The strategic genius of Iran’s supreme leader
By Ray Takeyh On the surface, there is not much that commends Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. An anti-Semite, ...
Month: March 2015
What Congress’s Iran letter signals about Obama’s diplomacy
By Michael Singh For all the controversy over the open letter to Iranian leaders, led by Sen. Tom Cotton, the ...
In the Supreme Leader we trust
By David Rothkopf And we have a winner! In a Congress full of partisan hacks, nitwits, and know-nothings, young Tom ...
The most overlooked line in Netanyahu’s address
By Robert Satloff Since Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed Congress, critics and advocates have debated everything from the metaphors ...
As Netanyahu addresses Congress, the Saudis play a more subtle game on Iran
By Bruce Riedel As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played center stage at the Congress to slam the Iran deal-in-the-making, ...
Italian firm says there’s no deal with Iran
Hardly a day passes without some media outlet in the Islamic Republic talking about European firms eagerly lining up and ...
New statistics on dead in Iran-Iraq war
The government has issued a new tabulation of war dead that differs only very modestly from the figures issued 14 ...
Minor goof is major plot
Some in the Islamic Republic have tried to make an international incident out of a simple transcription error last Wednesday. ...