
Iran's Disruptive Strategy 2026 | UPSC GS-2 | UPSCPDF
UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: Iran
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Tehran needs to recognise the limits of its current geopolitical advantage — decoding the Strait of Hormuz coercion, the Axis of Resistance, UNSC Resolution 2817 and India's careful balancing act in a volatile West Asia. Iran has intensified a disruptive geopolitical strategy — striking commercial tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to obstruct international navigation, and setting up a Persian Gulf Straits Authority to levy transit tolls. A strategic-affairs editorial argues that these moves may look like operational masterstrokes but could prove long-term strategic blunders that isolate Iran from the global mainstream. The context is the 2025–2026 U.S.–Israel–Iran war. Israeli and U.S. strikes on 28 February 2026 killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; his son Mojtaba Khamenei was elected the new Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts in March 2026, consolidating an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)–hardline cleric power structure. Amid the conflict, the
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