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March 3, 2023

Iran
Women This Week: Iranian Schoolgirls Targeted by Poison Attacks

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers February 25 to March 3.

School girls walk down the street in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's birth village of Aradan, east of Tehran, March 12, 2008.
Blog Post by Caroline Kapp Women Around the World

January 6, 2012

You Might Have Missed: Special Operations, Drones, and a No-Fly Zone on the Moon

- Kimberly Dozier, “Spec-Ops troops study to be part-spy, part-gumshoe,” Miami Herald, January 3, 2012. Major General Bennet Sacolick said he was shocked at how piecemeal intelligence gathering and …

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Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

March 29, 2014

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Weekend Reading: No Way to Defeat Takfiris, Handicapping Turkey’s Elections, and Syria’s borders.

Nader Bakkar says that harsh punishment, such as the recent wave of death sentences on Muslim Brotherhood members, is no way to combat radical takfiri ideology. Michael Koplow asks what will happen …

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

February 6, 2012

Iran
The Nature of the Islamic Republic

Two keen insights into the nature of Iran’s regime have appeared recently. The first is an account by a German journalist who was imprisoned in Iran in October 2010 "after interviewing the son of Sa…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

October 3, 2014

Weekend Reading: Mapping the Middle East, What ISIS Is Not, and Egypt’s Total Information Awareness

In this interactive map, David McCandless charts the key players in the Middle East and the relationships between them. Alireza Doostdar argues that ISIS is more a product of war and instability tha…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates