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Posted by Anne Segal on January 12, 2013 19 Comments

Yesterday the U.S. State Department for the first time mentioned American pastor Saeed Abedini, who has been imprisoned in Iran since September 2012 for speaking out about his Christian views and developing a network of underground churches. While family and friends of the pastor, who...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 21, 2012 12 Comments

I don't have a lot of time today because I'm working on something, but I did want to take note of the latest "non-leak leak maybe who knows" regarding supposed direct negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program. The NY Times reports: The United States and Iran...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 27, 2012 16 Comments

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York today, using a drawing of a bomb as a visual aid to express the Iranian nuclear program. He drew a red line where he believes the UN should intervene. Netanyahu: I brought a...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 26, 2012 9 Comments

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in town to follow President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly, met with Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan along with peace activists and other members of "Abrahamic religions" on Tuesday evening. While both the U.S. and Israel delegations, among others, boycotted...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2012 14 Comments

News just breaking, details to follow: According to initial reports, an Israeli tour bus was attacked at the Sarafovo International Airport in the Bulgarian vacation city of Bourgas. A Bulgarian website reported that there were multiple casualties in a bomb explosion. Army Radio reported that at least...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2012 12 Comments

Some flee the sinking ship.  Via Times of Israel: Manaf Tlas, one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s closest friends and most trusted military colleagues, who is also the son of the Assad regime’s former long-serving defense minister, has defected from the Assad regime and fled to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2012 16 Comments

There seems to be a change in Syria, a worsening of the situation for Assad. I can't tell if this is the turning point, a turning point, or just a bump in Assad's road to staying in power with the military help of Iran, Hezbollah...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 13 Comments

With so much going on in the domestic political arena, it's easy for attention to get distracted from the Iranian-Hezollah-Russian attempt to keep Bashar Assad in power. Other than when there is a heavy one-day body count, Syria is not in the U.S. news media radar. This...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 01, 2012 33 Comments

Have you noticed?  The NY Times seems to be getting an awful lot of inside information lately on how tough Obama has been in the war on terror and Iran. First it was the expansive story about drone warfare, and now about Stuxnet: From his first months...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2012 40 Comments

This is a little scary, particularly if it were put in the wrong hands. Via The Times of Israel: A new, unprecedented computer virus called “Flame” (or “sKyWIper”) has hit Iran, the West Bank, and other Middle Eastern locations. It is already considered one of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2012 19 Comments

It looks like Obama is going to get the "grand bargain" which has been the point of U.S. policy towards Iran since the Obama administration stood silently as Iranians took to the streets in June 2009. The grand bargain theory assures the Iranian theocracy's continued control over not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2012 0 Comments

Dick Lugar's record on Iran (and Middle East policy in general) has not received as much attention as other Lugar failures, such as his vouching for Obama's foreign policy credentials just three weeks before the 2008 election. Lugar consistently has shown what generously could be characterized as wishful thinking about negotiations with the Iranian...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2012 3 Comments

Dick Lugar touts his foreign policy expertise and influence, something which Brian Bolduc at National Review today finds is suspect. One thing Lugar does not tout is that he joined Harry Reid in 2007 in announcing that the surge in Iraq was not working and should be stopped. Reid's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2012 17 Comments

I'll have more on this as the date approaches, but anti-Israel groups in Arab countries and the West are planning a "Global March on Jerusalem" on March 30, which will include a planned rush at Israel's borders. The Free Beacon has background, March Madness: The Iranian regime...

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