Posts Tagged: iran middle east
Iran Ramps Up Its Conflict with Saudi Arabia
If there is one place Saudi Arabia was happy to be low on the totem pole, it was Iran. Those days are over. Strategic thinkers...
China and Iran Unite
On March 27, China and Iran signed an expansive deal in Tehran. Neither the Iranian nor the Chinese leadership revealed details, but analysts believe it was largely...
Did the Armenia-Azerbaijan War Weaken Iran?
In the wake of the Second Karabakh War, Iran now finds itself facing Turkey’s growing influence north of its border. Ankara gained a corridor through...
China and the Dangers of Current Supply Chains
The COVID-19 pandemic ramped up discussion about changing global supply chains. This notion was present before the epidemic, when tensions with China were growing on...
Gulf Security: The Arab Gulf States Have No Good Options
According to one analyst, the US faces a stark choice in the Middle East if it continues its maximum pressure campaign against Iran: confront the Islamic...
Iran Looms Large in Central Asia Despite Sanctions and Saudi Financial Muscle
Saudi Arabia may have gotten more than it bargained for when authorities in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second-largest city, ordered that the city’s largest and most popular mosque...
Iran’s Strategic Mistake: Too Many Enemies
Sometimes, political demise is caused by having too many enemies. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hitler was delighted. He reasoned that Japan, as an ally, was...
Soleimani’s Killing Dramatically Improves Odds for Middle East Peace
JNS.org - In the immediate aftermath of the killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the media were aflame with predictions that World War...
Soleimani’s Death Opens Door to Alternative Security Arrangements in the Gulf
In line with an Iranian plan launched at last year’s UN General Assembly by president Hassan Rouhani that calls for a security architecture that would exclude...
Former Baghdad Parliamentarian Says Most Iraqis Support Soleimani Killing
JNS.org - Mithal al-Alusi, a former Iraqi parliamentarian, said in a phone interview this week that he supports Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani,...
Underestimating Iran’s Threats to Israel and the Wider Middle East
After the Iran nuclear deal was completed in 2015, the American news media significantly decreased its coverage of all things related to Iran. As a...
The World Must Wake Up to Iranian Terror and Violence
With the economic noose tightening, the fundamentalists in Tehran are growing increasingly bold. Aside from their usual venomous rhetoric, the Iranians are starting to test...
In 2019, Israel Faces Dangers on Many Fronts
JNS.org - The coming year is likely to be one of uncertainty as Israel tries to walk the extremely fine line between the highly volatile...
Israeli Security Cabinet Member Warns of Further Iranian Aggression in the Mideast
JNS.org - For years, Israel has been grappling with a new reality in the Middle East in which Iran has increasingly emerged as an ambitious and aggressive...
