The Man And The Myth
Urbi et Orbi, the city and the world, Tehran and the globe. In his turban and clerical robe, softly speaking of peace, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, resembles a spiritual guide mor...
Mullah
Scare Tehran, Please
Is Barack Obama’s threat of preventive military action against the Iranian regime’s nuclear program credible? Would a one-year, six-month, or even three-month nuclear breakout capacit...
Op-eds
Arming the Mullahs
Somebody on Twitter posted an upbeat message saying the US delegation to the latest round of talks with Iranian officials was quite optimistic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a born op...
Op-eds
Shariah with a Jewish Face
Since 9/11, all Western societies have been wrestling with the problem of how to prevent the emergence of insular ethno-religious ghettos that breed poverty, religious extremism and regressive so...
Op-eds
Seeing Through the Sheep’s Clothing
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad In his address to the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu described Hassan Rouhani as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but you’d ha...
Op-eds
The Muddle East
If Congress refuses to support American military action against the Assad regime in Syria, and President Barack Obama declines to strike or strikes meekly, will American power—that marriage...
Op-eds
Will Obama Really Hold Assad Accountable?
Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that Ba...
Op-eds
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 &...
Op-eds
German Green Party Head High-Fives Iran’s Envoy
BERLIN – Claudia Roth, chairwoman of the large Green Party in Germany, is facing a storm of criticism from media outlets, Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel advocates because she greeted Ira...
Op-eds
Obama Must Deal with Egypt and Iran
President Obama has quite a problem with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. At the State Department briefing Thursday afternoon, deputy press secretary Mark Toner danced around repeated questions...
Op-eds
Senior Haqqani Network Leader Again Calls on Turks, Kurds to Wage Jihad in Afghanistan
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Haqqani Network leader who is on the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for supporting al Qaeda and who holds a captured a US soldier in Afgh...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda ‘Weapons Expert’ Killed in Eastern Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed an al Qaeda "weapons expert" during an operation in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika several days ago. The raid is the 19th that has be...
Op-eds
The Cost of Kofi
Kofi Annan resigned yesterday as the United Nations-Arab League Envoy to Syria after failing to bring an end to the internecine violence that has been raging in Syria since last spring....
Op-eds
Lebanon: ‘Anal Probes’ Used on 36 Detainees at Gay Cinema
Lebanese security authorities imposed a crackdown on a gay cinema in Beirut on Saturday and closed the movie house, arresting 36 male attendees and performing anal probes on them. The anti-gay ca...
Op-eds
Economic Suffocation for Iran’s Rulers
On Sunday — only days after Iran failed to offer concessions in negotiations over its nuclear program — the European Union imposed a ban...
Op-eds
Stuxnet and Iran’s Shadow War
David Sanger’s piece in the New York Times earlier this month (“...
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German Nobel Laureate Günter Grass Loves Iran’s Clerical Regime
While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his &ldquo...
Op-eds
Bibi, the Begin Doctrine, and the U.S.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech on Monday at the AIPAC conference reinforcing the Begin Doctrine — the preemptive-milit...
Op-eds
Canceling the Mullahs’ Credit Card
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, is a...
Op-eds
Iran’s Nuclear Surge Capacity
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s comments concerning Iran’s nuclear program have caused quite a stir. In an interview aired on Monday, CBS News’s Scott Pelley...