History has shown that backing radical Arabic-speaking states or movements to redo the regional order have all ended badly… Continue reading
Presidential candidate Ron Paul has said repeatedly that Iranians hate America because of its role in the 1953 coup overthrowing Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh… Continue reading
Few realize how U.S. policy at the start of the radical Islamist era in Middle East history parallels that… Continue reading
Next month, convicted Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will begin his 27th year in prison, and the Obama administration is displaying… Continue reading
While an analogy doesn’t prove the point, I think that contemporary Iranian thinking is equivalent… Continue reading
I think I’ve made a breakthrough in understanding President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of punishing friends, rewarding enemies, and… Continue reading
There’s nothing like having to explain a complex subject to people to improve one’s own understanding of the issues… Continue reading
This week, Iran’s media have extensively covered the escalating tensions between Iran and India following last week’s announcement by the Indian Central Bank that Iran will not be able to sell oil to India unless… Continue reading
Top Iranian officials announced that they intended to insist on Iran’s demand to gain at least 20 percent of the Caspian Sea waters, and strongly oppose the proposals made by the other littoral countries. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki declared that Iran opposed one-sided treaties concerning the status of the Caspian Sea… Continue reading
In July 1972, the Egyptian President announced that he had asked the Soviet government to withdraw its “advisers” from Egypt. The reason, he said, was that the Soviets had refused his requests for more sophisticated weapons with which to attack Israel… Continue reading
Only once throughout the eighteen years of the Armistice Agreement did any Arab leader challenge the thesis that war alone would bring about the elimination of Israel. There were continual and often acrimonious discussions on the timing of the predestined onslaught on the Jewish state… Continue reading
Communist ideology is directly responsible for crimes against humanity and consciousness of the crimes against humanity committed by the Communist regimes throughout the continent must inform all European minds to the same extent as the Nazi regimes crimes did… Continue reading
The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran’s government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans. Written in 1954 by one of the coup’s chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran’s elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist… Continue reading
Could it really be that the United States spent decades cultivating Islamists? And that it manipulated and double-crossed them, cynically using and misusing them as Cold War allies? And that all of this spawned a force that turned against its sponsor with a vengeance… Continue reading
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