Iran’s Grand Strategy
This week China and Russia unexpectedly dropped their opposition to a third set of U.N. sanctions on Iran for continuing its enrichment of uranium. Why did they do so? This could be a concerted effort...
View ArticleA Recount in Iran
Yesterday, opposition reformists asked for a vote recount in Iran’s parliamentary elections, which took place Friday. Earlier in the week they had challenged the fairness of the vote. Despite enjoying...
View ArticleA New Iranian Leader, A More Dangerous Iran
Yesterday, Ali Larijani was elected speaker of the Iranian parliament. In his new perch, the country’s former chief nuclear negotiator is bound to cause grief for his old rival, President Mahmoud...
View ArticleMcCain on Iran
In his AIPAC speech this morning, John McCain talked tough on Iran: [W]e hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that...
View ArticleChina on Bended Knee
The New York Times reports: Whether by White House design or Chinese insistence, President Obama has steered clear of public meetings with Chinese liberals, free press advocates and even ordinary...
View ArticleBig Six Meeting on Iran Produces Less than Nothing
Representatives of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany met today to discuss the fact that Iran is making fools out of them. But the results of this meeting...
View ArticleA Letter from President Obama to Kim Jong-il
As Jennifer noted, President Obama has written a letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. The exact contents of the letter are unknown, so I decided to just make it all up. Dear Supreme Leader, How...
View ArticleImagine What They Think in Tehran
Op-ed-page editors have been watching the Iranian mullahs and think the Obama administration should be paying closer attention. The Washington Post, for example, observes another hostage situation —...
View ArticleIs Iran’s Choice Between Theocracy and Totalitarianism?
There has been no shortage of commentary trying to dissuade Americans from taking the Iran nuclear threat seriously. The arguments run the gamut from attempts to show that Iran’s leadership is...
View ArticleThe Obami’s Engagement Dead End
Hillary Clinton is now decrying the emergence in Iran of a military dictatorship. She declares: “We see that the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the Parliament is being...
View ArticleObama Envoy Vouched for Convicted Terrorist?
Fox News – doing what the Obama-approved outlets won’t — takes a look at the newest Obama envoy. The report tells us: President Obama’s new envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Rashad...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Uh oh: Eliot Spitzer is back in the political ring, “acting as an unofficial adviser to New York’s current governor, the hapless David Paterson, whose campaign for re-election is basically in the...
View ArticleThe Resistance Bloc Will Not Be Appeased
Hezbollah’s reaction to Israel’s plan to build 1,600 apartments in a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem might help President Barack Obama understand something that has so far eluded him: the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Trouble back home: “Sue Lowden has established herself as the far-ahead GOP front-runner in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race and the Republican most likely to beat Sen. Harry Reid, even with a Tea Party...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Ouch: Charlie Crist’s campaign manager and handpicked Senate appointee dumps him. Yikes (for Democrats): “Republican Congressman Mark Kirk has earned a modest pick-up in support, while his Democratic...
View ArticleObama Pressuring Israel (Still) Not to Hit Iran
The New York Times reports: The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer —...
View ArticleWhat Bushehr Tells Us
Jamie Fly has an important analysis of the Bushehr reactor. He contends that the reactor in and of itself is less important (“The real key to Iran’s nuclear program lies at its facilities at Natanz,...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
It’s about loyalty and persistence: “Fifty-seven years ago, an armistice ended the fighting in Korea — another unpopular conflict, far bloodier than the Iraq war, although shorter. … Yet when the war...
View ArticleA More Dangerous World
COMMENTARY contributor Bret Stephens identifies the cumulative danger posed by an administration obsessed by multilateralism and possessing many false and bad ideas about international affairs: Last...
View ArticleWhat Vietnam Should Teach Us About Iran
J.E. Dyer’s excellent post yesterday correctly noted that this week’s talks with Iran, like the previous rounds, will merely buy Tehran more time to advance its nuclear program. That the West would...
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