The Future of an Escalating US-Iran Conflict

Absent a major conflict or a domestic upheaval inside Iran, there’s no reason to believe Tehran’s gains in the Middle East can be reversed.

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Iran’s efforts to challenge the United States in the Middle East are reaching an inflection point. After decades of reshaping the domestic political environments of different regional countries in its favor, Tehran is now using its alliance structure to create strategic problems for Washington. U.S. efforts to counter Iran by fighting its proxies have not […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari