Arabian Peninsula Security Beyond the Iran War

What was once a latent threat – Iranian strikes on Gulf Arab states – is now an operational reality with enduring consequences.

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The strategic environment that prevailed on the Arabian Peninsula prior to the outbreak of the war in Iran on Feb. 28 has been fundamentally and likely irreversibly altered. A long-standing and grave threat – a direct Iranian attack on Gulf Arab states – has become reality. However the conflict unfolds, Gulf Arab states now confront […]

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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