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By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow, Victoria University Alarmed by an intelligence assessment that Iran will be able to produce nuclear weapons within months if not weeks, Israel has launched a massive air campaign aiming to destroy the country’s nuclear program. … Continue reading “Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major war – by striking Iran now? And what happens next?”
By Benjamin Zala, Senior Lecturer, Politics & International Relations, Monash University Conflict between Israel and Iran is intensifying, after Israeli airstrikes on key nuclear sites and targeted assassinations last week were followed by counter-strikes by Iran on Israel. These attacks have come at a moment of growing concern over Iran’s nuclear program, and have prompted … Continue reading “Why is there so much concern over Iran’s nuclear program? And where could it go from here?”
By Jeffrey Fields, Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign … Continue reading “US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel’s strikes on Tehran”