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DEFENSE10 DAYS AGO
Without a binding ‘no aggression, no threat’ US guarantee, no war-ending deal can make headway
Any war-ending deal with Iran must include a binding and enforceable US commitment to non-aggression and no future threats against Iran or its allies; without which any deal or understanding is merely a lull before another storm.
POLITICS12 DAYS AGO
One front: Why Iran links any war-ending deal to ending US-Israeli aggression across all fronts
Iran's integrated security doctrine insists that any war-ending deal must cease US-Israeli aggression across all fronts – Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Palestine – as regional security is indivisible and a separate peace on any single front is strategically untenable
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DEFENSE14 DAYS AGO
Why expelling US military and dismantling their assets are key to regional peace and stability
The recent US-Israeli war against Iran exposed American military bases as magnets for regional destabilization, underscoring how host countries can become legitimate targets rather than protected allies and suggesting that durable regional peace and security ultimately depend on the expulsion of US forces and the dismantlement of their military infrastructure.
DEFENSE21 DAYS AGO
Iran’s new military command and strategic shift toward offensive deterrence and integrated warfare
The new military appointments by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution signal an important strategic realignment emphasizing offensive deterrence, popular mobilization, ideological cohesion, unified command and modernization amid continued enemy hostility.
DEFENSEONE MONTH AGO
Strait of Hormuz as strategic fulcrum: Iran’s credible deterrence and the limits of US coercion
Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in response to the continued US violations of the MoU and a fresh wave of military aggression, constitutes a calibrated strategy of cost imposition, transforming defensive action into decisive geopolitical leverage.
VIEWPOINTONE MONTH AGO
From Strait of Hormuz to Bab al-Mandeb: Iran’s blueprint for new regional order after US breaks MoU
US broke the MoU through military aggression and economic warfare, leaving Iran no choice but lawful self-defense, so now the Strait of Hormuz is Iran's sovereign lever to dismantle the old US-dominated order and establish a new regional reality where outsiders have no role to play.
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DEFENSEONE MONTH AGO
Martyrs’ blood is sacred: The strategic imperative of retribution in the light of Leader’s message
Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei's emphasis on retribution for the martyred Leader and thousands of other martyrs signals a carefully calibrated doctrinal shift, intertwining religious obligation, strategic deterrence, and national unity in pursuit of justice against American-Israeli perpetrators through judicial, diplomatic, and public avenues.