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Assal Rad is a scholar of modern Middle Eastern history and a non-resident fellow at DAWN. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran.
The "Gaza model" in Lebanon is a List of Israeli War Crimes. The Media is Still Whitewashing Them.
On March 2, 2026, just days after the United States and Israel launched another illegal war on Iran and assassinated Iranian officials, including supreme leader Ali Khamenei, CNN ran a