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Iran's supreme leader moved Monday to temporarily shore up the country's leadership after the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi a day earlier, while analysts said that there is likely to be a behind-the-scenes struggle in Tehran to fill the unexpected power vacuum.
The war-is-on-off-on-again developments Monday left White House officials scrambling to track what was happening and what it all meant.
Jon B. Alterman Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program Q1: Why did U.S. and British forces attack Yemen? A1: In response to more than 25 attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels in Yemen in the last two months, theJon B. Alterman Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program Q1: Why did U.S. and British forces attack Yemen? A1: In response to more than 25 attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea by Houthi rebel...
KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel have riled commercial shipping and threatened to dangerously escalate heightened tensions in the Middle East. On Thursday, the U...
Israel’s military strategies are boomeranging