Fawaz Gerges

American academic

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The Houthis are determined to fight to the end,
The Houthi capture of strategic islands near Bab el-Mandeb is a game changer,
Iran is willing to go all the way,
Iran is willing to go all the way. Now (Tehran) is escalating both near and wide. The message is that not only Hormuz, but Bab al-Mandab, is at risk.”
There is no ceasefire between the United States and Iran,... Iran has zero trust in the Trump administration, so they are making the U.S. fulfill its obligations step by step. This tells me we are living in a new era where the ceasefire no longer really means what it used to.”
There is a relative consensus worldwide, even in the United States, that Iran has won the war and President Trump lost this war,

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