From Austin Bay: When COVID-19 struck Iran, the ayatollahs followed the same script. They lied and denied, and the contagion began to kill. Pompeo’s insinuation that the regime harmed its own people had a factual basis. The day before he … Continue reading →
Iran and Turkey have been dealing with some adversity lately: Israel’s two most formidable adversaries – Iran and Turkey – both came up short in their quests for regional domination, and Israel is reaping the rewards of their losses. Two … Continue reading →
In a recent thread, a discussion of Obama’s Iran policy came up. Here’s one remark: Obama’s brave new idea amounted to surrendering to an enemy. His method was to re-brand them as a non-enemy, without any clear reasoning as far … Continue reading →
Jonathan Schanzer writes on ending Iran’s fictions: Soleimani’s killing was, without question, the most consequential act of Trump’s presidency. It didn’t just punish Iran for the action of its proxies. After decades of the U.S. letting the Islamic Republic get … Continue reading →
From the stable genius a few days ago: The noble people of Iran—who love America—deserve a government that's more interested in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect. Instead of leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders … Continue reading →
Iran’s not been having a great week. This could end up being a big deal, re the Iranian Deal: Germany, France and the United Kingdom have launched a formal dispute mechanism against Iran which could end up putting international sanctions … Continue reading →
There are now reports that Iranian demonstrators have been fired on, tear gassed, and beaten by the those in charge of riot control. It’s hard to know the extent of this, and the Tehran chief of police has denied it, … Continue reading →
…about its takedown of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 was this: [Ukainian security official] Danilov said Iran had no choice but to admit to shooting down the plane because the facts had become apparent to Ukrainian experts on the ground and … Continue reading →
Iran finally admits what everyone already knew: that it shot down Flight 752. Iran says it was due to “human error.” And predictably, Iran also takes some talking points from the western left and accuses Trump of being the real … Continue reading →
I guess their lies had gotten too preposterous, and Iran authorities figured it would be worse to keep denying it than to finally admit it: Iranian military officials have admitted that the country “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing … Continue reading →
I’d never heard of Susan Hennessey before last night. Then I saw, via a link on Instapundit, that she’d tweeted this about this about the tragic shoot-down by Iran of a Ukrainian plane taking off from Tehran airport: 176 completely … Continue reading →
Some people have advanced a theory to explain Iran’s failure to do damage to US personnel in Iraq in this latest attack: the Iranians missed on purpose. Well, maybe. But others strongly disagree: The top US general made clear Wednesday … Continue reading →