Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ali Khamenei, is now Iran’s supreme leader, appointed mid-war, after a contested succession backed by the IRGC. Here is what his background reveals about what comes next.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil crossed $100 per barrel this week for the first time since 2022. The oil price shock from the Iran war is cascading through global supply chains, central bank calculations, and geopolitical alignments simultaneously.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOne week into the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, Europe insists it is not a party to the conflict. Alliance structures, energy exposure, and Iranian warnings suggest the distinction is harder to hold than it looks.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe IRGC was created to serve the revolution, not the nation. Four decades later, it has become a state within a state , economically powerful, ideologically entrenched, and the central target in the current military conflict.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisPakistan spent weeks warming up to Trump. Then the US-Israeli campaign against Iran began. Now Islamabad faces a dilemma it did not choose, with no clean option in sight.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisWestern governments don’t apply consistent humanitarian standards across conflicts. This isn’t a bug in the system. It’s the system doing what it was designed to do.
Geopolitics & Conflict OpinionTwo armies are harder to beat than one. The logic of military alliances is simple, but the practice is messy. Trust, burden-sharing, and the risk of entanglement have shaped collective defense from the ancient world to NATO.
Evergreen Geopolitics & ConflictLebanon ordered Hezbollah to disarm after rockets broke a 15-month ceasefire with Israel, triggering airstrikes that killed at least 31 people. It is the government’s most assertive move against the group in decades.
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