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As West Asia remains mired in conflict, it is worth examining how the United States-led global war on terror inadvertently emboldened Iran, elevating it to a regional power that is now capable of confronting the U.S. in the ongoing conflict. Prior to 2001, Iran faced strategic containment from two hostile regimes: the Taliban in Afghanistan…
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah rarely appears in public. Hezbollah, which has exchanged fire with Israeli forces since October, last went to war with Israel in 2006 and has since expanded its domestic and regional influence, politically and militarily. Financed and armed by Iran, Hezbollah is the most prominent actor in the so-called axis of resistance…
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Palestinian group Hamas’ top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iran May 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Leaders of the Iran-led, so-called “axis of resistance”, including Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, discussed the war in Gaza during a meeting in Tehran on the sidelines of president Ebrahim Raisi’s funeral,…
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