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Iran: “Trump must remember a cardinal rule: If we reward aggression, we’ll get more of it”

JNS Submitting to Islamist bullies won’t make America great again by Clifford D. May September 22, 2019 John Bolton’s sudden departure from the White House last week cheered progressives who believe America has no enemies, just friends whose grievances we’ve … Continue reading

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“How Iran makes war in the Middle East while turning U.S. foreign policy into an extension of partisan American politics”

TABLET MAG Team Iran by Lee Smith September 20, 2019 It wouldn’t seem hard for anyone remotely interested in the fate of the planet to draw at least one clear lesson from last Saturday’s Iranian strikes on Saudi Arabia: There … Continue reading

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“Macron has done as much or more than any other European country to favor the Iranian regime”

GATESTONE France: Macron Sides with Iran’s Mullahs by Guy Millière September 19, 2019 …The French officials act and speak as if the Iranian regime was totally honorable, and as if they did not discern the obvious: that the Iranian regime … Continue reading

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John Bolton “acted as a break on the president’s neo-isolationism. The future of diplomacy with North Korea, the Taliban and even Tehran now hangs in the balance”

JNS With Bolton gone, will Trump make a deal with Iran? by Jonathan Tobin September 10, 2019 Perhaps it was as much about personalities as policy. The notoriously brusque and hard-driving John Bolton was always an awkward fit as National … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens on Iran Deal: Further proof that “Iran was in violation of the nuclear deal from the moment it was signed”

NEW YORK TIMES What Was Iran Hiding in a Warehouse in Turquz Abad? by Bret Stephens Sept 5, 2019 Reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency don’t usually make for riveting reading, so you may have missed last Friday’s latest, soporifically headlined … Continue reading

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An Iran story the media has little interest in reporting: “Barack Obama eventually fired the storied Marine general for what Mattis believes were his insistent warnings about the Iranian threat”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER ‘Act of war’: Mattis says Obama’s inept response to Cafe Milano bomb plot ’emboldened’ Iran by Kelly Jane Torrance September 4, 2019 Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he predicted years ago that Iran would escalate its provocations … Continue reading

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“NYT exposé reveals extent of Netanyahu-Obama rift on stopping Iranian nukes; PM himself tells paper he’d ‘unequivocally’ have ordered strike in 2012 if cabinet had backed him”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel said again mulling raid on Iran; thinks Trump, unlike Obama, won’t oppose by Michael Bachner September 4, 2019 Israeli officials are currently considering the possibility of conducting a military strike on Iran, with or without the … Continue reading

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Bibi unable to get hold of Trump to convince him not to meet with top Tehran diplomat Zarif at G7

TIMES OF ISRAEL Netanyahu said to have ‘frantically’ tried to reach Trump over Iran talks fears by Staff August 30, 2019 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urgently tried to dissuade US President Donald Trump from meeting with Iran’s foreign minister, … Continue reading

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FDD’s Mark Dubowitz: “There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about the Iranian foreign minister, who is now threatening our think tank”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Stop Indulging Javad Zarif by Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht Aug. 29, 2019 …The Islamic Republic isn’t the first dictatorship to try to intimidate think tanks and scholars. And Mr. Zarif is hardly an all-powerful figure … Continue reading

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“So it is war between Israel and Iran, prosecuted over the ruins of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. But it won’t necessarily stay that way”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Iran-Israel War Is Here by Jonathan Spyer Aug. 27, 2019 Israel and Iran are at war. Israeli strikes this week in southern Syria, western Iraq and eastern Lebanon—and possibly even Beirut—confirm it. This war is a … Continue reading

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