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    The Fall of Kabul: Tehran’s Position and Regional Future

    Introduction The fall of the Afghan State and the way Iran deals with its data have created various assumptions and possibilities at the level of experts and followers in the Middle East, which is one of the countries with the largest transnational agendas associated with Iran, Fatimids (al-Fātimiyyūn).          Iran seems...

    Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections 2021: The Harsh Lessons

    The electoral race concluded with a large-scale boycott, and the surprises that occurred were evident among the specialists who know how to deal with society sensors, before their consultations in the closed rooms. The Iraqi parliamentary electoral competition resulted in several important factors, indicating profound transformations in Iraqi society, and...

    Eight Iraqi alliances have the chances of participating in the formation of the next government

    leaders and candidates from some alliances have claimed to gain 60 to 100 seats, this number of seats is not feasible under the new electoral law, which no longer allows large alliances to acquire as many seats as previously. While recognizing that traditional political forces will remain at the forefront...

    Iraqi women candidates in the 2021 Iraqi electoral parliamentary race… A potential loser and a weak competitor

    On 10 October this year, Iraq is expecting the fifth election in its democratic history, perhaps the most controversial since the 2018 elections, which was accompanied by many problems and with less than 44% participation (advertised). This ratio may be acceptable under a newly-established democratic system, a democratic experience...

    Al-Maraji’a and Elections. Will Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani change the course of the boycott?

    Since 2003, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani has sought to deepen the idea of free elections as an exercise in choosing the form of government and the process of circulating power in Iraq.          Months before the 2018 elections, the Office of the Supreme Maraji’a issued the statement: "Since the...

    Peace-building programs in Iraq

    The concept of peacebuilding is one of the most popular concepts in research centers, and most popular in countries that have emerged from tyranny and whose experience has stalled in the course of transitional justice. The identities of their social groups varied and most felt that their rights diminished,...

    Hidden costs of cybercrime

    Cybercrime seems unstoppable. Thousands of cybercrimes occur every year, costing from a few hundred dollars to millions. Companies and agencies. The risks of cybercrime continue to grow on the operations and profits of many enterprises, and the time spent dealing with a cyber accident can be long; therefore, need...

    Kurdistan and the consequences of the possible isolation by Biden’s administration

             In recent months, Iraqi Kurdistan, like other points in Iraq, has become a scene of the proxy conflicts between Tehran and Washington. Rocket strikes and explosive Drones attacks on Erbil’s airport and even downtown Erbil will have negative effects on the stability and political role of the region....

    The Afghan scene… Reading in motives and implications… and possible lessons

    For a Syrian or Iraqi spectator, what is happening in Afghanistan seems like a normal event, compared to what terrors they have seen, what terror they are living in, and there may be nothing left in this world to surprise them. But the situation is relatively different for the...

    Baghdad’s Regional Summit… Iraqi Lands and Issues of the Region

    A summit of Iraq's regional neighbors was held in Baghdad on Saturday, 2021/8/28, to discuss the region's unsolved issues and open up areas for cooperation, dialogue, and unity of efforts to resolve these pending problems in the region, in particular, the Syrian crisis and the Saudi-Iranian conflict. (Bahrain, Egypt,...