Richard Lawless: Japan-U.S. Alliance Faces ‘Priority Gap’

Here was the American president ... deciding to go to war on a gut feeling and with no visible concern for what it would mean beyond [U.S.] borders.

[I]t is hard to believe that Iranians are any closer to democracy today than they were a few months ago.

Rasool’s expulsion deepened an already deteriorating relationship between the two countries, one that had been on a downward spiral since Trump returned to office.

[T]his attack is not merely a simple instance of gun violence; it goes on to show how the country is undergoing one of its worst phases in recent times, signaling deep-running turmoil.