US Policy
This Iranian Play Is Nothing New, and Panic Is Unwarranted
Israel’s Air Defences Are Holding, Even as Israeli and U.S. Air Power Operates Freely over Iranian Skies
Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s New Supreme Leader, Is a Devoted Son of the Islamic Republic Whose Rule May Take the Regime in an Even More Extreme Direction
What Could Change This Picture Is a Joint Us-Israeli Long-War Strategy to Bring Down the Iranian Regime by Supporting Both Armed and Civilian Opposition on the Ground
National Intelligence Council Products and National Intelligence Estimates Promote Groupthink
Westerners Suddenly Discover, with Belated Horror, That the World Is Not an Airbnb Catalogue and That History Does Not Pause to Let Us Check Out
Security Would Be America’s More Effective Leverage to Coerce Spain, Rather than Using Trade
If Washington and Jerusalem Are Serious in Their Stated Ambition of Destroying the Islamic Regime in Tehran, They Need of Allies on the Ground
Perhaps a Portion of the Huge Facility Can Become a Repository for Documents and Personnel Records Related to the Regime
The Polisario’s Collapse Is Now Accelerating in Real Time. Its Traditional Patrons Are Vanishing
While Morocco Is Pro-Western and a Signatory to the Abraham Accords, Algeria Is Aligned with Russia, China, and Iran
The Islamic Republic May Be Portraying Certain Leaders as Pragmatists as Part of a Deliberate Campaign
Ideologues Do Not Shed Their Ideology Easily and Will See Compromise as a Weakness to Exploit
Damascus’s Plan for Sweida Could Reshape Israel’s Northern Frontier
A Dispatch from a Sealed Room in Israel on the Necessary, Terrible Cost of Ending the Iranian Regime
The Case for Investing in Iranian Civil Society Alongside Military Replenishment
Another Massive Post-Liberal Adjustment in Which the U.S. Is Sidelining Systems That No Longer Function as They Should
Not a Separatist Movement but a Safe Haven