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If the World Withdraws, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Will Consider It a Green Light to Purge Those Who Resist Its Vision
Iran Appears Confident That It Can Survive and Is Conducting Aggressive Diplomacy to Fend off Attacks on Infrastructure
Margarita Island Is the Keystone in Iran’s Western Hemispheric Geopolitical Structure
The Revolutionary Guard and Other Security Bodies Monitor Society, Suppress Dissent, and Preserve the Regime’s Grip on Power
Regime Officials Threatened War in the Caspian Sea and Promised to Punish Ukraine and the United States
American missile defense is winning every engagement and losing the war. The remedy is an offensive campaign against Iran’s launchers
The Regime Claims Its ‘Deep Mistrust’ of the United States Stems from a Long History of American ‘Wrongdoing’
The Regime Media Continue to Portray the Current Phase of the War as Unprovoked, Omitting Iran’s Assaults on Shipping
Araghchi Claims That the War Occurred Because Tehran Refused Concessions That Would Limit Uranium Enrichment
Islamist Extremist Voices Advocating More Confrontational Policies Have Gained the Upper Hand in Tehran
If Iran Follows Parts of the Memorandum of Understanding, It Will Not Necessarily Lead to Broader Moderation
A Lawsuit Filed in U.S. Federal Court Alleges Iranian Intelligence Officers Tracked, Threatened, Assaulted, and Attempted to Assassinate a 57-Year Old American-Iranian Activist
They Are Competing to Protect and Advance Their Power and Economic Interests amid the Vacuum That Emerged After the Elimination of Ali Khamenei
Under the Pressure of War and a Succession Crisis, the IRGC Has Become Something Close to the State Itself
The Lesson of the MOU, as Gulf Governments Currently Read It, Is That the American Security Relationship Is an Input Into Iranian Strategic Calculations Rather than a Constraint Upon Them
The Islamic Republic Uses the Men’s National Soccer Team to Promote Propaganda and to Enforce Political Compliance
His Government Emerged from the Same Forces That Have Run Iraq for Two Decades, Under the Supervision of Iran’s Qods Force
Government Media Present Iran as a Central Actor Seeking to Define the Rules of a New Regional Order
The Memorandum Helps Recast the Regime as the Custodian of Iranian Sovereignty, Rather than a Phase in Its Political Evolution
With the U.S. Pledging Non-Interference in Domestic Affairs, the Revolutionary Guards May Believe They Have a Green Light to Slaughter Far More