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Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein is the director of the Turan Research Center at the Yorktown Institute.

Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan made an underreported but significant visit to Israel in November.
The goal of a domestic crackdown following airstrikes on its nuclear facilities is not only to catch Israeli spies, but to show its population that the mullahs are still in control.
For moderate Arab autocracies, the Palestinian issue has been the most effective radicalizing and mobilizing cause throughout the Arab world.
French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t mind being on Iran’s side when he believes it benefits his own country.
France has been content to ignore the hazards of its decisions in a haughty and neocolonialist pursuit of influence.
The Biden administration is skirting U.S. law while financially empowering a brutal, duplicitous regime.
What many proponents of an agreement have repeatedly failed to recognize is that the regime has been dead set on having a nuclear arsenal, no matter the cost.