The Long View
Weekend strategic essays on where the region is heading, not just where it has been.
Iran
+6
Oct 15, 2026
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16 min read
Israel Votes in Twelve Days
What the October 27 election is about, who leads each of the lists, and what can happen after the polls close. A guide for readers outside Israel, with no side taken.
Iran
+5
Oct 11, 2026
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10 min read
First Movers
In the war on Iran, the United States has a cyber advantage it has used quietly and a messaging habit it keeps funding loudly. The next phase should reverse the order.
Iran
+7
Oct 7, 2026
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12 min read
The 87-Day Warning
In July 2023 a paper presented in the Knesset was right about Gaza and changed nothing in time. Three years later the warning concerns Israel’s alliance with the United States, and the decisions that fall between now and January.
Iran
+6
Oct 4, 2026
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14 min read
When the Plan Fails
A program of mine did not work, a partnership did not fit, and the war has not ended the regime in Tehran. Ten scholars on what to do after a plan fails, and what changes at the Forum.
Iran
+6
Sep 20, 2026
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15 min read
Will Washington Strike Iran Again?
The President is weighing whether to “go in and annihilate” Iran’s regime. Tehran has sent its conditions through Doha. How the Forum sets the odds of renewed American and Israeli strikes, and what would move them.
Iran
+4
Aug 31, 2026
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14 min read
The Empire That Isn't
Five years after Kabul, the Times says the lesson is learning how to quit. The evidence reads the other way: America does not police an empire, it preempts chaos, and every time it stops, the bill arrives.
Iran
+5
Aug 30, 2026
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15 min read
The Anti-Woke Diaspora: Surviving the Red-Green Alliance
Young Iranians in exile watched the left deliver power to the theocrats once. Twenty of them are now the West's clearest voices against doing it again, and the fight they are pointing at is inside Iran.
Iran
+5
Aug 28, 2026
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18 min read
The Next Six Months
Six months in, the shock is over and the attrition has begun. Twenty-five fronts the coalition has to manage between now and February.
Iran
+3
Aug 17, 2026
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11 min read
Tehran's War on American Morale
It is a military operation. Treat it like one. Plus: the file on Tehran Trita. Free for every reader.
Iran
+3
Aug 9, 2026
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8 min read
The Anatomy of a Leaked Operation
The Long View: The Mossad reassigned the men who promised to topple Tehran. The mission stands; the instrument was wrong. Plus the week in review and what to watch.
Iran
+5
Jun 22, 2026
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10 min read
Iran lost the war. Now it's charging admission.
A mined strait, a brand-new "Strait Authority," billions unfrozen — and a deal that rewards all of it.
