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September 16, 2020
Iran Must Be Banned From International Sports
The Islamic Republic in Iran has executed Navid Afkari, a young wrestler with a potentially bright future ahead of him. Navid’s execution has led to a major outcry among Iranians in Iran and among the...
September 16, 2020
The UN General Assembly at 75
The 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly is underway. Publicists are calling it “historic.” I suspect you’re thinking: Is this exciting, or what? I’d say the answer is “what.”...
September 14, 2020
Pompeo’s Cyprus Visit a Sign of U.S. Reengagement in the Eastern Mediterranean
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the Cypriot capital of Nicosia on Saturday to address both Turkey’s ongoing oil and gas exploration in Cypriot and Greek waters as well as Russia’s efforts...
September 13, 2020
How to burst CCP’s balloon
So, the first thing to understand—and this is important—is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believes it can rank countries based on what it calls Comprehensive National Power (CNP). It has an...
September 11, 2020
The Plight of Iranians in Turkey
Turkish authorities on Monday detained Maryam Shariatmadari, an anti-Hijab activist twice-jailed in Iran, threatening deportation back to her home country. Although an international outcry from...
September 11, 2020
Desperate to Sustain Stock Market Bubble, Tehran Taps Its Sovereign Wealth Fund
Tehran announced on Tuesday that it would use 1 percent of its National Development Fund (NDF) – one Iran’s few remaining sources of hard currency – to stabilize the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The...
September 11, 2020
Iran’s Longstanding Cooperation with Armenia
Download article When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Iran’s stable northern boundary suddenly became a shared border with five states: land borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan,...
September 10, 2020
How Washington Can Help Bridge the Gap Between Seoul and Tokyo
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s resignation has raised hopes of a resolution to Japan and South Korea’s ongoing dispute over Tokyo’s abuses during World War II. However, a change in Japanese...
September 10, 2020
To Succeed in Competition with China, Don’t Abandon the Middle East
As the United States somberly observes the 9/11 anniversary this week, some Americans are in a mood to withdraw military forces from the wider Middle East. Long-time advocates for withdrawal on the political...
September 10, 2020
‘Ally-shoring’ will help US rebuild economy and global leadership
Excerpt Like a giant global pause button, the COVID-19 crisis has forced us to look hard at our world, our relationships with people and governments across continents. It has also made vivid the fragility...
September 10, 2020
Why not add Israel to this year’s US-UAE Iron Union exercise?
Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached an historic agreement last month, making the UAE only the third Arab country to make peace with the Jewish state. Washington and Jerusalem hope that other...
September 9, 2020
Trump’s ‘They Want to Do Nothing But Fight Wars’ Smear Was Nasty—And Inaccurate
Speaking on Monday, President Trump once again decried the so-called “endless wars,” claiming that U.S. soldiers are “in love with” him because he is extricating America from those conflicts....
September 9, 2020
Azerbaijan MP tells ‘Post’ Iran must not execute wrestler
In the first political statement from a majority Shi’ite country that borders the Islamic Republic of Iran, an important Azerbaijan MP on Wednesday told The Jerusalem Post that Tehran’s rulers should...
September 9, 2020
Hamas Prioritizes Terrorism Over COVID-19 Outbreak in Gaza
Amid a recent COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Israel agreed to a Qatari-brokered ceasefire last week but failed to reach a long-term truce. Hamas and other terrorist factions likely intend...
September 9, 2020
The Biden Agenda: Why ‘Outside-In’ Diplomacy Could Be the Key to Middle East Peace
In October 2016, I attended an intimate discussion with a senior Israeli diplomat. Participants took turns peppering him with questions about security problems that plagued the Middle East. When it was...
September 9, 2020
The 9/11 anniversary and the 9/11 wars
The Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was a wakeup call. It led to a high-intensity armed conflict that, within a few years, defeated the fascists of Europe and Asia. The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New...
September 9, 2020
How Trump can enforce the snapback of UN sanctions on Iran
President Trump recently demanded the indefinite restoration of the United Nations’s sanctions on Iran that were terminated by the Obama-Biden nuclear deal — including an arms embargo that was scheduled...
September 8, 2020
China’s growing influence in the Persian Gulf should worry Washington
China’s influence in the Persian Gulf region is increasing dramatically. In July 2020, Western media outlets reported that China and the Islamic Republic of Iran had drafted a tentative agreement that...
September 7, 2020
British minister opposes death penalty for Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari
The UK’s minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on Sunday urged the Iranian regime not to execute the champion wrestler Navid Afkari, joining...
September 6, 2020
President Joe Biden would give Iran what it wants most — so Iran hopes he defeats Trump
Iranians are carefully watching the U.S. presidential election campaign because they know their own future is on the line. But while two factions of the Islamist regime are campaigning against each other...
September 5, 2020
ROK/US combined training protects integrity of the OPCON transition process
The ROK/U.S. Combined Forces Command (ROK/U.S. CFC) completed its first theater-level training in more than a year on Aug. 28. An assessment of initial open-source reporting suggests that the recent training...
September 4, 2020
Turkey Slams U.S. Decision to Lift Cyprus Arms Embargo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday that he will allow “the sale of non-lethal defense articles and services to the Republic of Cyprus,” partially lifting Washington’s 33-year arms embargo....
September 4, 2020
Secret Sites in the Desert: The Dangers of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Hedging
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is building two clandestine facilities with Chinese assistance, which Western intelligence agencies suspect may have nuclear applications. The secretive construction of these...
