ẹ Syria: Looking For Ways Out Of The Maze - Russia Has Been Forced To Face The Limits Of Its Power

ẹ Iran: Speaking Swedish, Acting North Korean - The New Khomeinist Regime's Ideological Emptiness

ẹ Trump, The Ayatollah And The Wizard Of Oz: A Cyber-space Bomb Against Khamenei

ẹ Iran Nuclear Problem Must Be Re-Visited: The 'Great Satan' Or, In Corbyn's Lexicon, 'Imperialist Bully'

ẹ Iran: Anatomy Of A National Revolt - The Change That May Be Delayed But Won't Be Denied

ẹ Behind the Latest Protests in Iran: Bringing Iran Out Of The Historic Impasse Created By Khomeini

ẹ 2017 - The Year of The Rohingya: The Victims Of Own Central Government And "National" Army

ẹ Where Russian And Iranian Aircraft Carriers Clash

ẹ The Mullahs Overplay The Military Card: Khamenei Beating The Drums Of War

ẹ The Mullahs Overplay The Military Card: Khamenei Beating The Drums Of War

ẹ ISIS, Missiles And Iranian Military In Yemen: Who Speaks For Tehran?

ẹ Lebanon: Is Cheat-and-Retreat Back on the Menu?

ẹ Inside Saudi Arabia: The Usual Suspects and a New Method

ẹ How Iran Tried to Turn Arab States into Fading Ghosts

ẹ Iran And 'The Great Satan': A 4-Decades Old Saga

ẹ The Iran Deal: The Dog's Dinner Obama Dished Out

ẹ Putin's Quest For a Monroe Doctrine

ẹ Putin Faces Growing Problems over Support for Assad in Syria

ẹ Lessons Trump Can Learn From Obama

ẹ Universal Language of Poetry with an Iraqi Accent

ẹ In Paris: Another Vanity Confab on Palestine

ẹ Obama and the Palestinian Fig Leaf

ẹ 2016 - The Year of Aleppo?

ẹ 2016 - The Year of Aleppo?

ẹ With Trump the Pendulum Swings Away From Obama's Schemes

ẹ Iran's Press Change Tune on the ''Nuke Deal''

ẹ In Aleppo, Russia Continues a Long History

ẹ No ''Trump'' Sign on Obama's Ziggurat

ẹ Rouhani Tries to Salvage the Nuclear Deal With Obama

ẹ Liberating Mosul: The 5 Weaknesses of the Battle Plan

ẹ Trump May Find Nothing More to Offer Putin

ẹ Dear Francois, You're Wrong on Syria

ẹ Trump as President isn't Good News for Bashar Al-Assad

ẹ Trump Promises New Start in US Foreign Policy

ẹ Trump Wins With Five ''Nos''

ẹ New Books on the Kingdom: Understanding and Misunderstanding

ẹ Michel Aoun in Iranian Media: from Warlord to Man of Peace

ẹ Moscow, Tehran Ponder Next Moves in Aleppo

ẹ Clinton or Trump - Better or Less Bad?

ẹ The Middle East Between Neo-Ottomans and Neo Safavids

ẹ US Election Day - Come Back America

ẹ Iran Fears Being Side-lined by Russia in Syria

ẹ How Trump Turned High Politics into Reality Television

ẹ The ''Family'' Obama Says He Will Miss on Leaving the White House

ẹ Trump Has Played a Useful Role

ẹ JASTA: 3 Scenarios for a Disputed Text

ẹ How to Cuddle the Russian Bear

ẹ JASTA: Misconceived and Stillborn, Can it Survive?

ẹ Fate of Whistle-blower Divides American Media

ẹ Last Premier before Iran's Revolution Passes Away

ẹ Iran - Rich and Submissive or Poor and Pure?

