September 12, 2022

Could This Be What Putin and the Mullahs Are Cooking Up?

On July 19, Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran on an official visit and held meetings with its president, Ebrahim Raisi, and its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.  There are substantial grounds to believe that during those meeting...

June 29, 2009

Obama's Middle East Strategy Meets Reality

There is good reason to believe the goals of the 9/11attacks were not just to inflict maximum casualties, economic dislocation and humiliation on America, but also to provoke a strong US response. Osama bin-Laden and his band of murderers apparently ...

September 16, 2006

Iran and Israel

While Israel believes its war with Hezb'allah had reinvigorated its deterrence posture, an Iranian attack on Israel is now more likely than before. Two main reasons account for this forecast. First, Tehran must now realize that its strategy of relyin...