International Herald Tribune

January 25, 2023 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Emelie Chace-Donahue, Colin P. Clarke

Understanding the US Designation of the Wagner Group as a Transnational Criminal Organisation

Last week US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the Treasury Department will designate the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organisation...

November 20, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Lebanon Loses a Pillar of Independent Journalism

The Daily Star’s demise is the story of Lebanon, reduced from promising country to failed state.

October 5, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Europe Has Billions of Reasons to Let Iran Cheat

Europe’s rapidly expanding economic relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran prompted Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to call for a unified trans-Atlantic approach to enforcement of the...

August 24, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Europe is Not Likely to Enforce Iran Deal

With the reopening of the UK’s embassy in Tehran on Sunday, a new wrench has been tossed into the nuclear deal approval process: Britain’s likely reluctance to enforce violations.&nbs...

October 28, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Israel and the War of Words

JERUSALEM – Last week, a terrorist drove his car into a crowd at a light rail station, killing a three-month-old baby. Eight others were injured, including a 22-year-old woman who died a fe...

May 13, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Radioactive Regime

The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...

March 23, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Sweden’s Israeli Flag Burning and its Flirt with the Iran-Syria Complex

The burning of an Israeli flag in the heart of Stockholm’s bustling downtown shopping district this week coincided neatly with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s efforts to placa...

January 12, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Can EU Oil Sanctions Create a Turning Point in Iran?

The significance of international sanctions on Iran took on new prominence this week, after a group of US senators sent a letter on Tuesday to Catherine Ashton, the EU's c...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Would a President McCain Have Invaded Iraq?

A doubter's analysis.

June 14, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Coal in Israel’s stocking

'Tis the season for blame-Israel-first stories.

April 14, 2011 |

Making Sense of France’s Burqa Ban

Berlin — France’s burqa ban became law on Monday, and the full-face veil worn by an estimated 2,000 women in France is now outlawed in public spaces. With this law, Pres. Nicolas Sark...

October 13, 2010 |

Why is Germany Playing Down Radical Islam?

On the cover of Monday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune, the headline was, “Germany is annoyed by U.S. terror alert.”The thrust of the report is that Germany has go...

September 24, 2010 | Benjamin Weinthal Jerusalem Post |

Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’

BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it...

September 8, 2010 |

Why is Merkel Protecting Iran’s Terror Bank?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad a...

August 19, 2010 | Jerusalem Post

Despite US Pressure, Merkel Unlikely to Close Iran Bank

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains unlikely to order the closure of the Hamburg-based Iranian bank (EIH), which has reportedly funneled over $1 billion into Iran's military and ball...

March 12, 2009 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

The Chinese Navy’s Somali Cruise

by Dr. Peter Pham Since the beginning of January, three vessels of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - the Guangzhou-class destroyer Wuhan...

December 11, 2008 | |

Iran’s Power At The United Nations

With Iran racing down the homestretch toward a nuclear bomb, the United Nations Security Council has spent more than two years expressing "serious concern." By now, Iran is under U.N. sanctions,...

June 27, 2007 | Clifford D. May |

Feckless in Gaza

Extremists link up with extremists." So said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week upon hearing that Ayman al-Zawahri, the top deputy to Osama bin Laden, had released a message enthusiast...

February 8, 2007 |

Intelligence Games

Well, we knew this was coming. he...

March 2, 2005 | Clifford D. May |

Blood Libel

Chirac Should Acknowledge that Israelis didn't Kill Mohammed al-Durra