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    Monday, September 28, 2026
    MEROMERO
    • Geopolitics

      The Fall of Bab al-Mandab Puts Saudi Oil at Risk

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Iraqi Development Road Risks Becoming a Contract Arena

      September 26, 2026 ARFA

      Vision 2030 Trades Grand Ambition for Must-Do Projects

      September 26, 2026 ARFA

      Three Ruptures Are Ending Pax Americana in the Middle East

      September 25, 2026 ARFA

      Lebanon Partition Would Deny Turkey the State It Needs

      September 24, 2026 ARFA
    • Security

      China Djibouti Base Upgrades Turn Trade Into Surveillance

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Why the US Defense Industrial Base Fails in Drone Warfare

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Iranian Supersonic Missiles Carry Russian Fingerprints

      September 27, 2026 ARFA

      US Precision Strikes in Iran Make War Crime Deniable

      September 27, 2026 ARFA

      Pakistan Security Guarantees Cover the Wrong Threats

      September 27, 2026 ARFA
    • Analysis

      US-Oman Relations: Bombed in Rhetoric, Needed in Practice

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Saudi Dependency: Riyadh Distrusts the US but Cannot Leave

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Data Center Backlash May Hand Gulf States Leverage Over US

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Operation Epic Fury Wins the Battle, Loses the Peace

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Houthi-Iran Alliance: Why the Hezbollah Analogy Falls Short

      September 27, 2026 ARFA
    • Policy Brief

      Trump-Xi Talks: A Floor for Ties, Not a Fix for Rivalry

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Israel Aid Shift Is Mainstream, Not a Left Takeover

      September 27, 2026 ARFA

      Trump UN Speech Puts the Burden of Choice on Tehran

      September 24, 2026 ARFA

      Iran Transnational Repression Turns Data into Hit Lists

      September 19, 2026 ARFA

      Israel’s next government must prioritize the Abraham Accords

      September 9, 2026 ARFA
    • MENA

      Morocco normalization with Israel reshapes North Africa

      September 19, 2026 ARFA

      Sudan partition emerges without a formal declaration

      September 16, 2026 ARFA

      Nile Dam Crisis Deepens as Ethiopia Plans Three New Dams

      September 8, 2026 ARFA

      US Libya Plan Risks Triggering Political Chaos

      August 24, 2026 ARFA

      Egypt Energy Crisis Forces Green Shift Amid War

      August 24, 2026 ARFA
    • Governance

      Iran Police Cadets Are Built on a Regime’s Distrust

      September 25, 2026 ARFA

      Israel election: the war policy outlives Netanyahu

      September 21, 2026 ARFA

      Iran power struggle erupts over Tehran protests

      September 19, 2026 ARFA

      Talabani exile looms as US cuts peshmerga subsidies

      September 17, 2026 ARFA

      Peshmerga Unification: A Mirage Washington Must See Through

      September 15, 2026 ARFA
    • Economy

      Kurdish Insurgency Could Cut Off Iran’s Land Lifeline

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Turkey-Iran Flights Halt as Ankara Scrambles From Treasury

      September 25, 2026 ARFA

      UAE Space Economy: Iran Hits Earth, Emirates Reach Orbit

      September 23, 2026 ARFA

      Bank Mellat Closure: Erdogan Talks Tough, Turkey Acts Quiet

      September 23, 2026 ARFA

      Syria Economic Crisis: Austerity Backfires on Sharaa

      September 23, 2026 ARFA
    • Energy

      Hormuz Bypass Plans Rest on Fragmented Middle East States

      September 28, 2026 ARFA

      Hormuz Shuttle Tankers Sail On After Deadly Iranian Hit

      September 24, 2026 ARFA

      China energy security weathers Hormuz but creates risk

      September 21, 2026 ARFA

      Fuel vulnerability is not about who produces oil

      September 21, 2026 ARFA

      Gulf bypass routes turn redundancy into rationing

      September 20, 2026 ARFA
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    Governance

    All the Pieces Are Lining up for Regime Change in Iran

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Operation Epic Fury and internal uprisings have shattered the IRGC’s pillars, signaling that structural regime change in Iran is already an operational reality.

    Analysis

    ‘Regime change’ might be biggest failure in Operation Epic Fury

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Assassinations of senior Iranian officials have failed to trigger collapse, instead installing a radicalized, combat-hardened leadership committed to asymmetric defiance.

    Analysis

    The inevitable decline and fall of Zionism

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    The erosion of Israel’s moral mythos and its designation as a pariah state indicate the inevitable systemic decline of Zionism’s global influence.

    Analysis

    Can a drowning Egypt really play Iran war mediator too?

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Facing a 95% reduction in Israeli gas and a Qatari LNG crisis, Egypt maneuvers as an indispensable but financially desperate mediator.

    Security

    What if Israel just won’t stop?

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Conflicting U.S.-Israeli war aims and Israel’s doctrine of perpetual military dominance risk trapping Washington in an open-ended conflict with no clear endgame

    Governance

    The bomb and the ayatollah: Islamic just war and the nuclear question in post-Khamenei Iran

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Khamenei’s death marks the potential end of doctrinal restraint on Iran’s nuclear program, as existential insecurity drives a shift toward hard-line realism.

    Security

    The US Decimated Iran’s Navy. How Does It Still Control the Strait of Hormuz?

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Iran’s “navy of ghosts”—mines, drones, and shore-based missiles—achieves a functional blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by making commercial transit uninsurable.

    Geopolitics

    Why Turkey will be a key regional powerbroker after Iran war

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Turkey’s historical and military weight makes it the indispensable powerbroker tasked with balancing a weakened Iran against Israeli expansionism and regional chaos.

    Geopolitics

    Will the Iran War Trip up TRIPP?

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    The Iran War threatens to derail TRIPP, forcing a strategic expansion of US infrastructure and security commitments across the Black Sea-Caspian corridor.

    Security

    How the Ukraine and Iran Wars Became Intertwined

    April 7, 2026 ARFA

    Iranian drone terror unites Ukraine and Gulf monarchies in a new defense pact, exchanging combat-proven counter-UAS expertise for strategic regional support.

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