<span class="vcard">Dalia Dassa Kaye</span>

Dalia Dassa Kaye

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Dalia Dassa Kaye (Bluesky) is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and author of Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy (Stanford University Press).

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Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
plume of heavy smoke and fire rise from an oil refinery in southern Tehran

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