ẹ Syria Policy in Flux in Washington, Moscow and Tehran

ẹ US Election - the Unloved Known and the Feared Unknown

ẹ The Mullah, the Prince and the Taqiyah Trap

ẹ US Media Learning to Live with the Trump Nightmare

ẹ Trump Too Leads a ''Resentment Rainbow''

ẹ America and Obama's Resentment Rainbow

ẹ Turkish Military Presence in Syria Worries Iran

ẹ Syria - Why Assad Has Become Irrelevant

ẹ Iran and Russia: Old Enemies, New Allies

ẹ Iran Needs to Bury Khomeini's Ghost

ẹ Iran: Russia's New Aircraft Carrier in the Mideast

ẹ The 'Satan' And Ayatollahs: A Year Later - The Diplomatic Deception of the Century

ẹ The Human Body as a Weapon of War: A Discourse Leaving Most Muslims Indifferent Or Annoyed

ẹ Americans Facing a Hobson's Choice

ẹ Turkey - Towards a ''One and a Half Party'' System

ẹ Iran's Great Storyteller Dies in Silence

ẹ Turkey - The Clash of the Two Parties of the Past

ẹ Turkey: Erdogan Wins First Round of a Long Fight

ẹ The Exile That Might Derail Erdogan's Grand Design

ẹ Terrorism - No One is Safe Anywhere

ẹ Britain - Chasing the Brexit Mirage

ẹ Iran Rethinks Syrian Fantasies: Al-Assad Swallowing Unspecified Bitter Pill

ẹ The Riddle That is Donald Trump

ẹ Iran- Why Mullahs Need the Old Jaw-shutter

ẹ Could Tehran Face Charges of Mercenary Crimes?

ẹ Tighten Our Belts For President Trump?

ẹ Iran's New Map of Funerals: The Syrian Adventure Is A Costly Exercise In Tragic Futility

ẹ Iraq - Turmoil Between Two Empires

ẹ Tehran Calls Up Retired Gen. Rezaei After Losses in Aleppo

ẹ Hologram Presidency May Not End With Obama

ẹ Iran - The ''Golden Age'' That Was Not

ẹ Iran - Why Has the Obama Gamble Failed?

ẹ Tehran Warns Moscow on Change Of Course in Syria

ẹ Upper Qarabagh: The ''Black Garden'' of Conflicts

ẹ The Challenges of a Split Personality

ẹ Syrian Refugees - the Myth and Reality of a Brand

ẹ Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines

ẹ Aleppo: A City That Refuses to Die

ẹ Russia in Syria - Stated and Unstated Goals

ẹ Syria: Iranian Policy Caught Between Russia and Turkey

ẹ Turkey - That's the Press, Baby!

ẹ US Presidential Election: A Bumpy Road Ahead

ẹ When the Question About Iran Has a Japanese Answer

ẹ Iran: A Setback for Hardliners and Little Cheer for Reformists

ẹ Three Fires That Burn Syria

ẹ Where More Mullahs Mean Less Religion

ẹ Syria: Rival Powers and Their Second Choice

ẹ Iranian Elections: the Chinese Model Vs. the North Korean Model

ẹ Iran- the Revolution That Produced Only Losers

ẹ Iran: Disputed Elections - the Media Faces a Challenge

ẹ The Ayatollah Looks East and Finds a Void

ẹ The Iran ''Deal'' - A Tale of Double Deception

ẹ Russia- The Rooster That Putin Should Hear

ẹ Is Western Media Showing ''Saudiphobia''

ẹ Saudi Arabia and the Iranian Schizophrenia

ẹ Iran - Dark Clouds on the Economic Horizon

ẹ US Presidential Election - the Right to Make the Wrong Choice

ẹ Syria - a Poisoned Gift for Putin and Erdogan

ẹ Khamenei And An Offer That Can Be Refused

ẹ For Putin, Big Sortie in Tehran: Like Shiite Iran, Russia Developed A Tradition Of Martyr-worship

ẹ Iran's Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles

ẹ Obama's MidEast Policy: An Obituary By John Kerry

ẹ In Tehran: A Hot Potato Nobody Wants To Touch

ẹ Iran's Trojan Army Makes A Splash In Iraq

ẹ Why Is The ''Right War'' Taking A Wrong Turn?

