Turkey, the Arab World is Just Not That into You
He runs around in a fake fire extinguisher’s outfit, holding a silly hose in his hands and knocking on neighbors’ doors to put out the fire in their homes. “Go away,” his neighbors keep telling him.
Wanted: A Counter-Iran Strategy
A common but mistaken reading of the current strategic situation in the Middle East presents the region as approaching the end of a period of instability. The “return of the Arab state” is one of the more arresting refrains that this perspective has produced.
Iran: An Interim Assessment
The protests in Iran appear, for now at least, to be subsiding. The key moment was the decision to task the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with security in the three provinces that formed the center of the unrest – Hamadan, Isfahan and Lorestan.
Curing Trump’s Quarterly Iran Headache
Trump is right that he’s damned if he maintains Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and damned if he kills the deal.
Netanyahu: Israel Stopped Airplane Terror Attacks in Europe
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of ambassadors from several of NATO countries that Israeli intelligence had prevented “several dozen major terrorist attacks” on European cities, including some 9-11 type plots that “involved civil aviation”.
Trump Kicks America’s Palestinian Habit
The US is UNRWA’s largest funder. In 2016, it transferred more than $368m. to UNRWA.
The Obama Riots
Obama bears the real responsibility for bringing Iranians out into the streets, but where is Iran heading?
Money Means Nothing
Gangster regimes such as Iran and N. Korea threaten the US by name with annihilation, with not so much as a whimper by America’s allies.
Sexual Harassment East and West
For a time, one could not open a newspaper or visit an online news site without finding yet another scandal about sexual harassment. Lawyers are presumably going to have a field day for years to come.
Iran Sends More to the Gallows
At the end of December 2017, something almost without precedent happened in cities across Iran. It started in the largest shrine city of Mashhad, then moved to Kermanshah, which had not long before suffered a major earthquake in which some 600 people died and where survivors had been neglected by the state.