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…sponsibility to stay at a time when there remained a real possibility Israel might need to take military action against Iran. To a mix of consternation and anger among many Labor colleagues, I ended up taking what seemed to me the only realistic option. In January 2011, I left th...

challenge to convince the Iranians that we’re quite serious about the use of force,” he said. “In the first term, the administration didn’t always speak with one voice on this issue. So what Hagel says can make a difference.” Despite his poorly receieved performance at his conf...

…hrain -- are large, readily identifiable, and will be increasingly vulnerable to future targeting by nuclear weaponry. Iran's nuclear weapons, assuming it gets them, will pose a direct threat to American military surge capabilities. Although American policymakers and military co...

… in the Middle East have not changed substantially with respect to Iraq, Syria, or even the impositions of sanctions on Iran. However, the disappearance of the Saudi journalist who entered the Saudi Embassy in Turkey on October 2" has the potential to raise risks to global oil su...

…hile the most authentic opponents in the region of these Sunni al-Qaedists - the governments of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran - have found themselves overthrown (in the case of Iraq and Libya), subverted with U.S. support (in the case of Syria), or sanctioned and threatened as par...

A nuclear Iran is the most imminent and acute danger to the stability of the entire region. But it is not the only one: Radical Islamist terror is soreading rapidly. And the accumulation of missiles and rockets will necessitate regional missile defense. So what is to be done?...

… in the Middle East have not changed substantially with respect to Iraq, Syria, or even the impositions of sanctions on Iran. However, the disappearance of the Saudi journalist who entered the Saudi Embassy in Turkey on October 2™ has the potential to raise risks to global oil su...

…rategy was the need to retain our ability to deter, and if necessary defeat, our enemies. A nuclear Syria — or Iraq, or Iran — would dramatically alter the balance of power in the region, at obvious risk to Israel. Syria posed a particular threat, as part of an increasingly close...

From: Ehud Barak Sent: 4/23/2015 1:34:41 PM To: Epstein Jeffrey [[email protected]] Subject: Fwd: What Iran nuke deal means for Israel: Ehud Barak Hi Jeff Bill Clinton 1994. Food for thought. EB http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=30003 69298 Sent from my iPhone HOUSE OVERSI...

… oil exports could be used as a political weapon in a world with tighter oil supply thanks to impending US sanctions on Iran. As we review the geopolitical developments of 2018, it is clear that some of the risks have abated while others have increased. With the exception of a s...

…. The attack—carried out on the outskirts of Damascus—was met by a sharp threat of retaliation from both the Syrian and Iranian governments: a significant indicator of the regional reverberations of the Syrian civil war and the general volatility permeating the region. Despite t...

… It does represent a re-balancing of relationships in a changing Middle East nonetheless. A new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 (five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany) has now been scheduled to take place on February 26" following weeks of conflict...

Currency super strong. . sanctions on Russia. Iran and other purveyors of destabilization on their heels. . these people say don't give him a platform. Don't listen . Don't debate. Don't look at the facts. Call him names. He's a racist. fascist. Mysogonist . Dont let him speak....

…leader denied that his party has dispatched fighters to assist the Syrian regime in quelling the protest movement. Anti-Iran and -Hizbullah slogans were chanted in a number of Syrian cities in response to Nasrallah’s defense of the regime and his pictures were burned in Deir Ezzo...

… oil exports could be used as a political weapon in a world with tighter oil supply thanks to impending US sanctions on Iran. As we review the geopolitical developments of 2018, it is clear that some of the risks have abated while others have increased. With the exception of a s...