Iran Democracy Monitor No. 239
A Rising Cost of Living...;
...And a Growing Energy Crisis;
Tehran's Ties to October 7th;
Iran's Illicit Iraqi Fuel Scheme;
Tehran Loses Ground in Syria
A Rising Cost of Living...;
...And a Growing Energy Crisis;
Tehran's Ties to October 7th;
Iran's Illicit Iraqi Fuel Scheme;
Tehran Loses Ground in Syria
Assad gets asylum in Moscow...;
...as Moscow scrambles to preserve its Syrian presence;
Prisoners to the (war) front;
NATO mobilizes versus Russia;
Nazi sentiment makes a comeback;
Kadyrov's clout grows
Germany: a target of Russian hybrid war;
How AJ+ is manipulating the Mideast narrative;
AI turbo-charges Russian disinfo...;
...As Brussels gets more serious;
Overreach in El Salvador?
Cairo's kindler, gentler textbooks;
Hezbollah lives to fight another day;
ISKP takes a dim view of Hamas
Kremlin worries over domestic unrest
Still more foreign fodder for Russia's war;
A delayed economic reckoning...;
...As Putin doubles down