A war launched to dismantle Iran's nuclear program has paused with Iran's enriched uranium stockpile intact and the Strait of Hormuz unresolved. Dr. Sina Azodi assesses the Islamabad MOU: why any final deal will structurally resemble the JCPOA, why Iran's security-minded new leadership has stronger incentives to pursue the bomb than before, and why Iran emerges from the war more confident than before.

In a new Wikistrat report, seven leading Iran experts assess Tehran's new doctrine of fusing Lebanon and Iran into a single battlespace, the Trump-Netanyahu gap test, the escalation ladder, and the 48-hour indicators that will define the rest of the year

Six weeks after his elevation, Iran's new Supreme Leader has still not been seen or heard. So who is making the decisions? Wikistrat surveyed eleven senior Iran specialists on Tehran's ruling core, the rise of the IRGC under Vahidi, and where the Islamabad talks can realistically land.

Wikistrat surveyed eight leading Gulf security experts on how Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will respond to the US-Iran deal taking shape. The panel converged on Hormuz as the defining red line and on a three-year regional arms race if missile limits are excluded, and split sharply on whether Riyadh goes nuclear.