Operation Outside the Box

April 17, 2024 | |

Israel Promises Response to Iran Attack as World Leaders Urge Restraint

Israel’s war cabinet decided to strike back at Iran “clearly and forcefully” during a closed-door meeting on April 15. The Times of Israel, citing Israel’s Channel 12, reported that the cabinet chose to respond to send a message that Israel “would not allow an attack of that magnitude against it to pass without a...

July 13, 2020 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran Could Face a Summer of Nuclear Sabotage

A powerful explosion destroyed an advanced centrifuge assembly plant in Iran earlier this month, an event which anonymous sources told U.S. journalists was the result of Israeli sabotage. An attack by Jerusalem...

April 25, 2016 | John Hannah |

It’s the Proliferation, Stupid

As the world prepares for a possible fifth nuclear weapons...

August 26, 2015 | |

Obama’s Arms-Control Delusion

Advocates of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran argue that, despite the duplicity of the Iranian regime, the deal will work because arms control worked to contain the nuclear...

January 6, 2015 | John Hannah Foreign Policy |

It’s Time to Pursue Regime Change in Iran

There are lots of reasons to be skeptical that 2015 will see a diplomatic breakthrough in efforts to end Iran’s nuclear weapons bid. But one of the more compelling...

June 23, 2014 | |

Iran Could Outsource Its Nuclear-Weapons Program To North Korea

As the Iran nuclear talks grind toward a soft July 20 deadline in Vienna, U.S. negotiators and their partners seem oblivious to a loophole that could render any agreement meaningless. Tehran coul...

April 11, 2013 | R. James Woolsey Joint Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs |

Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus

Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...

April 11, 2013 |

Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus

Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...

February 15, 2013 | Tony Badran |

Iran and Israel Fight, Lebanon Loses

It’s been more than two weeks since the Israeli airstrike in Syria against the arms convoy headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bits of information, coupled with ominous ...

February 14, 2013 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Why Iran Already Has the Bomb

If North Korea has the bomb—as this week’s nuclear test indicated—then for all practical purposes, so does Iran.

July 11, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Why the US Could Bomb Iran

The White House’s line—that a strike can only delay the program—is an attempt to downplay our military capability

March 12, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

On Syria, Follow McCain

Here’s to John McCain, leading from the front. Last week, the Arizona senator cut through all the White House doubletalk on the Syrian uprising and demanded a more active U.S. policy, inclu...

March 7, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal National Review Online |

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...

March 5, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal New York Daily News |

Israel Has the Power to Knock Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state. Thos...

November 9, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet

Grand Strategy

Contrary to Washington wisdom, Israel is a clear strategic asset to the United States.

September 21, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Cheney Got It Right on Syrian Nukes

The CIA and Bob Woodward got it wrong.

September 16, 2011 | John Hannah |

The Right Call on the Syrian Threat

Co-authored by Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, and Eric Edelman Bob Woodward...

August 26, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A Still-Open Nuclear File

Syria's violations would be grave enough if al-Kibar reflected a Syrian attempt to build nuclear weapons for itself.

May 16, 2011 |

Obama and Syria: Courting Disaster

 As many others have lamented, the administration's fecklessness on Syria is rapidly turning into a national disgrace. It represents a moral and strategic failing of major proportions....

February 16, 2010 | |

How Syria Benefits From The Axis of Proliferation

Two weeks ago, a report appeared on the Japanese news site Nikkei quoting Western intelligence sources...