Tehran’s Hard-Liners Squandered Decades of Strategic Capital and Undermined Deterrence; How to Make NATO More European; Precision Strikes Will Not Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program—or Its Government
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on television in Tehran, June 2025

How Iran Lost

Tehran’s Hard-Liners Squandered Decades of Strategic Capital and Undermined Deterrence

By Afshon Ostovar

 

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How to Make NATO More European

The Supreme Allied Commander for Europe Should Also Be From Europe

By Jeremy Shapiro

 
The Tehran oil refinery following the Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iran, June 2025

Israel’s Futile Air War

Precision Strikes Will Not Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program—or Its Government

By Robert A. Pape

 

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America Should End Israel’s War on Iran—Not Join It

How Trump Can Prevent a Disastrous Escalation

By Daniel C. Kurtzer and Steven N. Simon

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