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Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel

Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, Saudi delegation, and Iranian delegation in Beijing, China, on March 10, 2023. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Commentary

China Brokers Diplomacy between Iran and Saudi Arabia: Implications for the US Role in the Middle East

(Screenshot via YouTube)

Podcast

How Intelligence Failures Helped Iran

Michael Pregent

Former Senior Fellow

Michael Pregent

Mar 22, 2023

Podcast

View from Mount Carmel of Haifa shipping port and city in northern Israel on October 12, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

US Can Counter China in the Middle East with Abraham Accords Free Trade

Robert Greenway

Former Adjunct Fellow

Robert Greenway

Mar 20, 2023

Commentary

5 Min Read

This rally in Melbourne was part of a coordinated, global series of rallies held to stand in solidarity with the Iranian people in their fight for human rights, as well as to condemn the chemical attacks on children at the hands of the Iranian dictatorship, which have gone unpunished.

Women protest in solidarity with the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 2023. (Matt Hrkac via Flickr)

Commentary

Gas Attacks Reveal a War on Iranian Women

Ahmad Hashemi

Former Research Fellow

Ahmad Hashemi

Mar 20, 2023

Commentary

7 Min Read

#Ukraine: In the first credible sighting of Iranian drones in use by Russian forces, here we see the remains of a HESA Shahed-136 loitering munition (or a design based on it), which is made in Iran. From the appearance, it seems it likely detonated.

A Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone allegedly shot down in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in September 2022. (@UAWeapons via Twitter)

Commentary

How to Curb the Threat of Iranian Drones

Ahmad Hashemi

Former Research Fellow

Ahmad Hashemi

Mar 17, 2023

Commentary

4 Min Read

A man in Tehran holds a local newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties signed in Beijing, on March 11, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Podcast

What Saudi Arabia’s Deal with Iran Means for Israel and America

Jonathan Schachter

Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Jonathan Schachter

Mar 17, 2023

Podcast

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman al-Saud makes a speech during the forty-third Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 9, 2022. (Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Commentary

China Surges Ahead in Middle East Diplomacy

Podcast

China Insider #14 | Iran-Saudi Deal Brokered by China, Americans’ Opinions of the CCP, and COVID-19 Origin Investigations

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Wilson Shirley

Former Media Fellow, China Center

Miles Yu & Wilson Shirley

Mar 14, 2023

Podcast

David Ben-Gurion. (Wikimedia Commons)

Commentary

Netanyahu’s Bid for a Role in Zionist History

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Mar 13, 2023

Commentary

1 Min Read

(Screenshot via CNN)

In the Media

Saudi Arabia and Iran End Years of Hostilities

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi on March 7, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office)

Commentary

From Moscow to Tehran: Putting the US Sanctions Review to the Test

Jonathan Schachter

Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Yair Albeck

Former Visiting Research Fellow

Jonathan Schachter & Yair Albeck

Mar 8, 2023

Commentary

4 Min Read

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaks as part of the forty-fourth anniversary events of the Iranian Revolution in Tehran, Iran on February 8, 2023. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Needy Lover