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📌 Opinion | Pakistan and the Search for an Iran–U.S. Off-Ramp

"Pakistan’s role is not to impose a settlement, but to ensure that when either side is prepared to step back from confrontation, a diplomatic channel and a workable framework remain available."

✍️ Arhama Siddiqa (@arhama_siddiqa)

https://t.co/x3ovK8kn2v #USA #Iran #Pakistan

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

📌Opinion | Trump’s Iran Dilemma: Neither War Nor Peace

"What is emerging, then, is not a stable post-war order but a fragile state of "neither war nor peace.""

✍️Emine Gözde Bayraktaroğlu (@egozdetoprak)

https://t.co/Hm8DowsBIp #Iran #USA #Trump

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Analysis | The Islamabad Memorandum
A Strategic Reassessment of Iran-U.S. Relations and Regional Security Architecture

➡️What does the Islamabad Memorandum mean for the future of Iran-U.S. relations?
➡️To what extent does Iran’s new leadership under Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei represent a departure from the strategic posture of his predecessor?
➡️How realistic is the prospect of achieving a “permanent termination of war on all fronts, including Lebanon,” given the position of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government?
➡️Are the economic commitments undertaken by the U.S. realistic and implementable?
➡️Would Iran be willing to accept nuclear restrictions that go beyond those agreed under the JCPOA?

✍️Dr. Hamzeh Safavi

👉https://t.co/f7UQuTD5hX

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Beyond the Bombing: Israel’s Search for a New Iran Strategy

"The fate of the Islamic Republic will be determined not by military superiority alone but by the outcome of this longer and more uncertain struggle. It is precisely there that Israel has now turned all of its attention."

✍️Oral Toğa (@OralToga)

https://t.co/21lAmNnoPu

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Why Tehran Wants More Than a Ceasefire

"Iran is not holding firm because it rejects diplomacy. It is doing so because, from Tehran’s perspective, retreat would not resolve the crisis –it would simply strip the Islamic Republic of the very instruments it considers essential to endure it."

✍️Dr. Rahim Farzam (@rfrzm7)

👉https://t.co/GrjiKQlvYG

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | The Nuclear Question in U.S.-Iran Talks

"With the outbreak of the war on February 28, the nuclear issue has been absorbed into a far broader bargaining environment in which longstanding disputes over sanctions, ballistic missiles, regional influence, and entrenched mutual distrust now intersect with a new set of geopolitical frictions generated by the war itself."

✍️Emine Gözde Toprak (@egozdetoprak)

👉https://t.co/xxOA2rdQdH #Iran #USA

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Iran’s New Strategy Against Kurdish Armed Groups

"Iran's ongoing strikes against armed Kurdish organizations are the field-level manifestation of a long-accumulating strategic transformation, rather than an immediate reaction."

✍️Dr. Çağatay Balcı (@CagatayBALCI__)

https://t.co/kwr5qZE5q9 #Iran

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

📌THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ITS IMPACT ON CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES AND TÜRKİYE

Moderator:
Prof. Yaşar Sarı (@SariYasar)
(Ibn Haldun University – Haydar Aliyev Center for Eurasian Studies)

🎙️Speakers:
▪️Assoc. Prof. Serhan Afacan (@serafcan)
(Director, Center for Iranian Studies – IRAM)
▪️Alouddin Komilov
(Policy Analyst, Center for Progressive Reforms – Uzbekistan; Visiting Research Fellow, George Washington University)
▪️Eldaniz Gusseinov (@Eldaniz_aktau)
(Non-Resident Research Fellow at HACE, Ibn Haldun University; Head of Research at Nightingale Int.)
▪️Dr. Rahim Farzam (@rfrzm7)
(Expert, Center for Iranian Studies – IRAM)

��� April 07, 2026 🕖 19:00

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[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | The Tactical Victory Trap: Is Israel Making the U.S. a Partner in its Strategic Failure on Iran?

"Israel's chronic problem is the gap between tactical victory and strategic success."

