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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as he arrives at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2014, for a day of meetings about Iran's nuclear program. Credit: U.S. State Department.

First, listen to Iran’s foreign minister

The idea of lifting sanctions on Iran and then expecting it to curtail its missile program might sound good, but has little to do with reality.

Ayelet Savyon, Yigal Carmon and Ze'ev B. Begin

December 22, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Dec. 19, 2019. Source: Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour.

The making of a president?

Trump’s handling of the Soleimani affair proves that he gets it: Confrontation with evil is unavoidable, the only choice is between standing up or being humiliatingly defeated.

January 14, 2020

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

No principles, no dignity, no power, no deterrence

The powers of evil cannot be tamed by American self-abnegation. This lesson should have been assimilated in the previous century.

September 22, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and Qatar's leader Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at the White House on July 9, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

‘The Americans are good people’—just ask the Qatari emir

It’s happening before our very eyes: Just as Qatar has bought the entire world, it is likewise purchasing the goodwill of the U.S. Armed Forces.

July 14, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on May 21, 2017 in Saudi Arabia. Credit: White House/Shealah Craighead.

The evil alliance between Israel, Qatar and Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crows that he has forged ties with regional powers with whom Israel did not maintain ties previously, but empowering Qatar only estranges these countries, which unlike Israel have seen through Qatar's two-facedness and unlike Netanyahu treat Qatar as an enemy.

February 12, 2019

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Trump is unable to pressure Erdoğan economically because his bogus ally Qatar will save Turkey yet again

Whether out of ignorance or venality, America’s clinging to Qatar despite its anti-U.S. actions dooms the Trump administration’s Middle East policy, just as the Obama administration’s Iran fixation doomed its Middle East policy.

January 16, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi speaking in Washington, D.C., in March 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Khashoggi’s murder and the battle for supremacy in the Sunni world

Now that Saudi Arabia has acknowledged its responsibility for the Khashoggi murder, it is time to clarify Turkey's role and responsibility in the affair, from the perspective of the battle between Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Saudi Arabia's Muhammad Bin Salman for the leadership of the Sunni world.

November 5, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in June 2016 in Moscow. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

The mask drops: Russia reveals itself as Israel’s enemy

But with Russia’s equipping Syria with S-300s, and its inevitable operation by Russian officers against Israeli aircraft, the Russians risk a major military and technological debacle.

October 7, 2018

On July 14, 2015, foreign ministers and secretaries of state are pictured in Vienna, Austria, upon the announcement that Iran and the P5+1 nations had reached an agreement on Iran's nuclear program. From left to right: Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (European Union), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (United Kingdom), and John Kerry (United States). Credit: Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äusseres via Wikimedia Commons.

Germany is far removed from its dark past, but its Iran policy remains sordid

Germany's past should have enjoined her to openly take the moral lead in promoting regime change when dealing with a totalitarian regime such as Iran.

June 4, 2018