Don’t Call Obama’s Iran Diplomacy ‘Reaganesque’
Brent Scowcroft’s Aug. 23 op-ed, “An...
Mikhail Gorbachev
The ‘Grand Bargain’ Is A Gift To Iran
Lee Smith has it right: The long “grand bargain” tha...
Op-eds
Iran’s Greatest Vulnerability
Iran is on the march all over the world, from Syria and Iraq to Venezuela and Cuba (where they have a Hezbollah base). Except when they unceremoniously retreat, as in recent days when their floti...
Op-eds
The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change
All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere. It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...
Op-eds
Iran Nuclear Talks: The Narcissism of Minor Differences Between the EU and US
With the negotiation process to end Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program about to enter the final stretch, nuanced differences still exist among the Western powers toward Tehran....
Op-eds
When America’s Enemies Are Also Its Friends
President Obama’s May 28 commencement address at...
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Dare We Say It? The Mullahs Must Go
Sanctions and diplomacy have thus far failed to induce the Iranian regime to cease its nuclear weapons program. We shouldn’t be surprised by this. Top Iranian leaders, from Supreme Leader A...
Op-eds
It’s War, You Idiots
It’s hard to get our minds around the dimensions of the slaughter underway in the Middle East and Africa, and harder still to see that the battlefields of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, S...
Op-eds
Iran’s New President a Reformist? Hardly.
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Say what you wish about Iran’s newly elected president’s supposedly moderate credentials. There is little doubt that Hassan R...
Op-eds
The Tiananmen Reckoning
It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s...
Op-eds
Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel — and Gaza
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has done nothing to cripple the Jewish state’s economy. But it has scored a few big symbolic victories. This week, it...
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Gay—or Left?
On July 19, 2005, authorities in the Iranian city of Mashhad publicly lynched two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, for the alleged crime of raping a 13-year-old boy. Horrific pictures...
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Russia, Wannabe Superpower
Will Putin’s ban on adoptions finally help U.S. officials grasp the nature of Russia’s political leadership?
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Cold War Christmas Messages We Must Not Forget
Too often these days, the Cold War is treated as ancient history — as something from a simpler age of the world. It ended years before the advent of the high-speed Internet, Google and Face...
Op-eds
Dictators and Double Standards
As we watch the Syrian dictator struggle to survive, and the Egyptian would-be dictator run from an angry mob, and as we think back to the many fallen dictators of the recent past – Gorbach...
Op-eds
Ahmadinejad Shows His Soft Side in UN Speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...
Op-eds
What Condi Says About Romney
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
Op-eds
The Long Rough Awakening of Russia
Twenty years ago this Christmas day, Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech announcing “I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.&rdqu...
Op-eds
Why Tyrants Fall
What spells the doom of dictators? Nobody really knows, and there are so many “whats” that the whole subject defies quantification. Coups and assassinations, revolutions,...
Op-eds
Khamenei Must Go (and Take Ahmadinejad too, Please)
According to several recent reports, the Obama administration is now considering more forceful action against Iran in Iraq. This is as understandable as it was inevitable; as I wrote...