Iran

Seul un changement de régime peut sauver l’Iran 0
- Analysis
- April 15, 2020
Aujourd’hui, on ne peut que se demander ce qui se passe dans la tête des dirigeants théocratiques de l’Iran. Autant, jusqu’à récemment, semblaient-ils avoir une stratégie gagnante face à l’Arabie saoudite dans le conflit par procuration au Yémen, dans la …
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Iran-U.S. Crisis Reminds Us How Culture Matters in Wartime 0
- Analysis, News, Repost
- January 15, 2020
As tensions have ratcheted up between the United States and Iran, a series of tweets by President Donald Trump threatening the deliberate targeting of Iranian cultural sites triggered a strong negative reaction around the world.

In fact, following Trump’s …
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Killing Suleimani: The Tricky Business of Predicting What Comes Next 0
- Analysis
- January 6, 2020
The killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani has triggered the writing of a plethora of op-eds and think-pieces. Many of these make bold predictions without, in fact, providing a great deal of factual basis to support them. In reality, it …
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Is the Iranian Empire Striking Back? Lessons from the Collapse of the Soviet Union 0
- Analysis
- December 6, 2019
Exporting the communist revolution was a defining mission of the Soviet Union. But in practice, this translated into redirecting massive amounts of resources away from the domestic sphere, where they were desperately needed, towards consolidating the USSR’s influence over other …
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