Nadia Massih welcomes Ali Vaez, Int’l Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President. As the EU formally designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, the foundations of state-to-state diplomacy face an irreversible rupture. Meanwhile, the US weighs military options. Are we witnessing the unraveling of diplomacy or the beginning of an existential clash between the West and the Islamic regime? Could Western coercion incite the regime to further crush internal dissent and embark on a ‘war of…
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Iraq caught between US and Iran, facing attacks from both warring sides & Iran-aligned actors within
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Hayder Al-Shakeri, Research Fellow with the MENA programme at Chatham House. Al-Shakeri describes Iraq...