September 4, 2020
The UAE-Israel Deal Spells Big Trouble For Iran
Watching Israel’s national carrier, El Al, make its maiden trip to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, including an overflight of Saudi Arabia, was itself history-making. The passenger list—a group...
September 3, 2020
After ‘Post’ reports, Olympic Committee to probe Iranian wrestler’s execution
The International Olympic Committee told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday following a series of reports in the Post that the organization plans to confront the Islamic Republic of Iran about its slated execution...
September 3, 2020
Ex US intel head urges Olympics to probe Iran’s execution of wrestler
The former US acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell on Wednesday urged the organizers of the Olympics to intervene in the slated execution of an Iranian national champion wrestler. “The...
September 3, 2020
U.S. Needs a New ICC Strategy
The State Department announced sanctions yesterday on two senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in an “unjust and illegitimate investigation” of alleged war crimes...
September 2, 2020
China’s Military Has Global Ambitions
For the past 20 years, the Department of Defense has produced a report for Congress on the military power of the People’s Republic of China. Much has changed during that time. China’s military capabilities...
September 2, 2020
Protection from China’s Comprehensive National Power Requires Comprehensive National Defense
Those trying to describe China’s strategy often invoke the two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Art of War. But some more recent sources might be helpful as well – in particular documents looking at...
September 2, 2020
Iran Nuclear Challenge Looms for the Next U.S. President
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reached an agreement with Iran last week for the IAEA to inspect two of Tehran’s alleged nuclear sites. According to the IAEA’s director-general, Rafael...
September 2, 2020
Justice Department Provides Roadmap to Escalate Pressure on North Korean Cybercrime
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint last week seeking the authority to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts linked to North Korean cyberheists. This DOJ action not only further exposes North...
September 2, 2020
The battle for Belarus
It was once thought probable, if not inevitable, that from the ashes of the U.S.S.R. would arise liberal democracies. But few Soviet republics have become real republics. Belarus has seemed a particularly...
September 2, 2020
The Time for Cyber Insurance
September 1, 2020
Over the Black Sea, Moscow Escalates Its Military Provocations
Following a major North Atlantic Treaty Organization bomber exercise, two Russian Su-27 fighters conducted a reckless intercept of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber in international airspace over the Black Sea...
September 1, 2020
Iran imposes double execution on champion wrestler for peacefully protesting regime
Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous...
September 1, 2020
Iranian Laborers Need Our Help
With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...
August 31, 2020
Iran’s Multiethnic Society Explains Why Tehran Fears Democracy
The twentieth century was not kind to multiethnic empires. During that time, most of the world’s population transitioned from subjects to citizens. And, in most of the empires where a non-majority group...
August 31, 2020
Confronting Iran Before the November Election
The next two months before the November election are critical to the fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear and regional ambitions. The Trump administration must continue its maximum...
August 29, 2020
How Kiribati was lost to China
While China builds a fish plant that gives jobs to I-Kiribati in Kiribati, Australia promotes a scheme where young men and women leave their families behind to work temporary low skilled jobs that Australians...
August 29, 2020
Iran and Turkey sing from the same sheet of music against Israel-UAE rapprochement
“The bowl that’s hotter than the soup” is a popular Persian expression describing a person more invested in others’ affairs than a source of authority on those affairs. It is also a fitting idiom...
August 28, 2020
Hamas Proxy Launches Incendiary Balloons at Israel, Again
The Hamas proxy Humat al-Aqsa (HAA) published a video this week claiming responsibility for sending incendiary balloons into Israel from Gaza. HAA openly acknowledges its arson attacks as part of a campaign...
August 28, 2020
Lessons for the Pacific From The European Deterrence Initiative
Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” While Franklin was certainly not thinking of national security policy, the United States would be wise to apply the...
August 27, 2020
Why Isn’t Seoul Amplifying the Voices of North Korean Escapees?
North Korea demolished its side of a joint inter-Korean liaison office in June to express its outrage over an anti-regime leaflet campaign led by defectors in South Korea. Since then, Seoul’s leadership...
August 27, 2020
On the Issue of Chinese Malign Influence, Both Trump and Biden are Right
With even fewer weeks until the first ballots are cast in the 2020 election, both President Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Joe Biden have finally agreed on something—China’s...
August 26, 2020
Trump Tries to Have It Both Ways on ‘Endless Wars’
During a press briefing alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi on Aug. 20, President Donald Trump defended the limited U.S. military presence in Iraq. “We’re down to a very small number...
August 26, 2020
Ron Dermer on Israel in a Changing Middle East
August 26, 2020
Debunking the Legal Argument Against a U.S. Snapback
The United States sent a letter to the UN Security Council last week alleging that Iran was in “significant non-performance” of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint...
August 26, 2020
State Department Calls Out Erdogan’s Hosting of Hamas Terrorists
The State Department registered its strong objection yesterday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hosting of two Hamas leaders in Istanbul on August 22. This is the first time the State Department...
August 26, 2020
In the Era of U.S. Energy Abundance: The Role of the Caspian Region in U.S. Policy
For most of the last fifty years, international energy policy has been a major focus of U.S. foreign and national security policy.1 Washington has viewed ensuring the energy security of its allies—especially...
August 26, 2020
Lebanon may be broken beyond repair
Earlier this month, two days after a catastrophic explosion in Beirut’s port, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived on the scene, wearing a black mourning tie and a face mask, his shirt sleeves rolled...
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