Evaluating why structural opacity, IRGC entrenchment, and corruption prevent the U.S.-Iran reconstruction package from achieving meaningful impact.
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This policy brief examines why replicating Obama’s mistake on China threatens Indo-Pacific security and weakens critical regional deterrence.
The US Lost the Iran War, but the ceasefire is a necessary win, enabling a smarter, less militaristic foreign policy.
Five years after withdrawal, the Afghanistan reckoning exposes how exaggerated terror fears trapped America in a costly war that ended in Taliban victory.
Trump ended his idiotic Iran war. Now Democrats must protect the peace from saboteurs or risk repeating catastrophe.
Deconstructing the flaw in applying economic bargaining formulas to ideological regimes that derive their legitimacy from conflict rather than cooperation.
Trump says he ignores the Iran clock, but voters and polling trends show the midterm countdown is already hurting Republicans.
Iran’s foreign policy will not change after Raisi’s death; Khamenei has systematically sidelined the Foreign Ministry, centralizing control in his own office.