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📰 “He approaches diplomacy with a businessman’s mindset, seeking to get the job done through personal relationships with key counterparts, transcending ideological divides & avoiding becoming bogged down by red lines," — @rmslim to @alhurranews
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🚨NEXT WEEK — @StimsonMEP will host @AkbarSAhmed for a discussion about "Crossing the Red Line" & the Biden administration's role in the war in #Gaza. Moderated by @rmslim & with James Siebens.
🕐 10/27, 12:00PM
📍Stimson Center & online
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📣Last night, Nonresident Fellow @farianasruddin spoke on a panel about the AI's impact on women's workforce participation in the GCC. She highlighted initiatives that are mitigating gender bias in datasets & upskilling workers while urging for more research.
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Why has #Saudi military superiority not defeated the Houthis?
Kristian Alexander says the Houthis have combined low-cost weapons, Iranian technical help, a resilient domestic base & a divided adversary to create leverage.
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✍️Why does the #Houthi capture of the port of Mocha matter far beyond #Yemen? @YemeniFatima breaks it down in her latest analysis for Middle East Perspectives.
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"While the #Houthis cannot defeat #Saudi Arabia, they can [make] every response by their adversaries more expensive than the last, until restraint and a bad deal start to look cheaper than continued defense." #Yemen
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Middle East Program - Stimson Center retweeted
As I wrote last month for @StimsonMEP on the fall of Mocha, the Houthis just need to make defense so costly that a bad deal starts to look cheap. Escalation is how they do this, and Saudi Arabia knows it well, which is why it's pushing against their extortion. The miscalculation Riyadh made was believing that the U.S. would promptly step in.
.@washingtonpost on how Saudi Arabia is confronting mounting costs of the US war on Iran w/my comments:
“The Saudis are willing to take short-term pain to address a long-term threat. But this puts the entire [economic] project on hold. It’s a dilemma.”
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🚨IN TWO WEEKS 🚨
@StimsonMEP will host @AkbarSAhmed for a discussion about his latest book revealing how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza.
Join us in person on Oct 27, 12:00PM.
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Middle East Program - Stimson Center retweeted
🚨UPCOMING EVENT - The @StimsonCenter's Middle East Program will host @AkbarSAhmed for a discussion about his latest book revealing how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza.
Join us in person or online on Oct 27, 12:00PM.
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✍️@frencio_schiavi analyzes how the Iran War has incentivized #drone production in the #GCC, arguing that #US firms are meeting the demand for drones by producing or co-producing them in the #Gulf rather than exporting finished systems.
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Middle East Program - Stimson Center retweeted
💬 @StimsonMEP will host @AkbarSAhmed to discuss his findings on the Biden's administration role in the war in Gaza in "Crossing the Red Line" on 10/27 at 12:00PM ET.
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🚨UPCOMING EVENT - The @StimsonCenter's Middle East Program will host @AkbarSAhmed for a discussion about his latest book revealing how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza.
Join us in person or online on Oct 27, 12:00PM.
Register ➡️ stimson.org/event/inside-the…
✍️@J_Heirannia asks why #Iran-Backed #Iraqi armed groups are hedging on disarmament in the latest analysis for Middle East Perspectives.
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✍️Why does the #Houthi capture of the port of Mocha matter far beyond #Yemen? @YemeniFatima breaks it down in her latest analysis for Middle East Perspectives.
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Those who know the history of U.S. #Iran relations will remember opportunities for changing the trajectory after #Sept11 @StimsonMEP What if the US Had Made Peace With Iran After 9/11? @tparsi @NegarMortazavi @ProfSAzodi @SinaToossi @mattduss @ezraklein stimson.org/2026/what-if-the…
Middle East Program - Stimson Center retweeted
excellent analysis Kristian Alexander @StimsonMEP Not a Suez moment for @CENTCOM but needs to be prudent reduction and reconfiguration of US basing in #GCC after #IranWar @GiorgioCafiero @lrozen @EricSchmittNYT @shashj @ShashiTharoor @gbrew24 stimson.org/2026/the-future-…
✍️Gulf-based analyst Kristian Alexander analyzes the future of US bases in the #Gulf, arguing that a posture couldphysically smaller and less visible but more survivable, credible, and influential than the concentrated network it replaces.
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📖 Read from Kaitlin Scott what the drawdown of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon from the Blue Line will mean for ongoing security in #Lebanon.
Full article on @StimsonCenter ⬇️
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On Wednesday, Putin & al-Sharaa held discussions, including on the fate of #Russia’s military bases in the #Syria.
📖Read what Russia's retreat in Syria will mean for Russia & the Middle East region from @emilavdaliani ⬇️
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