Tag: Iran
Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and...
Shukriya Bradost, Virginia Tech
The 12-day confrontation between Iran and Israel in June 2025 may not have escalated into...
What happens next in US-Iran relations will be informed by the...
Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Trump administration’s decision to bomb Iran dramatically...
Presidents of both parties have launched military action without Congress declaring...
Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology
In the wake of the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities on June...
Nuclear scientists have long been targets in covert ops – Israel...
Jenna Jordan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Rachel Whitlark, Georgia Institute of Technology
At least 14 nuclear scientists are...
Saudi Arabia’s role as Ukraine war mediator advances Gulf nation’s diplomatic rehabilitation...
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University
Saudi Arabia is 2,000 miles from Ukraine and even more politically distant, so at...
Assad’s fall in Syria will further weaken Hezbollah and curtails Tehran’s...
Mireille Rebeiz, Dickinson College
The fall of President Bashar Assad will not only affect the 24 million Syrians who...
Iran’s strike on Israel was retaliatory – but it was also...
Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver
Israel and Iran are at war. In truth, the two sides have been fighting...
Israeli actions have the cover of ‘moral hazard’ − a touch...
Charles Walldorf, Wake Forest University
Sometimes, superpowers have a hard time getting smaller allies to do what they want...
EXPLORING NATURE
Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship could transform astronomy by making space...
Martin Elvis, Smithsonian Institution
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully...
