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<title><![CDATA[Sanam Vakil - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/45013.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sanam Vakil]]></description><category domain="45013">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Ceasefire Is Welcome But Fragile]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/iran-crisis-ceasefire-friday-talks-islamabad-nuclear-programme</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sanam Vakil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ceasefire is welcome but fragile. Friday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s talks in Islamabad must address Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nuclear programme and avoid sidelining the rest of the region]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only the Middle East Can Fix the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/fix-middle-east-united-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sanam Vakil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The path to a post-American regional order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the United Arab Emirates Is Plotting Its Rise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-arab-emirates/medicis-middle-east</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sanam Vakil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the United Arab Emirates is plotting its rise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Crisis of Legitimacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/iran-crisis-legitimacy-mass-protests-ailing-leader</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sanam Vakil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early this month, the Iranian rumor mill cranked into overdrive amid reports that Iran's 83-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who survived prostate cancer surgery in 2014, was again gravely ill. On September 16, The New York Times reported that emergency bowel surgery had...]]></description>
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