Rumors about Rami Makhlouf’s asset seizures might be signaling divisions between Russia and Iran in Syria.
Is it 2003 all over again – but with Iran and Iraq on the same side this time?
Are Boris and Donald the new Blair and Bush? Movements of the UK’s handful of destroyers suggest they might be.
Nothing other than direct talks can offer a prospect for a solution to the crisis.
In the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can worry tankers and warships alike.
Oil’s enduring sway in U.S. policy in the Middle East
Power vacuums in the Pentagon as a pattern of attacks across the Middle East look suspiciously like a demonstration of Iranian ‘irregular’ power.
Iran could turn to asymmetric warfare if it lost its primary armed forces; and the British couldn’t but help US military embedded in its territory.
History suggests that attempts to exclude such regional powers produce instability, or worse.
The Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
The sanctions force Iranians to suspend their struggle against their abusive father, fearing that the interfering strangers would manipulate their demands and grievances.
The US is trying to create a Middle Eastern coalition to undermine Iran. They are sixteen years too late.
