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… amid crowds of Shiite protesters pumping their fists and chanting demands for regime change was too much. They saw how Iran's influence has grown in Shiite-majority Iraq, along their northern border, and they were not prepared to let that happen again. As for the U.S., the Saudi...

…thus far hasn't been an upswell of democracy. It has been a dramatic spike in tensions between two geopolitical titans, Iran and Saudi Arabia. This new Middle East cold war comes complete with its own spy- versus-spy intrigues, disinformation campaigns, shadowy proxy forces, sup...

…ctions since the 1956 Sinai conflict. 22 May 1967 Egypt announces a blockade against Israeli shipping in the Strait of Tiran. 5 June 1967 ‘Six Day War’: Israel launches military strikes on Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. After six days of fighting, Israel captures the Sinai peninsula a...

Management a Iran Threatens to Close the Strait of Hormuz Division Investment Goldman Strait of Hormuz: April 2019 Crude Oil Production Per Country and Export Flows Arabia ; (85%) (9.8) Others 15%) = A third of world’s LNG and a fifth of global oil production goes through t...

…ppens in Syria is of great concern to the whole region. Together with its two principal allies, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah, Syria is viewed with great hostility by Israel and with wary suspicion by the United States. The Teh...

…putes with them if we can find the place where our interests overlap. The time has come for him to apply that wisdom to Iran. James Traub is a fellow of the Center on International Cooperation. Article 3. The National An uneasy courtship as Iran and Egypt test the waters Ala...

…eriously and that an agreement could be attained. He is now clinging desperately to power, and his only true allies are Iran and Hezbollah. Yet Israel’s (and, one hopes, our own) key precondition to any agreement would necessarily be a clean break in those relationships: an end t...

given time an improved "interim agreement" would be better (unless the P5+1 yield to a bad agreement.) ¢ The Iranians are very sophisticated. In their opinion (I emphasize: in their opinion), the American government has changed its goal without admitting it, from "Iran will not...

… needs to be put on the table, including an offer to suspend crippling oil sanctions in return for specific, verifiable Iranian steps to eliminate any nuclear breakout capabilities. Equally significant is establishing a credible military threat, given that Tehran has been willing...

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… needs to be put on the table, including an offer to suspend crippling oil sanctions in return for specific, verifiable Iranian steps to eliminate any nuclear breakout capabilities. Equally significant is establishing a credible military threat, given that Tehran has been willing...

Saudi and Iran, powerhouses of Sunni and Shiite Islam respectively, presently support opposing sides in many of the Middle East’s major confrontations, and are often seen as having radically divergent and competing visions for the future of the region. Which is why, in Lebanon —...

In a well-publicized national scandal in 2008, the Tehran police commander responsible for enforcing Iran's strict anti-vice laws, Reza Zarei, was caught nude in a brothel with six women (one of the women claimed he had asked them to pray naked in front of him). While American po...

capability. Period." to "Iran will not have military nuclear capability on our watch " e This is of course a completely different thing. And this perception only reinforces Iran's obduracy and the delaying tactics that they've adopted. ¢ Israel has a supreme interest in "keepin...

…budget, and the possibility of even more stringent ones if Congress fails to agree on raising the US debt ceiling. The Iranian nuclear programme remains a priority in Washington, but the carrier decision indicates a less warlike stance. One cannot say that US power is ebbing, bu...