News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for February 25: The Weekly Standard: Jaime Daremblum, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, blogs on the “underreported news” that the U.S. government is investigating “whether Venezuela recently defied American sanctions by sending… Continue Reading
News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for February 24: National Review Online: Clifford D. May, president of the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies, lashes out at the UN for considering Palestinian requests for a condemnation of Israeli settlement construction.… Continue Reading
Michael Rubin is on the offensive against the campaign to delist the Mojehedeen-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Rubin, a resident scholar at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, splits with some of his fellow hawks… Continue Reading
Iran hawks and neoconservatives have had a tendency to pick one of two arguments on the issue of whether Israel plays a central role in Middle East politics. The first argument states that Israel is a central character in Arab… Continue Reading
News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for February 23: The Wall Street Journal: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Emanuele Ottolenghi opines, “Arabs’ revolutionary awakening belies Western conventional wisdom in the Middle East,” and repeats a linkage-denying argument that “ordinary… Continue Reading