Regime Change: Be Careful What You Wish For

05.13.2018 ________________________________________  American policy, John Bolton wrote in the Wall Street Journal in January, “should be ending Iran’s 1979 Islamic Continue reading →

Trump and North Korea: Remember Hudaybiyah

03.11.2018 ________________________________________ “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, Continue reading →

Indeed, ‘The World is Watching! #IranProtests’

01.07.2018 ________________________________________  As we ease ourselves into 2018 let us resolve to contextualize, to learn and remember:  That on April Continue reading →

President Trump, Not Iran, Is The Existential Threat

10.15.2017 _________________________________________ “The Last American,” an 1889 dystopian novel, is based on a fictional journal of a Persian admiral who Continue reading →

Who’s leading whom: Pyongyang. Tehran. Paris.

04.23.2017 ________________________________________   From Pyongyang to Paris foreign affairs dominated the stage this week – and not much of the Continue reading →

Iran: In Relationship with the Other

04.11.2015 _____________________ Thursday, April 2, 2015, Iran agreed to the framework of a nuclear settlement with the P5+1 that defines Continue reading →