensions complicate his path to a second term.