Power, Perception, and Politics in the Making of Iranian Grand Strategy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
נשיא חדש באיראן – משמעויות פנימיות, אזוריות ובינ”ל
This video is a short, 18-min introduction for Persian speakers (particularly those outside of Israel) on the main challenges facing Israel’s security policy, as well as Israel’s diplomatic opportunities.
When the Taliban captured Kabul, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi celebrated the United States’ “military defeat and withdrawal.” But behind the scenes, Tehran is worried.
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, published online 17 August 2021
The People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran – and specifically the relationship between the two – pose a number of policy challenges for the State of Israel.
On 27 March, during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Tehran during a six-country regional tour, he and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif signed the 25-year China-Iran cooperation agreement.
US-Iran relations and the nuclear program
Changes in Iran’s executive authority have produced changes in its grand strategy, under the same Supreme Leader and despite shared revolutionary boundaries.
The Middle East Institute-National University of Singapore’s ME 101 Lecture Series 2020 17 Sept 2020 Synopsis: Israel’s regional geopolitical position has evolved dramatically over the decades. Where it once waged wars of survival against combined Arab armies, it now cooperates with many of them, and has in fact formed a de facto front of sorts…
Interview with i24 News English, on the prospective Iran-China 25-year strategic cooperation agreement. Photo: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
Despite its declarations of self-sufficiency, the country still imports large amounts of agricultural staples from abroad, leaving its food basket vulnerable to supply shocks, sanctions-related payment difficulties, environmental volatility, and other risks.
A shadow war fought largely in secret has reached a new, more open phase.
Many aspects of Iranian engagement with the Eurasian Economic Union seem paltry, but the bloc offers a semblance of assured trade, diplomacy, and counter-Western alignment that could still be meaningful to Tehran amid multiple crises.
i24 News in Arabic, Hadaa al-Masaa, 19 April 2020, on US-China tensions amid the pandemic Q