A year of conflict in the Middle East has destroyed the foreign-policy approach of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His strategy was always implausible, but its collapse has led Iran to the brink of its first international war since […]
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History will show the consequences of Khamenei’s decision to save face. Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu/Getty October 2, 2024, 6:46 AM ET Iran’s attack on Israel yesterday evoked a sense of déjà vu. On April 13, too, Iran targeted Israel with hundreds of
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At the center of current conflicts in the Middle East is a long-running staring contest between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. And Netanyahu seems to have calculated that, even if Israel moves ferociously against
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Iran’s newish president and foreign minister could hardly be more different in demeanor. President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks informally, often goes off script, and loves to crack jokes. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, a career diplomat who earned his Ph.D. in Britain,
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Even by the standards of the American far right, Tucker Carlson’s airing of Holocaust-revisionist views on his popular show on the platform X seemed to hit a new low. On an episode that streamed September 2, Carlson gushed at his
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In the months before the Democratic National Convention came to Chicago, the city prepared for massive protests against U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Pundits raced to draw parallels with 1968, when anti-war protesters overshadowed the Democratic convention and
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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Ismail Haniyeh should have known that Tehran wasn’t a safe place for him to be. What has Israel ever wanted to do on Iranian territory that it hasn’t been
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Iran lobbed hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel in April in the hope of changing the rules of engagement: Israel had struck an Iranian consulate in Damascus, and Tehran sought to deter any further such direct actions against its
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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. The administrations of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden have all shared one common foreign-policy desire: to get out of the quagmire of the Middle East and focus
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