Economic blockades have long been used as a tool of coercion, deliberately positioned between diplomacy and war. From the British naval blockade of Germany in World War I, which helped weaken the ...

Alex Vatanka is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. He specializes in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran. He was formerly a Senior Analyst at Jane’s ...

Jason H. Campbell is senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), where he focuses on international security, geopolitics, and foreign policy. Prior to joining MEI, he was a senior policy ...

About two-thirds of Americans (67%) disapprove of how Trump has handled the Iran war, including a majority (54%) who say they “strongly disapprove,” according to a new NBC News Decision Desk/Survey ...

With a tenuous cease-fire now in place and the possibility that the fighting may resume, it is worth revisiting what the United States and Israel were actually trying to accomplish in their war with ...

The announcement followed meetings between the two countries’ ambassadors in Washington under the auspices of US Secretary of ...

As Lebanese, Israeli, and American teams prepare for their first-ever trilateral leaders summit, it is time to reflect on this opportunity and lessons from the past. Most Lebanese have yearned for ...

Larijani had long served as a translator between Iran’s hard power and the diplomatic idiom required to manage it abroad.

This is the third in a series of articles examining and rebutting the shu al-badīl? (“What’s the alternative?”) argument in the run-up to this year’s presidential elections, when Bashar al-Assad, ...

In September 2022, urban centers across Iran reverberated with the sound of protest. The scale and uninhibited nature of these demonstrations against the repressive Islamic Republic were in and of ...

Amid the ongoing circus over efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, two rumors have started to gain traction inside and outside Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is on his deathbed ...

In the pursuit of its national interests, Omani foreign policy is largely based on long-standing principles of good neighborly relations, mutual respect, tolerance, non-interference and ...