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John Teichert

Brig Gen John Teichert (U.S. Air Force, ret.) recently retired as the assistant deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs.

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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2019 file photo, an Iranian clergyman looks at domestically built surface to surface missiles displayed by the Revolutionary Guard in a military show marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran. On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Trump administration designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” in an unprecedented move against a national armed force. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps went from being a domestic security force with origins in the 1979 Islamic Revolution to a transnational fighting force. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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November 7, 2026

A Path to Success Against Iran

The Trump Administration has settled into an economic strategy of containment and isolation against the Islamic Republic of Iran by utilizing a robust...

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