Pushing back against Russia’s multipronged assault on the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which includes Putin and Erdogan’s coordinated pressure on an institution they see as posing a threat to their respective illiberal projects, requires devising and implementing a concerted transatlantic strategy.
The reeling regime in Beirut would like some of that magic Jewish money, please
After a year of political bickering among Lebanon’s sectarian chieftains, Hezbollah determined that the time had come for a new government to arise. By now, it should be clear to all observers that...
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems inclined to promote a candidate who will quash dissent over someone who could work with the West.
America did
On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
Late April Trends
How the Abraham Accords put the final nail in the coffin of a bad idea.
The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh demonstrates Israel’s capabilities and constrains Biden’s options.
The focus until now has been on when and where Israel strikes, and not what is being destroyed. But that is now changing.
In 2013, the regime of Bashar al-Assad received a report that opposition forces had captured and killed an employee of the defense ministry. That report was false. The man — a photographer from the...
It’s not every day that Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, borrows from the lexicon of international relations theory. Highlighting the Islamic Republic’s proliferation of conventional...
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
How much should America pay to maintain the fraying fabric?
Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.
Another member of Tehran’s “Axis of Resistance,” a constellation of pro-Iran proxies and partners, has been sanctioned by Washington. On Feb. 26, the U.S. Department of State designated Ahmad al-Hamidawi,...
No longer playing Iran's game