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President Trump vows to seize Iran's main oil export hub "in the not too distant future," a move that would likely require US ground troops.
🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran warns that the shaky ceasefire in the three-month Middle East war was now "practically meaningless" following fresh strikes by the United States that saw Tehran respond with attacks around the region.
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How has Iran thought about nuclear weapons from the Shah’s era to today? Sina Azodi joins the podcast to talk about his new book Iran and the Bomb
pomeps.org/iran-and-the...
NEW: "The unprecedented regional war is just a few months old and much speculation has swirled about whether it will exacerbate or dampen Gulf interest, investment, and interventions in Sudan’s war."
Kholood Khair examines what the war means for Sudan: timep.org/2026/06/11/g...
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"The non-lethal effects of drone strikes have substantial humanitarian and political costs."
We are proud to highlight some outstanding new research on drone strikes by @aidanmilliff.com, Paolo Bertolotti, Fotini Christia, and Ali Jadbabaie at IWI.
AFP News Agency
Israeli Defense Officials Warn Iran Succeeds in Limiting IDF Freedom of Action / by tying ceasefire to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. How interesting.
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have repeatedly ordered the US military to murder civilians — outside the context of any legally declared war — and it has dutifully complied with those orders, again and again: www.theredoubt.net/the-us-milit...
Israeli military construction in Syria “included mine-laying operations, the demolition of civilian homes, forced displacement, and the destruction of agricultural land and forested areas…”
— Middle East Eye
www.middleeasteye.net/news/ceasefi...
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On this week’s episode of the podcast, Sina Azodi of the George Washington University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his book, Iran and the Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question. The bo...
New research using cellphone data from Yemen reveals that U.S. drone strikes cause widespread civilian displacement and communication spikes, even when avoiding casualties. These non-lethal disruption...
Satellite imagery shows Israel has developed a string of bases from the Mediterranean to the Yarmouk River in newly occupied territory. Sources say it looks like they're here to stay
Military Officials Warned That if This Policy Continues Unchanged, It Is Likely to Lead to an Erosion in the Deterrence Israel Built Over the Past Two-and-a-half Years of War and Harm Israel's Freedom...
From our new issue: "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War" by @nisrinelamin.bsky.social traces key elements of the political economy of Sudan's war and situates it within a longer history of state violence.
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
The United States military murdered three Indian seafarers.
India says a US strike on a vessel has killed three Indian sailors. It comes after the US and Iran traded strikes for a second night in a row. Also overnight, Trump said Iranian officials had asked hi...
