Published July 22, 2024 by Palmer Coates, a detailed argument that Iran was fully involved with the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, an act of geopolitical arson motivated by the vulnerability of the clerical regime in Tehran and the fear that Israel’s normalization with Arab neighbors, above all Saudi Arabia, could cause footsoldiers sustaining the system led by an elderly, unpopular Supreme Leader to reconsider their commitment to an increasingly futile and unproductive enterprise.
TWO IRANS, TWO POLICY DIRECTIONS, NO STRATEGY: a Contrarian View
