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The Iran War comes Home before the Midterms (opens the original)
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( Middle East Monitor ) – On September 15, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the conflict with Iran had cost the Department of Defense about $38 billion as of August 1. The report also traced consequences beyond military operations, including depleted missile-defense stocks and higher energy prices. As the 2026 midterms approach, it documents how a war overseas has become part of domestic economic life. The midterms are not a formal referendum on the war. Americans will be choosing
Future AI Harm? It Is already Complicit in Gaza Genocide (opens the original)
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( Middle East Monitor ) – Much is being said right now about the dangers posed by AI and the possibility that it could ultimately wipe out humanity. Some exp erts, such as Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead and one of the AI industry’s leading safety researchers, have gone much further, warning publicly that there is more than a 10 percent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade. When senior executives from some of the world’s leading AI companies met in San Fr
Does Netanyahu want Israel to be Sparta or to Join US Military-Industrial Complex? (opens the original)
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( Middle East Monitor ) – Is Israel really moving towards military self-reliance – or is the US-Israel “special relationship” being transformed into something even more deeply integrated? Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel must become a “Super Sparta” was presented as a response to growing international isolation. The message was stark: if Israel could no longer depend upon an international order willing to arm it, finance it and defend its policies indefinitely, then it would have to
Can the economic blockade on Iran succeed this time? (opens the original)
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( Middle East Monitor ) — On 24 August, the Trump administration launched an operation called “Economic Outcast”, describing it as the largest economic offensive ever undertaken against Iran’s financial links around the world, aimed at cutting off every potential source of revenue that funds the country, and as more forceful than any such campaign the United States has previously launched against its adversaries. This operation threatens any party dealing with the Iranian regime with direct conf
When Iran Ruled the World, from Baghdad to Delhi (opens the original)
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Review of Imperial Iran in the Eighteenth Century: Identity and State Formation under Nader by Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa, University of Edinburgh Press, 2026. ( Middle East Monitor ) – In July 1732, Nader Shah Afsharid, established a religious endowment in the Afghan city of Herat shortly after conquering it. In the preface to the deed, it was written that Nader was a What is striking about the passage is who it doesn’t mention, the Safavid ruler Tahmasp is missing from the excerpt and more bra
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