Invaluable work done here by the معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا -- building the Syrian Memory database, which will contain:

- 900,000 videos
- 50,000 documents
- Profiles on 10,000 civilian/military/governing entities
- Profiles on 6,000 individuals
- 2,500hrs of oral testimony

Launches May 6.

Tomorrow we are hosting a book launch event for the newly released Oxford Handbook of Space Security. I, along with several other contributors, will be providing overviews of our chapters. Registration details below:
eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-…

Huge congrats to Ersin for being the first to ID the general location of the new space launch center Iran is building near Chabahar. The image presented of the hangar (or check out building) is at the location they labeled as #2 (1/3)

OUT NOW | 'It was amid this somber mood, air raid sirens, and Russian missile strikes that the 16th Kyiv Security Forum took place in late March.'

Read the excellent piece from our Fellow Mariana Budjeryn on the highlights and key messages from the Forum. ⤵️
bit.ly/4aZn8XU

Yours truly on the importance of Persian language open source materials: 'Deep Bonds: Former IRGC Chief on Slain Quds Force Field Commander for Syria and Lebanon'AGSIW #IranMediaReview . tinyurl.com/8jk56ydr

IAEA chief Grossi to visit Iran May 6-8, Mehr says reuters.com/business/energ…

🚨 My latest out now in The Nonproliferation Review (NPR) 🚨 'Messaging and the bomb: public attitudes toward nuclear proliferation'

I analyze results from an original survey of US public opinion on AUKUS nuclear-powered subs and the Iran Deal (1/n)

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi will visit Iran and attend the International Conference on Nuclear Science in Isfahan on May 7 and 8, Iranian media now report. Grossi will meet Iranian officials in Tehran before the conference. I hear he submitted a request to meet Raisi.

Confirms my hearings as well.

🚨🚨 What does Iran's attack against Israel say about the strengths and limitations of drones as a military weapon and a tool of statecraft? Check out my take in Modern War Institute mwi.westpoint.edu/what-irans-dro…

Pleased to see the Russian Federation state that its commitment to the #CTBT and its nuclear test moratorium remains unchanged.
mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol…

🎥 تماشا کنید: زمزمه‌های مذاکره ایران و آمریکا

🔹گفته می‌شود به‌زودی مذاکرات تهران-واشنگتن آغاز می‌شود

Would wait for more sourcing on this before jumping to any conclusions: media is reporting Israel has assassinated an IRGC officer inside #Iran .

Would be very strange for Israel to publicly acknowledge this kind of thing. jpost.com/breaking-news/…

Huge release by PIR Center and МГИМО- Yearbook on international security: pircenter.org/en/projects/se…

Lots of stuff by lots of Russia's scholars and experts. Not really academic, but still interesting.

The U.S. supplemental has passed and aid is on the way to Ukrainian frontlines. But months of delay for ammo and manpower have come at a cost. Problems cannot easily be undone, especially in Donetsk. A brief thread on what Russian decisions say about their summer plans. 🧵

The 12GUMO TG channel t.me/mil_12/ is quite active, but some units are silent - Morozovsk, Novorossiysk, Gorny, Soltsy, Shatalovo, all RVSN units (see locations at russianforces.org/blog/2017/08/w…). Kaliningrad and Gatchina are barely there. Ofc, maybe their PR units are lazy

Expect some news on the Rafael MarianoGrossi Tehran trip this week.

MODAFL has a telegram channel now t.me/defa_lr

Still one of the visual and philological highlights of our #OpenAccess collection on #MENAdoc : the 'Turkmen Tales', illustrated in color and in a modified Arabic alphabet from 1926:
dx.doi.org/10.25673/32848
Turkmen Mythology and Art in the Service of the Soviet Class Struggle