Will the IRGC give up and will Islamic regime collapse?
Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982 to 2010. He studied at a university in Iran during the early and mid-stages of the Islamic Revolution. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
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IRAN WAR: How Tehran Reads Trump
IDSF - Israel's Defense and Security Forum Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982 to 2010. He studied at a university in Iran during the early and mid-stages of the Islamic Revolution. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. In this special briefing from the Is
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Are The Kurds The Key To Toppling Tehran?
Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982 to 2010. He studied at a university in Iran during the early and mid-stages of the Islamic Revolution. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs . A hidden force could decide the future of Iran and most people barely understand who th
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The 1,400-Year-Old Sunni-Shia Islamic Religious Split Is Shaping the Iran War
Iranians call Sunnis dogs. They don’t mean it as a compliment. Ira Stroll March 4,2026 Mohammed bin Salman (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) and Iranian mourners (Getty Images) Iranian Shiites have a saying, " Sag Sunni. " It means Sunni Muslims are dogs. The Iranians don’t mean it as a compliment. The framing of the recent military action in the Middle East so far has been the U.S. and Israel against Iran. Yet President Trump pointed out during a White House appearanc
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The before and after in ‘negotiating’ with Iran.
Leaders of the Islamic Republic do not think or talk like Western nations; to believe that they do is a recipe for disasters, as history recounts. Harold Rhode served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982 to 2010. He studied at a university in Iran during the early and mid-stages of the Islamic Revolution. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York, as well as a Senior Fellow
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