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Gregg Roman

Executive Director

Gregg Roman is the executive director of the Middle East Forum. In 2014, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency named him one of the “ten most inspiring global Jewish leaders,” and he previously served as the political advisor to Israel’s deputy foreign minister and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A frequent speaker on Middle East affairs, Mr. Roman has testified before Congress and the Knesset and appears on international news channels such as Fox News, i24NEWS, Al Jazeera, BBC World News, and Israel’s Channels 12 and 13. He studied national security and political communications at American University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and has contributed to The Hill, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, and the Jerusalem Post.

Articles by this Author
The Mecca Agreement is a message, not a military. Israel should send the reply: an alliance that trains together, builds together, and shows up when the missiles fly. The three leaders in Mecca produced a photograph. Israel should produce a bloc.
Middle East Forum Online
Answer Mecca With an Alliance
The Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani Pact Will Not Fight. Israel Should Build the Bloc That Will
August 12, 2026
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Gregg Roman
A sampling of offensive missiles of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces at the military museum in Tehran.
Middle East Forum Observer
Hunt the Archer, Not the Arrow
American missile defense is winning every engagement and losing the war. The remedy is an offensive campaign against Iran’s launchers
July 28, 2026
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Gregg Roman
This detailed infographic diagram illustrates a multi-layered missile defense system, organized across four altitude zones: low-atmosphere, mid-atmosphere, upper-atmosphere, and exosphere. The system features four numbered layers, integrating multiple components including ground-based Patriot batteries and THAAD systems, sea-based SM-3 missiles on a guided-missile destroyer, and the Arrow system.
Reports
The Magazine War: Regional Missile Defense Against Iran
The region can defeat Iranian raids. It cannot yet outlast Iranian arsenals. The difference is measured in interceptor stockpiles and factory output.
July 27, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
The Waqf Maneuver: The Secret Restructuring of CAIR’s Real Estate
CAIR Secretly Surrendered Its National Headquarters to an Islamic Trust Using an Insider Corporate Shell
July 21, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Middle East Forum Online
U.S. No Longer Needs Turkey to Shape Caucasus Future. It Has Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Offers Washington the Strategic Access, Energy Security, and Regional Leverage Turkey No Longer Provides
June 30, 2026
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Gregg Roman
The influence mechanisms shaping Turkish foreign and national security policy.
Special Reports
The Architecture of Turkey’s Anti-Americanism - Matrix
Inside the Think-Tank Network Fueling Ankara’s Rift with Washington — Interactive Matrix
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
The provided reports detail how Turkey has engineered a structural anti-American doctrine through state-aligned think tanks, even as it relies on American aerospace technology to build its own autonomous defense industry. In response, the assessments argue that Washington must stop unconditionally "selling the rope" to Ankara and instead tie all future defense procurement to measurable behavioral changes.
Reports
The Anatomy of Turkish Anti-Americanism
Ending the Subsidy: Why the United States Must Stop Extending Credit to an Institutionally Anti-American NATO Ally
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
The Architecture of Turkey’s Anti-Americanism - Organization Dossiers
Twenty-One Dossiers
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Special Reports
Ending the American Subsidy to Turkish Grand Strategy
Washington Must End Support for Think Tanks that Pursue Turkey’s Strategic Autonomy as a Zero-Sum Game Against the US
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Special Reports
The Intellectual Architecture of Turkey’s Foreign Policy
Mapping the 21 Think Tanks and Foundations that Supply the Anti-American Narratives Driving Ankara’s Shift Away from the West.
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with U.S. President Donald Trump at a September 30, 2025, meeting on Middle East issues at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Middle East Forum Observer
The Architecture of Turkey’s Anti-Americanism
Erdoğan’s Turkey Is Using the Hegemon’s Tools to Build the Machine That Will One Day Render the Hegemon Irrelevant
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Israel is not a signatory. Israel asked to see the text and was refused. As the deal came together, the president of the United States told all sides to “stand down,” and was, by every account, blunter than that in private with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an open rupture between the two governments on display. Image: Netanyahu, Trump, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian with the signed MOU.
Middle East Forum Online
Israel Won the War, but the Peace Is Being Signed Without It
If No Ally Will Write the Red Lines of Israel Into a Deal, Then It Has No Choice but to Become the Guarantor of Its Own Security
June 18, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Middle East Forum Online
The Islamabad Surrender
We Fought the Islamic Republic for Thirty-Nine Days and We Were Winning. The Memorandum in Islamabad Hands That Victory Back. And It Sells the Iranian People to Do It.
June 17, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Middle East Forum Observer
Paying Tehran to Keep the Bomb
No Agreement, Not This One and Not a Better One, Can Permanently Guarantee That Iran Never Builds a Nuclear Weapon
June 14, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Israel does not need this aid to remain a tier-one defense power. Defense exports hit $14.79 billion in 2024, the fourth consecutive record year. Image: An Israeli Air Force F-35.
Middle East Forum Online
The U.S.-Israel Aid Era Is Ending; Drift Is the Greatest Risk
The Only Open Question Is Whether the Transition Is Built or Improvised
May 24, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
From Subsidy to Sovereignty
Restructuring the U.S.-Israel Defense Relationship for the Post-Aid Era
May 5, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Each successful U.S. procurement of an Israeli system builds a domestic constituency for the alliance—an industrial constituency rooted in specific congressional districts with the political durability of a Boeing or Lockheed program.
Middle East Forum Online
AIPAC at the Frontier: A Stronger Alliance in the Post-Aid Era
The Best Chapter of the U.S.-Israel Alliance Is Yet to Come
May 4, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Since last Yom HaZikaron, one hundred seventy-four soldiers of the IDF have been buried beneath the small flags at Mount Herzl and in cemeteries from Metula to Be’er Sheva. Seventy-nine civilians have been added to the long roll of the murdered.
Middle East Forum Online
In the Same Trench: An American Reflection for Yom Hazikaron, 5786
This Year the Silence Had to Reach Further than It Has Ever Reached Before
April 21, 2026
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Gregg Roman
The direct U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran proper have paused. The Strait of Hormuz has been opened for a two-week window. Negotiations in Islamabad are scheduled to begin April 10. The question is not whether the coalition won the war. The question is whether “won” describes anything that has actually happened.
Middle East Forum Online
Thirty-Nine Days of Fire
The Tactical Triumph and Strategic Uncertainty of Operation Epic Fury
April 8, 2026
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Gregg Roman
An analyst examines plans for the Iran War.
Middle East Forum Online
The Unwritten War
One Month in, America’s Analysts Are Offering a Rearview Mirror. The Iran War Needs a Roadmap
March 31, 2026
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Gregg Roman