In this article, Ambassador (retd.) Prabhat Prakash Shukla examines the evolving Iran–Israel conflict through the intersecting lenses of nuclear diplomacy, regional geopolitics, and great-power competition, arguing that the current war must be understood as an extension of the October 2023 Hamas attack and Iran’s wider “ring of fire” strategy. Iranian flags hang next to a missile on display during the forty-seventh anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2026....

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