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Sacred Ground, Secular War: Religion as the Unspoken Variable in the Iran-Israel-Gulf Conflict
Listen in as we go another route than most coverage of the Hormuz crisis and the Turkey-Pakistan-Saudi defence pact treats it as pure realpolitik. But Shia-Sunni dynamics, Iran's revolutionary-Islamic self-conception, and the religious legitimacy stakes for Gulf monarchies are doing real work underneath the "interests" language. That is what we will look at now.If you like this content please follow on Substack and Instagram.
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