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Reading Between the Lines: Why Rezaee’s CNN Interview Is More About Messaging Than Negotiation
Tehran does not expect negotiations to produce a breakthrough, it wants to shape the narrative around any future escalation My reading of Rezaee’s CNN interview is that it is primarily directed at Western audiences and the cameras, not because Tehran genuinely expects negotiations to produce a breakthrough, but because it wants to shape the narrative… Continue reading
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System Disruption as Strategy: Trump’s Infrastructure Warfare on Iran
The Evolution of Targeting in the Iran Campaign From Military Objectives to Civil Networks A strike on the B1 Bridge along the Tehran-Karaj northern bypass marks a documented expansion of targeting into civilian infrastructure with no established military function. The structure formed part of a major urban transport project designed to ease congestion across a… Continue reading
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Iran as an Underdog has Proven Effective and now Holds Significant Leverage
The consequences of underestimation and misreading capability by the United States and Israel has resulted in measurable strategic cost The available evidence indicates that the scale and resilience of Iranian state capacity under sustained attack have been materially underestimated in much Western policy analysis, despite repeated cautions issued over several years by academic specialists in… Continue reading
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