I do not understand why anyone thinks that a war against Iran is a good idea. Part of the thinking, if you’re Israel or Saudi Arabia, is that the war would be carried out by the United States, which makes it more attractive to them....
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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.
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 attempt to derail a pretty robust non-proliferation deal. Some hawks argued that the United States...
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.
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 one Perlstein makes pretty solid. Dan's points:1) The USSR was an acknowledged superpower; Iran is...
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.
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 to be providing the Chinese-made weapons. He said Washington had no evidence that Beijing was...
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.
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.