Leadership decapitation has long appealed to outside powers as a shortcut to regime collapse. Remove the figure at the top, ...

With the Strait of Hormuz closed and oil production from Iraq’s south in free fall, Baghdad’s failure to maximize the ...

That nearly indiscriminate Iranian strategy has, however, had the even greater short-term advantage of disrupting the global oil and financial markets, thereby creating mounting domestic, regional, ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) hosted a webinar on March 18, from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM, discussing Gulf perspectives on the war in Iran. As the war enters its third week, the Iranian regime continues ...

The United States and Israel both hope for the grand prize: the emergence of a new regime in Iran to replace the Islamic Republic. For the US, this would close the chapter on a hostile and at times ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) invites you to join an online discussion examining the rapidly escalating war involving Iran. Recent developments—including Israeli claims of targeting senior Iranian ...

Despite claiming they are poised to attack, the Yemeni Houthis have yet to join Iran and its other proxies in their fight against the United States and Israel. Hosts Alistair Taylor and Matthew Czekaj ...

The war against Iran has entered its third week with no clear endgame—and no clear strategy from Washington. At one point President Trump appeared to encourage Iranian Kurdish groups to rise up ...

Please join the Middle East Institute (MEI) for a webinar exploring Israeli views of the war in the Middle East. Two-and-a-half weeks after the United States and Israel launched a military campaign ...

The decision U.S. President Donald Trump made to attack Iran was a high-stakes gamble. The gamble is not really in the military campaign itself, which is unfolding in jaw-droppingly competent fashion.