The war that began Feb. 28 hews to a familiar, dangerous pattern, writes an Iran expert, from deep, historical mistrust and incompatible strategic interests to miscommunication and misperception.
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Many Polymarket users won huge sums by correctly predicting when the US would strike Iran. Welcome to the gamification of information warfare.
Five Iranian soccer players have been granted humanitarian visas to stay in Australia. How did it get to this and what happens next?
More than 20 years after the US military success in Iraq, the outcome of the US effort at regime change wasn’t as expected, and authoritarians with close ties to Iran now rule the country.
Oil prices affect the US economy differently than in past decades. Nowadays, the US is less reliant on oil imports and uses less oil to produce more economic output.
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is helping advance Russian interests as it prepares for a spring offensive against Ukraine.
Why does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brag and gloat in his statements about the Iran war? In the MAGA media world, war is a game, a test of masculine fortitude.
Washington has long worked with Kurdish groups in the Middle East. But without sufficient support, encouraging Iranian Kurds into an uprising now could be dangerous.
Risks for the US economy grow as the war in the Middle East continues to escalate.
Wilson clashed with Lyndon B. Johnson on a personal level but made sure that the US and UK still cooperated where it most mattered.
Beijing has denounced US-Israeli action in Iran, but has not rushed to come to the aid of its regional ally.
These rules have developed over centuries as states sought to regulate the conduct of conflict at sea while still allowing navies to operate effectively.
Media reports have cast the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a top candidate for supreme leader. A scholar of Iranian politics explains how the succession process has never been free or fair.
The U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran raise uncomfortable questions about whether the post-1945 rules-based order still constrains the use of force by major powers.
Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.
The war between the US, Israel and Iran appears to be spreading beyond the Middle East.
A longtime diplomat explains how the State Department normally encourages and helps Americans to leave countries amid political instability and war – which didn’t happen over the last week.
Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.
Hezbollah’s entry into the current war followed the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The group has long been aligned with the Islamic Republic.
Struck by the success of large-scale, low-cost drone attacks, the US made covert efforts to capture Iranian Shahed-136s for technical analysis.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, American University
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in Energy Systems, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London
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Graduate Teaching Associate, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University