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Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a think tank that specializes in the Middle East. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Terrorist Network (2011).

A key objective of the war is to destabilize the Islamic regime to the point where widespread military defections occur.
Washington and Jerusalem are orchestrating a pounding air campaign against Iran and Hezbollah, which are paying a heavy price for their actions.
The entire autocratic theocracy has got to be removed, as well as its terror proxies and the abysmal treatment of its diverse citizenry.
While many hope for change, the reality for Iranians, as well as many Nigerians and Sudanese, is shaped by fear and resilience.
Turkish representation on a Board of Peace, the continued involvement of Qatar in Gaza reconstruction plans and the reasserting of Hamas are not conducive to peace on Israel’s border.
The world has not seen an uprising of this scale in the Islamic Republic, at least not in contemporary times. The people are defiant and keep pouring into the streets.
Israel, a tiny state surrounded by several enemies, should be very judicious about what is happening in the Islamic Republic.
A 42-page manifesto comes replete with total distortions, historical revisionisms, legal and moral inversions, and gross misrepresentations.
Antisemitism does not survive without oxygen; it finds oxygen across the political spectrum.
The two-year war not only claimed thousands of lives but resulted in massive displacement and widespread destruction, fundamentally altering the country’s social and political landscape.
The city’s newly elected Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, supports the BDS movement and is likely to push an anti-Israel agenda.
Despite the risks involved, Iranian women are quietly challenging social norms and government authority, demonstrating remarkable courage.