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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Foreign intervention in the Middle East has been a recurring affair recently. If not through direct intervention, then through economic and political decisions that have been consequential for millio…

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