The Iran Delusion: A Primer for the Perplexed
The chattering class has spent months bickering about whether or not the United States should sign on to a nuclear deal with Iran, and everyone from the French and the Israelis to the Saudis...
The Iran agreement is done—now let’s move on
The agreement over Iran’s nuclear program marks the end of an era. It makes many of the criticisms of the accord, as well as much of the praise, irrelevant—because they look backward.
There’s nothing to...
The China-Iran Nuclear Pipeline
President Barack Obama has said that the final nuclear deal with Iran will“cut off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon.”U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has likewise said that...
Iranian Nuclear Deal Is a Win for Anti-Semitism
I suppose all hatred has an element of irrationality. Yet some hatreds are more irrational than others. For thousands of years, hatred of Jews has been unique.
Sometimes acts of hatred, such as confiscating Jewish...
Obama’s Iran Deal Has the Makings of a Catastrophe
Barack Obama has repeatedly signaled during the past six and a half years that that his No. 1 priority in foreign affairs is not China, not Russia, not Mexico, but Iran. He wants to...
The Four Horsemen of a Looming Apocalypse
They could all be confronted. But by the Obama administration?
The U.S. and its allies are faced with four major threats, and they are as diverse and yet as akin as the proverbial apocalyptic horsemen....
Obama’s Secret Iran Strategy
resident Barack Obama wishes the Islamic Republic of Iran every success. Its leaders, he explained in a recent interview, stand at a crossroads. They can choose to press ahead with their nuclear program, thereby...
Trusting Iran to stop terrorism is like inviting an arsonist to join the fire...
Iran remains one of the world's most prolific sponsors of terrorism. How can we expect it to stop once they have a nuclear deal?
Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has written an op-ed in the...
The Demons of the Farhud Pogrom are With Us Still
Salim Fattal was just eleven when the two-day Baghdad pogrom known as the Farhuderupted on Shavuot (Pentecost) 74 years ago, yet its memory is engraved deep in his soul. Despite the passage of time,...
Opinion: Morons and Traitors
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah recently slammed those criticizing him, saying: “Anyone who says anything contrary to what is said here is a moron, is blind, and a traitor. The Shi’ites of the American embassy...


















