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Calculating Victory: How Iran Views Confronting the United States
If Washington does not demonstrate through both word and deed the risks that Tehran faces, overly optimistic Iranian hardliners may wrongly decide that the benefits of a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz outweigh the costs.
Jan 18, 2012
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  • Patrick Clawson
Brief Analysis
Hizballah Poised to Strike in Southeast Asia
New discoveries regarding Hizballah bombmaking in Thailand are no surprise given the group's long history of terrorist operations in Southeast Asia.
Jan 18, 2012
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  • Matthew Levitt
In-Depth Reports
Sinai: A New Front
The peninsula has emerged as a hotspot in the complex Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jan 10, 2012
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  • Ehud Yaari
Michael Singh on C-SPAN
Appearing on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Institute managing director Michael Singh talked about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. Topics included Tehran's warning to Washington that the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis should not return to the Persian Gulf, the strategic and economic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, and
Jan 8, 2012
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  • Michael Singh
Brief Analysis
The Pentagon's New Defense Strategic Guidance: Pivoting to Asia, But Still Stuck in the Middle East
Despite Washington's desire to focus on the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East regrettably holds much unfinished business for the United States and its military.
Jan 6, 2012
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  • Michael Eisenstadt
Articles & Testimony
The Real Iranian Threat in the Gulf
As Iran's posture in the Strait of Hormuz becomes increasingly bellicose, excessive risk aversion that results in a failure of deterrence and feeds the regime's sense of impunity may be just as risky as military action.
Jan 3, 2012
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  • Michael Singh
Brief Analysis
Iran's Strait of Hormuz: A Challenge to U.S. Policy
Threats by Tehran to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz may be bluster, but they also represent a bigger policy challenge to the United States.
Dec 29, 2011
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  • Simon Henderson
Articles & Testimony
On Iran, Pressure Works
Washington and its allies can still prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons through nonmilitary means.
Dec 24, 2011
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  • Dennis Ross
Articles & Testimony
Israel Is Wide Awake as Decision Time Approaches on Nuclear Iran
Far from sleepwalking into war with Iran, Israelis have their eyes wide open on the nuclear threat and expect others to do the same.
Dec 22, 2011
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  • Michael Herzog
Brief Analysis
Iraq's Political Crisis: Challenges for U.S. Policy
In responding to the political crisis in Iraq, Washington should encourage constitutional processes and respect for political and human rights rather than any particular outcome.
Dec 21, 2011
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  • Michael Knights
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In-Depth Reports
An Iranian Nuclear Breakout Is Not Inevitable
Much of the rhetoric surrounding the Iranian nuclear impasse has been marked by Tehran's staunch refusal to budge and pessimism among Western analysts that increasingly strong diplomatic and economic measures will ever have their desired effect. Yet several avenues for progress have opened up amid an environment of incrementally effective
Dec 20, 2011
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  • Patrick Clawson
Brief Analysis
Intervention in Syria: Assessing the Options
Without external intercession, the violence in Syria is likely to escalate, with destabilizing consequences for its neighbors, particularly Lebanon and Iraq.
Dec 13, 2011
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  • Michael Eisenstadt
  • Jeffrey White
Brief Analysis
A Fresh Start to U.S.-Iraqi Relations
Washington and Baghdad should begin laying the groundwork for a real strategic relationship that assuages Maliki's insecurities while emphasizing U.S. red lines on Iran, human rights, and other issues.
Dec 10, 2011
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  • Michael Knights
Articles & Testimony
Strategic (Mis)communication on Iran
Privately discussing U.S. concerns about military action against Iran is both responsible and necessary. Musing upon them publicly, however, is a strategic error.
Dec 7, 2011
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  • Michael Singh
Articles & Testimony
Iran's Rattling Saber
If recent provocations are any indicator, Tehran might become so fearful of an overt war that it starts one itself.
Dec 1, 2011
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  • Mehdi Khalaji
Brief Analysis
Asad's Armed Opposition: The Free Syrian Army
The growing armed opposition movement against the Asad regime is becoming an increasingly important element in the Syrian equation.
Nov 30, 2011
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  • Jeffrey White
Brief Analysis
Impact of Sanctioning Iran's Central Bank
The debate over whether to sanction the Central Bank of Iran must consider the effectiveness of such action and the consequences for the world economy.
Nov 29, 2011
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  • Patrick Clawson
  • Simon Henderson
Brief Analysis
Israel's Closing Window to Strike Iran
Although Israel is in favor of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran, its calculus is also based on how much time is left for military strikes to be effective.
Nov 22, 2011
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  • David Makovsky
Articles & Testimony
Only Threat of Military Action Will Stop Iran
For nuclear diplomacy to succeed, Tehran must believe that the United States will take military action against any effort to build a bomb.
Nov 22, 2011
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  • Michael Eisenstadt
Multimedia
Brief Analysis
Sinai: The New Frontier of Conflict?
On November 16, 2011, Ehud Yaari and Normand St. Pierre addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Mr. Yaari is a Lafer international fellow with the Institute and a Middle East commentator for Israel's Channel Two television. Col. St. Pierre, a thirty-one-year veteran of the U.S. Army, retired recently
Nov 20, 2011
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  • Ehud Yaari

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Michael Eisenstadt
Michael Eisenstadt
Michael Eisenstadt is the Kahn Senior Fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Military and Security Studies Program.
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Michael Knights
Michael Knights is the Jill and Jay Bernstein Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and cofounder of the Militia Spotlight platform, which offers in-depth analysis of developments related to Iran-backed militias.
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Grant Rumley
Grant Rumley is the Meisel-Goldberger Senior Fellow and Director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Elizabeth Dent
Elizabeth Dent is a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she focuses on U.S. foreign and defense policy toward the Gulf states, Iraq, and Syria.
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