Barbara Slavin writes in The American Conservative (abridged): Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has pleaded for medical supplies and a suspension of American sanctions to allow Iran to more effectively combat the virus. So far, however, support for Iran has come mainly from the country that was the source of the pandemic—China. It would be a true silver […]

The killing by drone of General Soleimani is not only a blow to Iran’s theocratic efforts to assert its power across the Middle East, explains Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ. President Trump also did Latin America a big favor with the death of “a hero of hemispheric criminality.” Soleimani’s Friends America’s Enemies The dead […]

Will Iranians rise up to change their leaders? Dov Fischer suggests at The American Spectator that it may be time to put more economic pressure on Iran’s leaders. He writes (abridged): I am unalterably opposed to sending American servicemen and women into another intractable foreign adventure. I oppose American adventurism and regime change from outside. […]

At The National Interest, Ali Demirdas outlines a scary possible future for U.S./Iranian relations. Demirdas sees a “protracted and highly elaborate American Iranian proxy war that very well may transcend the Middle East.” He writes (abridged): The assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani has shocked the world. Qassim Suleimani was considered the second most prominent […]

In his response to the Iranian missile attacks, President Trump on Wednesday used strong but conciliatory remarks: “Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned,” Trump also announced unspecified “additional punishing economic sanctions” while the U.S. considers other responses to Iran’s attacking U.S. bases in Iraq. Trump’s goal, […]

In his speech on the Iranian attack of U.S. military facilities in Iraq last night, President Trump called Soleimani the world’s top terrorist, called on the other signatory nations of the JCPOA to abandon that deal and put pressure on Iran for a new one, urged other NATO members to get more involved in the […]

Joe Biden, on Tuesday, delivered remarks on President Trump’s strike against General Qassem Soleimani. The former VP “wrapped himself tightly” in Barack Obama’s Iran policy, reports the WSJ. (Biden) went on to offer a potted history of the Middle East B.T.—before Trump—when Iran was peaceable, its nuclear ambitions vanquished, and “there was a united front […]