ẹ The Risks of Having Giant Friends: Russia Propping Up Assad Undermining The Very Interests It Wants To Protect

ẹ Syria And The World—Victory Or Compromise?

ẹ The Ayatollah Dreamed It, Obama Delivers It: Pax Americana - End of America

ẹ No, Bashar Al-Assad Is No Joseph Stalin: Regardless Of His Personal Qualities, Or Lack Of Them

ẹ Hubris Puts Iran In Danger: Tehran's Series Of Bluffs Thanks To Obama's Weird Behavior

ẹ The ''Candy'' the Mullahs Gave to Obama

ẹ The Supreme Guide and the Substance of the Angels

ẹ When Obama Adopts the Mullahs' Style

ẹ Syria And The World — Victory Or Compromise? The Spectrum Of Assad's Russia And The Mullahs Of Tehran

ẹ As Iran Builds Naval Power, It Looks To Oman As The Big Prize

ẹ When the Ayatollah Dictates Poetry: The Persian Classical Style Of Panegyrics For Despotic Rulers

ẹ The Iran "Deal"—A Fragile Arrangement

ẹ An American Scenario for Taming the Mullahs of Tehran

ẹ Iran Between Two Fantasies: More Mischief At Home And Abroad

ẹ Iran Nuclear Deal: Winners and Losers: Tehran World Capital For Almost All Terrorist Organizations

ẹ Obama's Potemkin Villages: Including Burma, Cuba, Ukraine And Syria

ẹ Nuclear Accord Intensifies Power Struggle In Tehran

ẹ Is Iran Now Under the Tutelage of the Six World Powers?

ẹ After Iran Nuclear Deal—Best and Worst Case Scenarios

ẹ A Symphony of Parallel Tragedies: Iran Nuclear Saga—No Deal Yet

ẹ Khamenei Tries To Force Generals Back Into Line

ẹ The "Most Dangerous Woman" in America: New York Brunette, The Queen Of Conspiracies

ẹ How The New Erdoğan Killed The Old One: When Turkey Went To The Polls To Vote

ẹ Russia And The Danger Of Conspiracy Theories

ẹ When Israel Vetoed A Plot To Kill Khomeini In Paris

ẹ Why Iran Cannot Deliver What Obama Hopes: Buying The Carpet That Tehran Is Willing To Sell

ẹ Why Is Rouhani Coddling The Military? The Strategy Of Normalization With The ''Great Satan''

ẹ Europe's Feeble Efforts To 'Punish' Israel

ẹ Has Obama Made Agreement With Iran More Difficult? Back To The Original Baseline

ẹ Why The Lebanese Scenario Won't Work In Yemen: The Houthis Have Exaggerated Their Gun Power

ẹ Iran's Nuclear Drama: From ''Death to America'' to ''Anxious Hearts''

ẹ Iran's Nuclear Drama: From ''Death to America'' to ''Anxious Hearts''

ẹ Talkers Vs. Deciders in Iran's Foreign Policy: Who Is In Charge Of Iran's Foreign Policy?

ẹ France's Uncertain Enemy: The Blame Game Is Extended With Another Item - Islamophobia

ẹ Iran And The Yemeni Hornet's Nest: The Latest Nation To Embrace The Khomeinist Ideology

ẹ The Mullahs' Contrasting World Visions: A Composite Identity - Business And Corruption

ẹ Iran and the Pro-Mullah Lobby's Arguments: Nothing But An Illusion

ẹ Iran's Suspect Deal in the Making: The Mullahs Devious Tactics Of Taqiyah (Obfuscation), Kitman (Dissimulation), And Istitar (Pulling A Curtain)

ẹ Publisher Who Defied Khomeini Remembered In London: The Sudden Death of Parviz Isfahani

ẹ Like Father, Like Son: Bashar Al-Assad, The Man ''Re-elected'' President Of Syria With 99.9 Percent Of The Vote June 2014

