These three papers lay out exactly how to use this window—to support the resistance, accelerate the succession crisis, and reopen Hormuz—before it shuts.
As the joint U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran enters its third week, the Middle East Forum (MEF) today released three major policy papers by executive director Gregg Roman constituting a coordinated strategic framework for the coalition’s next phase.
The trilogy—”The Longest Way Home,” “The Shortest Way Through,” and “Breaking the Gate”—addresses the three defining challenges now facing Washington and Jerusalem: how to translate air-campaign success into political transformation, how to operationalize Iran’s popular resistance movement, and how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without a ground invasion.
Sixteen days into the campaign, Iran’s missile arsenal has been destroyed, its nuclear infrastructure set back a decade, its navy sunk, and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed.