How Iran’s Regime Stays In Control
Permanent internet blackouts, child mobilization, and foreign militias have emerged as new features of the Islamic Republic’s crisis governance.
Permanent internet blackouts, child mobilization, and foreign militias have emerged as new features of the Islamic Republic’s crisis governance.
The catastrophic flooding in Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan has exposed the limits of Russian state capacity on its southern periphery at a moment when Moscow's grip on the wider Caucasus is already loosening.
Putin chokes off the internet;
The dismal state of the federation;
Russia pushes population displacement in occupied Mariupol;
More crackdowns on rights groups;
Putin reshuffles Russian soft power
Recent weeks have made clear that the alliance doesn’t just have a Turkey problem. It has a Spanish one as well, and the latter is likely to emerge as a real headache for U.S.-NATO relations when the dust from the current Iran conflict finally clears.
Iran's regime exploits its youth;
...And harnesses foreign fighters;
The IRGC's expanding European footprint