Erfan Fard
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Iran
September 14, 2026
America Is Winning Against Iran. Now It Needs a Strategy for What Comes Next.
Washington has demonstrated that the Islamic Republic can be weakened militarily, constrained economically, and denied its traditional tools of...
Erfan Fard • RealClearDefense
Iran
July 17, 2026
The Fatwa Against Trump and Netanyahu
The Fatwa Against Trump and Netanyahu Will Not Delay the Fall of Tehran While the Tehran regime continued its now-familiar theater of "negotiations"...
Erfan Fard • RealClearDefense
Iran
June 27, 2026
The National Security Challenge Beyond Iran's Nuclear Program
For nearly five decades, Tehran has treated diplomacy as a tactical instrument while building a global architecture of terrorism, proxy warfare, and...
Erfan Fard • RealClearDefense
Iran
May 22, 2026
Surrounded but Dangerous: The Islamic Republic's Desperate Fight for Survival
How Tehran’s Reliance on Terror Proxies, Geopolitical Extortion, Internal Repression, and Dependence on China and Russia Reveals a Regime in...
Erfan Fard • RealClearDefense
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