On Friday, June 18, 2021, the Islamic Republic of Iran got not only a new president—Ebrahim Raisi[1]—but a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Raisi is seemingly a lackluster bureaucrat anointed... 
For all its talk of leading a "resistance front," the Islamic Republic of Iran has historically had few allies. When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led his revolutionaries, "Neither East nor West but Islamic Republic" was a... 
Analysis of Iranian activities since 1979 has been plagued first and foremost by the misperception that the system established by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was ever meant to be limited to Iran. In fact, once conquered by the... 
Islam's "flavor is unmistakable on whatever it touched."—Gustave von Grunebaum The Qur'an forbids Muslims to eat, drink, smoke, or en gage in sexual relations during daylight hours in the month of Ramadan. But the Qur'an says... 
Israeli media over the last weeks have indicated that Turkey-Israel relations might improve. According to numerous reports Turkey is planning steps to improve relations, or might even be tying the mending of relations to a... 
Burak Bekdil: Biden's Turkey policy is "badly zig-zagging" between "self-declared advocacy for universal democratic values and criticism of Turkey's democratic deficit in public" and "appeasement of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan behind closed doors." 
A.J. Caschetta: The Biden administration is refocusing American counterterrorism policy on right-wing extremism. As a result, "we should expect to see more Islamist terrorism in the US." 
In the Middle East, American allies and adversaries alike eagerly embrace Chinese involvement in their economies. From Jonathan Spyer.
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