Talks between the US and Iran to put something like the JCPOA back in place have been going on for a couple of years now. I’m not keeping close track of the talks the way I did back in 2014 and 2015, because back then...
iran
This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says is a ballistic missile in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, on March 19, 2023. North Korea says that.
John Bolton. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Back during the Obama administration, opponents of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) peddled a lot of nonsense in their.
Well, this does make a certain kind of sense, I suppose. The Israeli strike on what now appears to have been a nuclear reactor at a very low state of construction is preventive war at its most distant; the Israelis have determined that Syria, at...
Hilarious.Update: The Youtube video (below) has better sound.
I think that Dan Drezner's effort at refuting Rick Perlstein's Khruschev-Ahmadinejad comparison is quite weak. Dan is correct to point out the dangers of historical analogy, but I find the.
Matt and Ezra cite this wonderful Rick Perlstein post, with Ezra adding the following:Remember here that the Soviet Union wasn't just a mean country. It was the epicenter of an expansionistic ideology that believed its historical triumph to be pre-assured. It was as religious as...
Shorter Verbatim Michael Ledeen: "Washington diplomats have steadfastly refused to see the Iranian regime for what it is: a relentless enemy that seeks to dominate or destroy us." Um, I'd.
The Financial Times is reporting that Chinese-made weapons are being supplied, through Iran, to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. A senior US official recently told the FT that Iran appeared.
Glenn Greenwald and I have disagreed in the past about the journalism of Michael Gordon. Perhaps because I'm interested specifically in security and defense issues, I find much of Gordon's work useful. Cobra II was an outstanding account of the invasion of Iraq, and Gordon...
In 1921, British support helped raise a capable, 43 year old Brigadier General named Reza Khan to prominence on the Persian political scene. Reze Khan had performed well as head.
Ezra gets this entirely correct:The remarkable thing about the growing liberal hawk literature on Iran is its evasiveness -- the unwillingness to speak in concrete terms of both the threat.