How the Attacks on Iran Are Part of a Much Bigger Global Struggle To my mind, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with the sole aim of wiping its democracy off the map and absorbing it into Russia, and the attacks on Israel in 2023 by Hamas and Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq were manifestations of a global struggle between the forces of inclusion and the forces of resistance
Iran’s Regime Rattled but Resilient—So Far | Council on . . . After a week of Israeli attacks on its top military leaders and nuclear infrastructure, Iran’s autocratic regime still appears capable of weathering the conflict But a power struggle looms
How the world reacted to America’s strikes on Iran . . . Hamas and the Houthis are part of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance, a collection of pro-Iranian proxies stretching from Yemen to Lebanon that for years gave the Islamic Republic considerable
How Iran Became Isolated in the Middle East | TIME Much of the regime’s top military command has been taken out, to say nothing of the civilian toll Iran and China, for their part, struck a 25-year cooperation deal in 2021 But what Tehran