The Ideology Machine

The Ideology Machine

The War Outside the War

How the Iran ceasefire was shaped by U.S. domestic politics, Gulf pressure, and Tehran’s terms of survival.

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Fatima Abo Alasrar
Jun 16, 2026
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There is a kind of war that the United States has fought many times in the Middle East. It is entered with conviction, prosecuted with force, and abandoned without ever deciding what it was for. The …

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