Tag: Iran

It will take a long time for the old order to be replaced; the U.S. will not vanish overnight.

All predictions regarding the end of the war have proved wrong.

The critical issue being overlooked, however, is whether the Gulf clock will tick patiently throughout this process.

The new threat confounds Iranian strategists who based their negotiations on backing Trump into a corner ahead of the midterm elections.

Military force can destroy a hostile regime, but it cannot create a stable political order.

The Iranian axis, so to speak, is working to curb American influence — not to prove that the Shia are right or the Sunnis are wrong.

[These changes] reflect a deeper transformation in the concept of American national interest after two decades of wars in the region.

If diplomacy were an action movie, the clock would have been stuck on 0:01 seconds for the last three months.

[Trump's] attack not only reinforced the value of nuclear weapons to Iran, but also to the other countries in the region.

There is an increasingly common perception . . . that Trump simply does not know what to do.

What America’s allies fear most is not that the United States will back down, but that it no longer knows what it is fighting for, yet refuses to stop.

Netanyahu is lying. He knows he is lying. And others know it too.