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Albert B. Wolf
Global Fellow, Habib University
Bio
Albert B. Wolf is a Global Fellow at Habib University. His work has been published in Foreign Policy and The Washington Post.
The Trump administration says it will redirect $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets to compensate Gulf states for war damage—but the legal authority to do it does not exist, and the assets it's counting on sit beyond Washington's reach.
When Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia in September, it likely did not expect a U.S.-Israel war against Iran to test it so soon. Now Islamabad’s credibility could be on the line.