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Print Issue No. 16: IRAN: THE BREAKING POINT
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January 2026
Recent Articles
The Real Iran Problem
For almost five decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has survived sustained American pressure not through strength, legitimacy, or economic resilience, but through strategic utility. Tehran has learned to convert asymmetric tools—hostage diplomacy, proxy warfare, and ideological export—into leverage within a shifting global order. Unfortunately, Washington has treated Tehran as a self-contained Middle Eastern problem […]
American Security Interests in Asia
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took a calculated gamble to call for elections only four months into her tenure. The Liberal Democratic Party was in deep trouble with the Japanese electorate. While LDP objectionable behavior seems modest compared to European or US values, it represented an arrogance by the LDP that deeply offended Japanese voters. […]
Iran at the Edge: Pressure, Transition, and the Responsibility of Clarity
Maximum Pressure Is a Strategy — Not a Spectacle In a recent interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, Reza Pahlavi — son of the late Shah of Iran — spoke about the brutal repression inside Iran, where protesters are executed, dissidents are silenced, and a generation lives under the constant shadow of state violence. […]
