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Amine Ayoub

Amine Ayoub

Amine Ayoub, a fellow at the Middle East Forum, is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco. Follow him on X @amineayoub

The agency is unique in the history of global engagement not for its efficiency, but for its malice.
This policy goes beyond the original “maximum pressure” campaign and functions instead as an economic siege aimed directly at the regime’s ability to finance repression.
The world faces the single most dangerous scenario in modern-day history: a regime with no future, no exit strategy and a “loose nuke” capability.
For too long, American policy has been paralyzed by the fear that recognizing reality would cause instability. But the instability is already here.
For Jerusalem to sign a $35 billion economic bailout while its security demands regarding the border remain unmet is a failure of statecraft.
Its development is no longer an abstract debate, but a political actor operating through community institutions, universities, nonprofits and municipal governments.
The ultimate “deal” is not a symbolic treaty with terrorists; it is a robust and unified regional security architecture that makes Hamas irrelevant.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was an attack on the principles that bind free nations: faith, courage and the determination to speak the truth.