A war meant to bend Tehran now traps Washington The Iranian crisis now carries all the familiar features of recent Western wars: overwhelming technological superiority, deep-strike capabilities, enormous military spending and, at the same time, uncertain political results, sometimes opposite to the stated goals. The United States has…
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A War That Does Not Protect Us There is one point Europe continues to avoid, as if it had become inconvenient even to name it: the attack on Iran is not merely another episode in the long hostility between the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic. It…
Iran at the Center of Systemic Competition Beyond the Immediate Trigger The current military pressure on Iran cannot be understood as a reactive episode tied to a specific provocation. It fits into a longer strategic arc that has shaped the Near and Middle East since the end of…