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1 month ago | 
cnas.org | Rachel Ziemba |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord
This month, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to mediate a new nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran after reportedly being asked to by U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call in February. In a meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio allegedly followed up on the president’s request in speaking with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Trump has made clear he wants a new deal with Iran.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Marsin Alshamary |Hamzeh Hadad
The collapse of the Assad regime in neighboring Syria has significant political and security implications for Iraq. Of immediate concern is the security vacuum in Syria, which may create spillover effects across the border reminiscent of 2014, when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) established control over territory in both countries.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Hamzeh Hadad
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord |Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba joins Bloomberg Television to discuss oil rising for a third day as traders watch for supply risks in the Middle East.
Watch the full episode from Bloomberg Television. Commentary Foreign Affairs April 23, 2024 The Axis of Upheaval The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
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Oct 2, 2024 | cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord |Rachel Ziemba
Rachel Ziemba joins Bloomberg Television to discuss oil rising for a third day as traders watch for supply risks in the Middle East.
Watch the full episode from Bloomberg Television. Commentary Foreign Affairs April 23, 2024 The Axis of Upheaval The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Aveen Karim |Robert Tollast |Sinan Mahmoud
Hamzeh Hadad, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says that brief moment of unity defied many expert predictions that Iraq would permanently fragment. “Many - and at the time I thought it was exaggerated - were questioning the existence of the modern Iraqi state, and today not only is that state still there, it is stronger than it has ever been since 1980. “In 2014, people were questioning what the Iraqi state would look like; that is not a question in 2024.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Hamzeh Hadad |Jeremy Shapiro
19 June 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 , Berlin time (CEST, UTC+2) Online: Registration required, Register here Hamidreza Azizi, Consultant, MENA Programme, ECFR Ellie Geranmayeh, Deputy Director, MENA Programme, ECFR Hamzeh Hadad, Visiting Fellow, MENA Programme, ECFR Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director and Director, US Programme, ECFR Julien Barnes-Dacey, Director, MENA Programme, ECFR Since Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, the Middle East has experienced a dangerous cycle...
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May 2, 2024 | 
dawnmena.org | Hamzeh Hadad
Israel's war in Gaza is fueling more conflict across the Middle East, with Israel and Iran's long "shadow war" breaking out into the open and threatening a wider regional escalation.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Jonathan Lord |Arona Baigal
Part of Middle East Security Since April 2021, Washington and Tehran have attempted to renegotiate a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). At certain moments, a return to compliance with the deal has appeared imminent. At others, press has reported the JCPOA’s final demise. Neither has yet proven to be true, but however it ends, the resolution of the future of the Iran nuclear deal will have transformative impacts on Middle East policy decision-making worldwide.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Hamzeh Hadad |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Richard Fontaine
Since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Moscow has deployed more than 3,700 Iranian-designed drones. Russia now produces at least 330 on its own each month and is collaborating with Iran on plans to build a new drone factory inside Russia that will boost these numbers. North Korea has sent Russia ballistic missiles and more than 2.5 million rounds of ammunition, just as Ukrainian stockpiles have dwindled. China, for its part, has become Russia’s most important lifeline.
