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In either case, my analysis is framed around Iran’s place in the Axis of Resistance, its military and strategic capability, its culture, US intelligence assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of war, the influence of Israel on US and NATO policy, and other considerations.

Paul Larudee is a former Ford Foundation project supervisor and Fulbright-Hays lecturer in Lebanon, and US government advisor to Saudi Arabia.  He has been on the faculty of San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco, St. Mary’s College in Moraga and Haigazian College in Beirut.  He was with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine and co-founded the movement to break the Israeli naval siege of Gaza.  He was aboard the boats that successfully entered Gaza in 2008 and the 2010 Flotilla attacked by Israel.  He was shot by an Israeli soldier in 2002.  He co-founded the Global March to Jerusalem, the Free Palestine Movement and the Syria Solidarity Movement.  He was one of six US observers of the Syrian presidential elections in June, 2014.  He is CFO of the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, a 501(c)(3) corporation that sponsors human rights and humanitarian aid projects in West Asia, Latin America and other regions. He publishes on Substack and Dissident Voice, and occasionally other publications.