Over 45 years, the deep state of security organizations has determined the “big game” of Iran’s foreign policy to the detriment of successive presidential administrations
Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and critical economic infrastructure, and Iranian retaliation, would take the war into a new and even more dangerous phase
The continued lack of decisive action from Iran, while Israel steadily “salami sliced" the leadership of the Axis of Resistance, risked diminishing Iran’s influence in the region and over its partners and proxies
As tensions rise in the Middle East, some see a new opportunity to destabilize or possibly overthrow the Iranian government, but even in Iran’s prisons, dissidents struggle to find common ground
