U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

President Obama, listen to Netanyahu on Iran

It is extremely rare for any reasonable person to ever agree with anything Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says or does. However, one must admit, Bibi did get it right, at least when it came...
While Iran negotiates an agreement with the West on its nuclear program, it holds naval exercises near the Straits of Hormuz, sinking a mock-up of the USS Nimitz, an American aircraft carrier. (AFP Photo/Fars News/Hamed Jafarnejad)

A Bad Agreement with Iran Will Undermine Middle East Stability

The signing of an agreement that affords Iran a threshold capability to produce nuclear weapons will probably mean the continuation of Iran’s conquest of strategic locations in the Arab domain. Iran already holds sway...

The Struggle over the Iranian Nuclear Program

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It is incumbent on Israel to use all the diplomatic and political tools at its disposal to halt the signing of an accord with Iran that leaves Teheran with the capability to produce...
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Anatomy of a Bad Iran Deal: A Preliminary Assessment

The lead editorial of the Washington Post on February 5, 2015, expressed the growing concern in elite circles with the contours of the emerging nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Russia,...

The Mahdi is not coming to Hezbollah’s state

When Iran’s economy was thriving, Iran had only Hezbollah to nurture and spoil. Shiites in Lebanon were enjoying the benefits of the services and aid the Iranian money provided. In addition, the “Resistance” was...

The World War Inside Islam

In the aftermath of America’s invasion of Iraq, Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative polemicist and editor of Commentary, wrote a long essay arguing that the battle against Islamist extremism amounted to “World War IV.” Podhoretz...

Iran Becoming “A Very Successful Regional Power”

Last Friday, Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels dissolved Yemen’s parliament and set up a five-member presidential council to form a transitional government to govern Yemen for the next two years. The steps were taken to fill...

What the Murder of Alberto Nisman Tells Us About Iran

Two major events last week having nothing to do directly with American policy nevertheless served to highlight the folly of the Obama administration's approach to Iran. The first was the assassination of Argentinian special prosecutor...

The Rising Insurgency for Sanctions Against Iran

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” -Otto von Bismarck Bismarck’s statement is eerily familiar with the legislative process described below. Stay with me while I dive deeply into the...
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How Iran continues to deceive the West

Last week’s IAF strike on a Hezbollah convoy near Kuneitra on the Israel-Syria border in which six members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed has led to increased Iranian threats to...