
Ilan Berman
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Ilan Berman
@ilanberman
Senior VP, @afpc. Editor-in-Chief, STATECRAFT & STRATEGY. Views my own. Forbes contributor. Board member, RFE/RL and MBN. Sanctioned by Russia.


Ali Larijani’s successor, Hossein Dehghan, holds a PhD in Management. He was one of the students who occupied the US embassy in Tehran. He also commanded the IRGC forces in Lebanon and was among the orchestrators of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. The look on his face says it all.




Iran is prepared for the long game, says international affairs scholar Vali Nasr. “The longer this war goes on, the more Iran is building leverage and the more the strategic calculations of Israel and the United States appear to be falling short,” argues @vali_nasr.

🔴 Iran's judiciary announces the first publicly known execution of 3 men arrested in January protests - report




Islamic regimes Mohammad Marandi: “We are now prepared for total war”


Normal graphic on the front page of the @nytimes

