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Jan 3, 2020

Slavin and Kadhim quoted in USA Today on Iran’s actions in Iraq

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Jan 3, 2020

Slavin in The New York Times: Qassim Suleimani’s Killing Will Unleash Chaos

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Jan 3, 2020

Slavin joins CGTN to discuss killing of Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani

By Atlantic Council

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Jan 3, 2020

Slavin interviewed on Bloomberg discussing the assassination of Qassim Soleimani in Iraq

By Atlantic Council

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Jan 2, 2020

Slavin discusses the Iraq embassy attack with WBUR

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Dec 25, 2019

Slavin discusses Iran with Michael Morell on Intelligence Matters

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Dec 24, 2019

Japan balances Tehran and Washington

By Sachi Sakanashi

On December 19, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani visited Japan. The two-day visit was the first by an Iranian president since 2000. It also marked the third meeting between Rouhani and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this year. The Tokyo meeting covered an array of issues. The talks ranged from finding a means to utilize Iran’s […]

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Dec 20, 2019

Iran is losing sight of its “developmental vision”

By Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Jahromi’s postal drone offers a metaphor for perhaps the central political challenge facing the Islamic Republic. In the wake of a brutal response to protests that has left over 300 dead, commentators have pointed to a crisis of legitimacy now facing Iran’s leaders and their ideological tenets.

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Dec 19, 2019

Rethinking Iranian regional influence and internal stability

By Scheherazade Faramarzi

The upheavals in Iraq, Lebanon and inside Iran have prompted a national soul-searching. Iranian politicians, academics, sociologists and analysts—as well as ordinary people—are debating whether the Islamic Republic is weakened and over-extended or even heading toward internal collapse. The regime so far has not provided an official death toll for the domestic protests, which broke […]

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Dec 17, 2019

Landmine survivors feel the pinch of sanctions

By Holly Dagres

An estimated 20 million anti-personnel landmines were planted on roughly 16,200 square miles along the 680-mile Iran-Iraq border during the bloody eight-year conflict. Though the war ended thirty-one years ago, it still continues to claim lives.

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