While many delegations attended Khamenei’s funeral, only Pakistan and Iraq sent their prime ministers.
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A MIddle East expert addresses some of the key questions about the renewed conflict.
The MoU signed by the US and Iranian presidents was never likely to hold.
Targeted killings can disrupt an adversary, but they rarely lead to collapse — especially when the target is a nation-state like Iran.
The newly appointed leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ahmad Vahidi, has emerged as the key powerbroker as the conflict continues.
Donald Trump and his senior advisers have threatened to leave Nato over alliance members’ reluctance to join the war in Iran.
Once a strong force after the Iranian Revolution, the office of the president slowly diminished over time as power centralized under the supreme leader.
Over neatly five decades, Tehran has threatened to close the waterway whenever faced with an international crisis.
Politicians from all three Abrahamic religions are using scripture to back their positions.
Iran has used its ability to close the waterway many times over the past 40 years.
Donald Trump’s revival of a ‘roadmap’ to peace dismissed by Iran in 2025 suggests he is looking for a way out of an increasingly unwinnable war.
Rhetoric on both sides has gone from criticising the behaviour of their adversary to labeling its character as fundamentally ‘evil’.
Several people on the list are deeply embedded in Iran’s political, intelligence and security architecture.
Declassified documents reveal details about the long history of the US seeking allies willing to cooperate to kill.
The war that began Feb. 28 hews to a familiar, dangerous pattern, writes an Iran expert, from deep, historical mistrust and incompatible strategic interests to miscommunication and misperception.
Media reports have cast the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a top candidate for supreme leader. A scholar of Iranian politics explains how the succession process has never been free or fair.
The conflict gets more dangerous by the day.
Ali Khamenei’s son is known less for speeches or religious authority than for his influence and the networks he’s built behind the scenes.
Tehran’s presence in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea is selective and opportunistic.
A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy for decades.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
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Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, Inaugural Co-Director of Centre for AI Futures, SOAS, University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Graduate Teaching Associate, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Vice Provost and Dean of College of Arts, Sciences, and Education, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Director, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), Deakin University
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, University of Central Florida
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Fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver
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Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Ph.D. Researcher, International Security and Foreign Policy, Virginia Tech
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Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies, Utrecht University