Salem AlKetbi
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Strangling Iran: Will Trump’s endgame win out? (opens the original)
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Dr. Salem AlKetbi is a UAE political analyst and former Federal National Council candidate After nearly six months of war, Washington seems ready to move its fight with Iran into a new arena that could hurt more than bombs. Military damage can be fixed or softened over time. Long war drains something no state can survive without. That something is money. The U.S. strategy is shifting toward cutting off the funds that keep both Iran’s government and its war machine running, and blocking the paths
Strangling Iran: Will Trump’s endgame win out? (opens the original)
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Dr. Salem AlKetbi is a UAE political analyst and former Federal National Council candidate After nearly six months of war, Washington seems ready to move its fight with Iran into a new arena that could hurt more than bombs. Military damage can be fixed or softened over time. Long war drains something no state can survive without. That something is money. The U.S. strategy is shifting toward cutting off the funds that keep both Iran’s government and its war machine running, and blocking the paths
Iran between contiguous geography and fragmented polity (opens the original)
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Dr. Salem AlKetbi is a UAE political analyst and former Federal National Council candidate On the map, Iran may look like a cohesive state. Inside, however, it is a patchwork of ethnic groups, religious sects, and regions that differ widely in wealth and integration. The question of its future begins with this paradox. This goes beyond the prospect of the regime’s collapse to the fate of the state itself, should the center that has long held its peripheries together through force, identity, and
Drying up Hormuz: How weaponized geography backfires (opens the original)
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Dr. Salem AlKetbi is a UAE political analyst. There are two ways to read what is unfolding around the Strait of Hormuz today. The first is familiar: the strait is a vital chokepoint through which, before the war, roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied gas passed; tensions make this narrow neck vulnerable to rising insurance costs and disruptions to tanker traffic. The second, and the more consequential in the long run, is a clash between two opposing strategic logics. On one side, an
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