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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 3, 2026, 10:58 PM

Iran Tightens the Noose: Kuwait Must Choose Israel

Kuwait stands on the precipice of an avoidable catastrophe that Western weapons cannot avert. For decades, bloated defense procurement has yielded an armed force optimized for twentieth-century desert tank warfare, leaving the nation blind to twenty-first-century gray-zone coercion. Squandering...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:57 PM

The Limits of Managing Iran

Washington must demonstrate that economic pressure is intended to produce a political outcome rather than become an end in itself. (ChatGPT AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.)

Washington has treated the Iranian threat as a problem to contain and postpone. Trump’s wager is that the greater danger now lies in allowing that strategy to continue. For nearly half a century, the United States has pursued a policy...

Sep 2, 2026, 4:59 AM

The CIA’s Covert Action for Regime Change in Iran

The Iranian regime is now at the weakest point in its vicious history. It no longer survives because it commands genuine legitimacy, inspires ideological loyalty, or offers Iranians a credible vision of their future. It survives primarily through its...

Sep 2, 2026, 4:57 AM

Ayatollah, We Are Tired: Dating and News Fatigue

I sat at a bar, sipping on margaritas with two friends I had gotten close to this year. The friendships were new but already dear to me. We gossiped about boys, how dating was going, and how hard it...

Brodie Mitchell

Sep 1, 2026, 3:38 PM

Iran Is Not Israel’s Problem. It’s Britain’s Problem.

Why should your average British person care about Iran? The Islamic Republic of Iran, to many in the West, particularly in the UK, is seen as Israel’s issue. As America’s issue. As a Middle Eastern issue. With Iran being thousands...

Aug 31, 2026, 12:25 AM

Why the US Must Not Waste Iran’s Strategic Opening

Free Iran. An AI Illustration.

Regime change in Iran is no longer a question of preference. It is a question of arithmetic. For four decades the Islamic Republic ran on a simple formula: stay dangerous enough to deter, stay opaque enough to avoid decisive defeat,...

Aug 28, 2026, 12:14 PM

Trump’s Pressure Campaign Comes for Iran

Washington must demonstrate that economic pressure is intended to produce a political outcome rather than become an end in itself. (ChatGPT AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.)

Can Washington force Tehran back to the negotiating table by making continued economic engagement with Iran increasingly costly for the rest of the world? When President Donald Trump announced a new escalation of economic pressure on Iran, critics portrayed the...

Aparajita Acharya

Aug 22, 2026, 5:18 PM

Iran Gets More Room in BRICS. Should Israel Worry?

The BRICS meeting in Jaipur on August 12 saw Iranian Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati push for Iran's entry into the New Development Bank, greater use of national currencies and closer payment-system links among members. The NDB is nowhere...

Aug 21, 2026, 5:42 PM

Why Iran’s Threat Keeps Coming Back

Detail of the Israeli national flag highlighting the Star of David, emphasizing its cultural significance as from the Pexels website (https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-the-flag-of-israel-4033852/).

What if the Middle East’s recurring confrontation with Iran is not simply a story about a hostile regime, missiles, nuclear facilities or proxy forces, but about a political system capable of repeatedly rebuilding its power—and what would it take...

Aug 20, 2026, 9:00 PM

Regime Change in Iran and the Reordering of the Gulf

Regime Change in Iran. An AI Illustration.

Discussions of “regime change” in Iran typically conflate two distinct questions: whether the Islamic Republic can be removed, and whether removing it would produce a stable successor. Comparative politics offers a useful distinction here: between a regime (a ruling...

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