In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to...
Iran has defined itself in opposition to Israel, the United States, and the wider West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over the course of half a century of complex regional and global events, the clerical...
October 7 deeply impacted Egypt, however, Cairo has not appeared to excoriate Hamas for the attack, leaving questions about how this all transpired.
Iran sought to derail any Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, which October 7 did; as such, it exploited October 7 to change the regional order.
With Raisi and Amir-Abdollahian gone, Iran will fall back on the IRGC which controls much of the country behind the scenes.
Installing democracy in a society without a tradition of liberty is like handing car keys to an unlicensed driver
Right now things look good for Israel. But the Islamic Republic is playing the long game. And its advantages, alas, are many.
On December 27, an Israeli missile hit a home in the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, killing brothers Ali and Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim’s wife. Within hours, Al Manar, Hezbollah’s official media...
Despite years of favorable Israeli foreign policy, both Beijing and Moscow are now openly hostile to Israel.
I spent the first days of the war on the Gaza border, mostly near Kibbutz Zikim. On the fifth day, October 11, I went to the Gaza border city of Sderot and spent time in the community, speaking with locals...
But Washington shouldn’t pursue comprehensive Middle East peace at the expense of localized wins
It might have had a chance to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions a few years ago, but the Middle East has changed.
Armed militias, wherever they operate, break existing systems, but like ruling regimes before them, typically fail to offer anything new or better.
In a newly released video, Abu Yasir al-Jaza’iri, a senior ideologue within al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), sends a message of encouragement to AQIM’s Sahelian wing, the Group for Support of...
The clerical regime in Tehran has held the streets. It remains to be seen, however, if the strategies employed to keep the ayatollahs afloat will prevail. When Mahsa Amini, a young Sunni Kurdish-Iranian girl, died on September 16 in the custody of the morality police, nationwide demonstrations erupted, often with young women and girls on the frontlines.
The longer we refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Iran deal, the greater a price we pay
America Should Lend Them a Hand
The country has a rich history of political dissent that has brought it to the edge of revolution.
Jordan and the Abraham Accords