Oral Toğa (@OralToga)

https://t.co/nODkhXUfho #Iran #Israel

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Perspective | Iranian Society in January 2026: What Do the Protests Tell Us?

➡️ Why did the latest protests start in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar that seen as a traditionally regime-aligned?

➡️ What’s changed that so many Iranians are focused on survival, not a decent life?

➡️ What are the fallout and risks when both society and the state are stuck in paralysis with no clear way out?

➡️ With the system struggling to address basic problems, is real reform still possible?

✍️ Tohid Alizadeh

👉https://t.co/Quwf1pD6H4

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

📑Report | IRAN AT A CROSSROADS
From Confrontation to Strategic Reassessment

🔻Why Is Iran at a Crossroads?

🔻How Is the Iran–Israel Conflict Shaping Iran’s Internal Debates?

🔻Why Did the 12-Day Conflict Not Lead to an Ethnic Uprising in Iran?

🔻Will Iran’s Nuclear Policy Shift After the Israeli and U.S. Attacks?

🔻How Durable Is the Iran–Israel Ceasefire?

👉https://t.co/ZePt1E72Hd #Iran #Israel #USA #nuclear

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Riyadh and Tehran in Dialogue: What Larijani’s Visit Reveals

"While limited and transactional cooperation mechanisms may emerge between Tehran and Riyadh, a deeper and more enduring strategic alignment between the two countries remains improbable in the near term."

✍️Dr. Rahim Farzam (@rfrzm7)

👉https://t.co/jNmK3oZicq

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | The Zangezur Corridor and Iran’s Strategic Calculus: Who Says What Inside Iran?

"For Tehran, the Zangezur Corridor thus represents less a binary choice between obstruction and acquiescence than a test of its ability to align strategic red lines with policy innovation."

✍️Oral Toğa (@OralToga)

👉https://t.co/g2Mr8Ptj0K

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Ideology over insight: How strategic blindness left Iran exposed

"Israel’s air strikes revealed more than military weakness; they exposed a systemic failure in Iran’s ability to think strategically in an interconnected world."

✍️ Oral Toğa (@OralToga)

👉https://t.co/uFVKXSnr2S #Iran

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Israel Is Pushing for Regime Change in Iran—But Can It Succeed?

"Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's tactics are unlikely to produce a movement strong and organized enough to bring about regime change in Iran under the current circumstances."

✍️ Dr. Çağatay Balcı (@CagatayBALCI__)

https://t.co/xSIS5hI8Ff

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Opinion | Iran’s Suspension of IAEA Cooperation is a Political Gamble, not a Technical Decision

"Iran’s decision to suspend cooperation with the IAEA represents a high-stakes gambit – an attempt to enhance deterrence without formally exiting the NPT."

✍️Dr. Rahim Farzam (@rfrzm7)

https://t.co/1qsqwclwLW #Iran #iaea

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Iran's big confusion: Deadlock between concessions and threats to the regime

"Trump's threats to Iran leave Tehran grappling with a tough choice between negotiations and security amid a lack of consensus."

✍️Dr. Çağatay Balcı (@CagatayBALCI__)

https://t.co/wU4uOe4R8h

[İran Araştırmaları Merkezi - İRAM @iramcenter]

Military Operation Is Not the Solution to Iran’s Nuclear Crisis

"The geographic distance between Israel and Iran, the dispersed nature of Iranian nuclear sites, and the operational constraints of the Israeli Air Force significantly limit the feasibility and effectiveness of military action in achieving its ultimate objective."

✍️ Emine Gözde Toprak (@egozdetoprak)

https://t.co/PiekXQsowX

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[Report]🗓️ August 2024

Intelligence Vulnerabilities of Iran and the Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh

@OralToga ✍️

👉https://t.co/YJRSWJyrzv #Iran #Israel #Haniyeh

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Opinion | ✍️@egozdetoprak

Europe’s Reaction to Haniyeh’s Assassination

European leaders and officials have been notably cautious in their public statements and refrained from condemning the act.

https://t.co/6GHLPPFcWf