Gaza & the Israel-Iran Regional War

Israel’s imperative to crush Hamas is likely to have the unintended consequence of destabilizing the region to Tehran’s benefit.

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Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel represents an inflection point in Iran’s four-decade conflict with Israel. It is a culmination of the Shiite Islamist regime’s efforts to exploit chronic turmoil within the Arab world, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and entrench itself in the strategic environs of the Jewish state. Israel in its counteroffensive will likely seriously […]

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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