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Friedrich Merz
Europe

Germany's grandstanding on Iran: The best Europe can muster?

Chancellor Merz predicts the demise of the regime, but it's just more performative rhetoric, not strategy, and helps no one

Trump and Lindsey Graham
Washington Politics

Does MAGA want Trump to ‘make regime change great again’?

The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up


Trump designates 3 branches of Muslim Brotherhood as terror groups
QiOSK

Trump designates 3 branches of Muslim Brotherhood as terror groups

The move will send shockwaves across the Middle East, where the organization has deep roots

Iran protests
Middle East

Iran regime is brittle, but don't count out killer instinct to survive

Every violent protest — of which there have been several over the last decade — takes a little more away from the government's legitimacy

Trump Iran
QiOSK

As Tehran cracks down, Trump’s likely instincts are to stay out

The president is already walking back 'lock and loaded' promises to intervene in protests across the country

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Middle East

Is the Saudi-UAE rivalry heading for more violence?

The Emiratis' desire to crush Islamists and dominate geopolitically at all costs, particularly in Yemen and Sudan, is clashing with old friends in Riyadh