ẹ ISIS's Syrian Haven Safe From US Bombs—for Now

ẹ Putin, A Prisoner Of The Past: Having Read History The Wrong Way

ẹ Iran Is Not China And Obama Is Not Nixon: Obama's Appeasement Policy

ẹ Iran Must Confront Its Past To Move Forwards: Khomeini Has Become A Symbol Of What Went Wrong With Iran's Wayward Revolution

ẹ Iran's Press: The Blindfolded Racehorse - The Khomeinist Ideology, The Global Hezbollah Movement, Classical Anti-Americanism, Anti-Arab And Anti-Israeli Shibboleths, And Pipedreams

ẹ Saudi Arabia's Greatest Asset Is Stability: Riyadh Is Prepared To Assume A More Active Role In The International Arena

ẹ The Four Players in the Syrian Arena: Regardless Of The Rumors Kerry Is Spreading, Assad Has Not Won And The Struggle For A Free Syria Is Far From Over

ẹ Iran: A Tale of Two Poets -- Poets Moshfeq Kashani And Hashem Shaabani Received Very Different Treatment From The Authorities

ẹ Iran's Dangerous Game In Yemen: The Saudis Feed The Yemenis And The Iranians Arm Them

ẹ To Defeat ISIS, Save Syria: ISIS Is An Effect, Syria Is The Cause - In Other Words, It's Syria, Stupid!

ẹ Panetta Fails To Lift The Lid On Obama: And What If, Obama Secretly Believes That America...

ẹ The Struggle To Succeed Khamenei Has Already Begun: In Their Quest For Supreme Power, Rafsanjani And Mesbah-Yazdi

ẹ A War of Sectarians, Not a Sectarian War: Shirazi, Like Khamenei, Political Not Religious

ẹ Gaza And The Curse Of Half-Finished Wars: Why Did The War Break Out At This Time?

ẹ Barzani Flying a Kite: Sunni And Shi'ite, Sufi And "Ghulat" Gambit

ẹ No Cavalry to the Rescue: Any Commitment Of Iranian Troops Could Make Situation Worse

ẹ No Cavalry to the Rescue: Iraq, Iran and America In Real Life

ẹ The Mufti Who Is More Khomeinist Than A Mullah: Assad's Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun

ẹ An Upmarket Jimmy Carter: Repairing The Damage That Obama Is Doing Might Take Even Longer

ẹ When History Ignores a Turning Point: A Series Of Horrible Twists And Turns

ẹ Assad In The Footsteps Of The French: Only The Removal Of The Original Cause Of The Syrian War Could Bring It To An End

ẹ Obama, the Bomb and the Fatwa: The Bizarre Twist, Iran's Ayyatollah And One Barack

ẹ Venezuela And the "Curse of Oil"

ẹ A Living Symbol of the "Turkish Model"

ẹ Geneva II is Preparing for a Bloodbath in Syria

ẹ The "Supreme Guide" and "Unpardonable Sin"

ẹ Russia Seeks A Higher Profile In Sochi

ẹ Rouhani And his "American Boys": Ayatollas And The US Congress

ẹ Two Recipes for Two Constitutions: It Echoed The 19th-century Myth Of "An-Nahda"

ẹ Is Saddam's Ghost Making A Comeback? Maliki Burning His Bridges With The Sunni Community

ẹ Putin Vs. The Black Widows: The Federation's Various Muslim Communities Are Gaining

ẹ The US Is Talking To Iran, But About What? It May Lead To An Even Bigger Conflict In The Future

ẹ A Different Agenda Is Needed For Geneva II: Russia And Iran - Only Ready To Give Assad Money And Arms To Kill More Syrians

ẹ Back To The Great Game: Obama Specializes In Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

ẹ 'Akbar Shah' Attempts To Repeat History: Whatever The Answer, That Strategy Is Doomed

ẹ The Devil Is In More Than The Details: Khomeinist anti-Americanism Only In A Cloak Of Flowery Rhetoric

ẹ Bush, Obama And Teddy's Big Stick: Obama walks like Gary Cooper in High Noon

ẹ Russia's Strategy Is Based On Fear And Fantasy: Putin's Narratives - Conspiracies

ẹ It's The UK Parliament's Perogative: Does The Vote Affect British - US Relations?

