Jun 27, 2022
More has to be done to insure the rapprochement is truly heading toward a permanent re-bridging of relationships and not simply a half-baked diplomatic ballet.
Jun 13, 2022
Iran, despite the JCPOA’s gift of $150 billion (as of 2015), and despite U.S. pressures, has not only maintained but has expanded its strategic programs, expanded its militias, and increased its military alliances worldwide.
May 16, 2022
Iran is winning for now, and will continue to do so until America finds a better alternative to funding Iran’s rulers’ policies.
May 3, 2022
On the global stage, we can clearly see that the Eurasian continent (Asia plus Russia) is drifting away from American influence, and the U.S. is now facing five major strategic challenges in that part of the world.
Jul 28, 2014
By now, all Christians living in the second largest city of Iraq, Mosul, have been removed, their belongings stolen, their houses seized, their churches burned or transformed into Mosques by an army brandishing black flags with Koranic inscriptions on them.
Jun 16, 2014
In his remarks about the invasion of Mosul, Tikrit , and most of the Sunni triangle of Iraq , by the “Islamic State of Iraq and Shaam” (ISIS or Daesh), President Obama defined his administration’s policies toward the ongoing descent of Mesopotamia into full-fledged civil war.
May 8, 2014
It has already been established, including in my recently published book, "The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid," that Washington has undertaken a global mistake with the deal struck between the Obama administration and the Iranian regime …
Apr 22, 2014
As I have argued over decades in books and articles, Tehran’s regime possesses a much larger nuclear strategy than the simple acquisition of mass destruction weapons.