Open Dialogue Research Journal
As the conflict in Iran intensifies, the United States has been exploring ways to leverage Kurdish militias and political groups, both in Iraq and Iran, to shape the outcome of the events. Recently, President Donald Trump contacted Kurdish leaders from both sides of the border to discuss the progress of […]
In late February 2026, a missile strike devastated the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, Hormozgan province. Around 165 pupils, mostly girls aged seven to twelve, along with teachers and staff, were killed. The school stood several hundred meters from an IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary […]
The recent joint attack by the United States and Israel on Iran marks a dramatic and dangerous escalation in the Middle East. According to security expert Roland Popp of the Military Academy at ETH Zurich, the assault was not a spontaneous response to an imminent nuclear threat but the culmination […]
From Iran’s perspective, they’re all complicit in the US’ massive first strike even if the role that US military infrastructure in their countries allegedly played was only indirect in the sense of providing radar or just logistical support, with this perception and its response thereto being totally predictable. Prior to […]
The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against Ukraine is, with its shattering of international law and its dismissiveness of the provisions of the United […]
Scott Ritter says that in about two weeks, Trump will seek a negotiated end to the war, and that Russia and China will urge Iran to agree to such a face-saving-for-Trump end of this war. Larry Johnson explains why the U.S. and Israel are heading for defeat in this war, […]
The Islamic Republic either survives the latest onslaught, Iran goes the Venezuelan route, or “Balkanization” begins. The joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran officially aims to demilitarize the country and overthrow its government. The conflict has only just begun, but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already been killed along with several high-ranking military […]
In a dramatic escalation of Middle East tensions, the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign against Iran on February 28, 2026, resulting in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering widespread retaliation across the region. The crisis – the most serious confrontation between […]
The joint U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran – officially titled “Operation Epic Fury” – marks one of the most consequential geopolitical ruptures of the 21st century. Within hours, hundreds of strikes hit Iranian territory. The residence of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reduced to rubble. Senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard […]
In the midst of February 2026, the Middle East teetered on the brink of a new war. The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, declared by President Donald Trump as “major combat operations,” culminated months of tense negotiations and military preparations. Trump, who has repeatedly emphasized that he does not […]
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