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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

There are no emergency campus encampments. No major boycotts. No organized campaigns or agencies to punish the warlords starving a desperate population.
As urgent warnings are issued for residents to stay indoors to avoid the poisonous air, the Iranian public is reminded that their rulers are the primary threat to their survival.
The choice of Iran’s next leader will determine the trajectory of regional security for decades to come.
To the post-woke Zionist, Israel is not a client state meant to project Western liberal sensibilities in the Levant. Rather, Israel is the frontline trench in a broader war against mutual enemies.
As history has demonstrated across the Middle East and North Africa, when a centralized ideological regime collapses, the vacuum is never filled by a committee of bureaucrats.
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.