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The biggest unanswered questions about the Hezbollah pager attack

Over the past two days, the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has been targeted with an attack as sophisticated and audacious as it is brutal, with the devices in their own pockets turned into deadly weapons. On Tuesday, hundreds of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members and associates in Lebanon …

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Armenia Isn’t All That Important To Iran’s Economic & National Security

Iran has ulterior motives for opposing the Zangezur Corridor. Iran’s continued opposition to the Zangezur Corridor, which was earlier analyzed here and here, is predicated on the assumption that Armenia is very important to its economic and national security. The thinking goes that they’d be harmed if Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye …

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The twentieth parliamentary scene and the prospects for political modernization

This paper presents a reading of the results of the recent Jordanian parliamentary elections in relation to the partisan aspect, and presents a set of scenarios for the parliamentary scene of the twentieth council on the one hand, and for the path of political modernization on the other hand. Executive …

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