American Center for Levant Studies

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🔥Two questions we asked Admiral Roughead directly:

Did the U.S. misjudge Iran or enter the war unprepared?
And what does Iran’s missile behavior actually reveal about its capabilities?

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Read the full Early Phoenix briefing here:
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From Hormuz to Beirut to Baghdad, the post-MoU landscape is already under pressure.

Today’s Early Phoenix covers U.S.-Iran deconfliction talks in Doha, Lebanon’s competing power tracks, Israel’s security-zone operations, and Iraq’s broad corruption raids.

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There are conflicting strategic aims within Iran.

The IRGC is willing to absorb economic pain to keep Hezbollah alive, preserving a key tool for projecting power across the Arab.

Meanwhile, Pezeshkian would like to trade Hezbollah for sanctions relief, @joel_rayburn explains.

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Iran is trying to increase domestic pressure on the Trump administration by conveying that it can sustain economic pain longer than the global economy and the United States.

But "there's only so long that Tehran can live on air," @joel_rayburn counters.

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A recording of the exact moments when the four shots were fired.

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Founder of ACLS speaks on #IranWar‌

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"What the blockade has exposed is that the Iranian regime didn't really have the military ability to enforce the closure of the Strait of Hormuz themselves. They were bluffing."

@joel_rayburn explains how the US blockade flipped the script and why Tehran is losing leverage.

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