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Rashid Al-Mohanadi

Rashid Al-Mohanadi

Al Jazeera

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Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging

Six months into the war with Iran, it is worth taking stock of what has actually changed around the Gulf. After Iran’s June 2025 missile strike on...

29.08.2026 100

Al Jazeera

Rashid Al-Mohanadi

Misread as passive, the Gulf is quietly ending fifty years of dependence

Peace has been announced in the Gulf more often than it has been kept. A ceasefire arrived within weeks of the first Iranian strikes on Gulf territory...

04.08.2026 100

Al Jazeera

Rashid Al-Mohanadi

Iran does not need to close the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt it

The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question....

20.03.2026 100

Al Jazeera

Rashid al-mohanadi