To understand where Iran is heading, look at what its children are learning. That’s the message at the core of Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran’s Textbooks, a comprehensive new study that has just been released by Freedom House. The report…
Yesterday, while we were busy watching the Sunday talk shows, Russians were voting for their next president. To the surprise of practically no one, the victor has already been announced: Dmitri Medvedev, the Kremlin’s current First Deputy Prime Minister and…
It’s never a good sign when France takes a more robust stance on a particular foreign policy issue than we do. But that, apparently, is exactly the state of affairs when it comes to Iran. French Defense Minister Herve Morin,…
Another UN attempt at sanctions; another demonstration of Iranian defiance. The latest round of compromise sanctions squeaked out by the P5+1 (Russia, China, France, Great Britain, the United States and Germany) has not even been formally unveiled yet. But already,…
Apropos J.P.’s post, I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to Fred Cedoz’ excellent analysis of U.S. energy policy in The Journal of International Security Affairs. The piece may be a couple of years old, but it is still spot-on….
Well, that was quick. CNN is reporting that — after several weeks of comparative decline — attacks against American troops by bombs “believed linked to Iran” are again on the rise. According to General Petraeus, “EFPs have gone up, actually,…
Visiting Israel on the first part of his Middle East tour, President Bush is hitting all of the right notes. In his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem yesterday, Dubya took pains to stress that…
The conventional wisdom has it that no substantive foreign policy or national security work gets done in Washington during the “silly season,” especially not by a lame-duck administration. The Bush White House may be poised to prove the sages wrong,…
In recent weeks, a number of pundits have pointed to the improving security situation in Iraq as proof positive that Iran has begun scaling back its destabilizing influence in the former Ba’athist state. But is Iran really behaving better? The…
The P5+1 (the U.S., England, France, Russia, China and Germany) met again today in an effort to hammer out a third round of sanctions against Iran. Quite predictably, the results have been less than stellar. Administration officials are attempting to…
