Iran’s Unfinished War: Tehran’s Race Against Time

Iran may still be fighting to shape the war’s outcome, but the more consequential issue is whether Tehran can restore political cohesion, economic capacity and strategic coherence before the costs become irreversible.

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More than four months into the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran, it is easy to lose sight of Iran’s strategic position among the open-source chaff, much of it produced or amplified by one side or the other’s information operations. The reality is that Iran’s regime has survived not because it has prevailed militarily but […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. A strategic forecaster, Dr. Bokhari is now a Senior Resident Fellow with the Middle East Policy Council and a Senior Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Bokhari also teaches Eurasian Geopolitics at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program. Previously, 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