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      <title>Yerevan’s Israeli gambit: Hedging between Tehran and Washington</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan made an underreported but significant visit to Israel in November.]]></description>
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      <title>After losing face abroad, Iran turns on its people and neighbors</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The goal of a domestic crackdown following airstrikes on its nuclear facilities is not only to catch Israeli spies, but to show its population that the mullahs are still in control.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Palestinian cause will not end Saudi-Israeli normalization</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For moderate Arab autocracies, the Palestinian issue has been the most effective radicalizing and mobilizing cause throughout the Arab world.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Keep France away from the Middle East peace process</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t mind being on Iran’s side when he believes it benefits his own country.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>France and Iran find common ground in the Middle East</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[France has been content to ignore the hazards of its decisions in a haughty and neocolonialist pursuit of influence.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why are we giving Iran $16 billion?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Biden administration is skirting U.S. law while financially empowering a brutal, duplicitous regime.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:48:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>We must prepare for a nuclear Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What many proponents of an agreement have repeatedly failed to recognize is that the regime has been dead set on having a nuclear arsenal, no matter the cost.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:10:55 GMT</pubDate>
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