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Iran and the US: where is this heading now?
Iran–US talks are on the verge of collapse, as both sides cannot even agree on what the subject of the negotiations should be: a ceasefire, the Strait…
 • Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Why the world failed to bypass the Strait of Hormuz
In 2019, while working on the energy desk at Reuters, I began reporting on a question that has shadowed global oil markets for decades: what would…
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Mojtaba Khamenei’s bunker leadership
The war with Iran might not be won from the air alone, but it certainly won’t be won from the bunker either.
 • Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Mojtaba Khamenei’s leadership: a long-planned improvisation
One striking feature of Mojtaba Khamenei’s selection as the new supreme leader of the Islamic Republic is that most Iranians have never heard him speak.
 • Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Islamic Rebublic has little left to stand on
A week after the start of the U.S.
 • Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Iranian students burn flag, signaling a new phase in state–society rupture
The burning of the Islamic Republic’s national flag at three Iranian universities on Monday marks a new high in the widening rift between the state and…
 • Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
What the 1991 uprising in Iraq can teach US and Iran
Trump’s advisers warn against an Iraq- or Afghanistan-style intervention in Iran, but one can also point to the 1991 Iraqi uprising as a cautionary…
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