Hamas–Israel War and the Evolution of Iran’s ‘Resistance Geopolitics’

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9. Amir Hossein Vazirian, ‘Iran’s unification of the arenas campaign against Israel: Foundations and prospects’, Middle East Institute, 26 September 2021 at https://www.mei.edu/publications/irans-unification-arenas-campaign-against-israel-foundations-and-prospects (Accessed 7 February 2024).

10. Hamidreza Azizi, ‘How Iran and its Allies hope to save Hamas’, War on the Rocks, 16 November 2023 at https://warontherocks.com/2023/11/how-iran-and-its-allies-hope-to-save-hamas/ (Accessed 5 February 2024).

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Deepika Saraswat

Dr Deepika Saraswat is Associate Fellow with the West Asia Centre at MP-IDSA, New Delhi.