A Possible Escalation by Iran Sept. 28, 2026 Question: I’ve heard that the Iranian army is primarily a domestic security force. If the Turks decided they needed to liberate northwestern Iran to protect the Azeris and the Pakistanis sought to do the same for the Baloch peoples in the southeastern provinces, could they pull it […]
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