Communal Shiite fear, not Tehran’s command, is regenerating the Axis of Resistance from below.
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An analysis of the Washington think tanks that promoted the Iran war, highlighting their historical role in advocating for the Iraq invasion.
Washington must deepen its partnership with Iraqi Kurdistan by providing air defenses to counter Iranian-backed militia strikes and ensure regional stability.
Iraq’s complicity with Iran-backed militias during the current war demands a U.S. recalibration of security aid and targeted sanctions against Baghdad officials.
The parallels between Iraq and Iran highlight a failure to prosecute historical war crimes, enabling a repeat of illegal, unilateral military aggression.
Iraq’s governance reaches a point of terminal absurdity as state-funded militias attack the very national infrastructure the government protects.
High-end Iranian air defenses have inflicted heavier U.S. aircraft losses in one month than seen in decades of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
To avoid a decade-long trap, the U.S. must offer Iran a path to normalization rather than pursuing futile, open-ended containment.
Technical barriers and storage exhaustion prevent an immediate recovery of energy markets, despite the implementation of a fragile ceasefire in Iran.
Iraq’s oil export paralysis underscores the strategic cost of domestic political deadlock and the necessity of external mediation to secure global energy flows.