ẹ Obama And Putin's Danse Macabre: Obama Fixes "Red Lines" And Talks A Good Talk

ẹ Nasrallah's Dangerous Strategy: He Has Become Entangled In What Sadr Called "Diabolical Schemes"

ẹ Iran's Moment Of Truth: Rafsanjani And Mashaei Wished To Ignore The True Nature Of The Regime

ẹ Tehran Nervous As Election Process Starts: Iranian Sunni Muslims, Believed To Number Around 12 Million, Excluded

ẹ Elections? Yes, If I Like the Results: Mursi's Natural Modesty And Lack Of Charisma May Be Assets In This Exercise

ẹ Washington's Circular Argument On Iran And The Bomb

ẹ The "Cursed Three" and the "Supreme Leader"

ẹ Leaders Who Swim Against The Tide: One Wonders What Thatcher Might Have Thought Of That

ẹ The Art Of Turning Neighbors Into Enemies: The Khomeinist Regime Relations With Azerbaijan

ẹ Egypt: To Fail, Or Not To Fail? That Is The Question

ẹ Iran: A Clash of Religion and Nationalism

ẹ Iraq: How the Republic of Fear was Brought Down

ẹ Iraqis Have a Chance: What Will They Do With It?

ẹ The Mullah Who Could Melt A Snowstorm: Another Of The 200,000 Or So Mullahs Spread Across The Spectrum Of Iranian Life

ẹ Is China Ready For World Leadership? Failure To Pose The Problem Of The Uighurs Represents Another Fault-line

ẹ Hugo Chávez: The Man Who Turned The Light Of Hope On And Off

ẹ Old Elites Fighting Old Wars In Old Ways In Iraq

ẹ The Mullahs And The Ceausescu Syndrome: The Work Of Ahmadinejad's Faction

ẹ Could Behind The Scenes Diplomacy Help In Syria? The End Of The Tunnel More Of An Illusion

ẹ Syria: Is It Time For Military Intervention? The Question, In Syria, People Die

ẹ Iran Supreme Guide Calls On Mursi To Follow Khomeinist Political Model

ẹ Iran: Impossible Talks With The "Great Satan"

ẹ Iran: Old Revolutionaries Say Sorry - The Khomeinist Regime Has Also Led Itself Into A Closed Circle

ẹ Obama's First Term May Prove Good For The Middle East

ẹ Egypt: A Difficult Learning Curve - Trying To Surf To Power On A Wave Of "Street" Anger

ẹ Iran: Embracing The Bear At Last - Many Iranians Still Regard Russia With Suspicion

ẹ Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That The Khomeinist Regime In Tehran Poses

ẹ Iran: The "Fatwa" And Obama's Creative Diplomacy

ẹ Syria: Tragicomic Performance At Damascus Opera

ẹ The Crystal Ball And The Year Of Many Dangers

ẹ Arab Spring: Heading For Reactionary Backlash? 2013 A Measure Of Cautious Optimism

ẹ Iran: Grim Mood As Power Struggle Intensifies - The Khomeinist Regime Fundamental Contradictions

ẹ Egypt: The Dangers Of The Sulk-And-Retreat Strategy

ẹ Egypt: Could Mursi Become Another Khomeini? What Egypt Is Entering Is An "Islamist Winter"

ẹ Turkey: Fresh Hopes For A New Kurdish Policy

ẹ America And The Middle East: The Next Four Years: More Of Obama Era For The Region

ẹ Lebanon: Shi'ites Need A New Strategy - The Assad Regime Hezbollah Has Lost Circle

ẹ Iran: The President Who Woke Up At The Eleventh Hour

ẹ Following The US Election, Pay Attention To China!

ẹ Nasrallah And Yesterday's Hymn Sheet: Talk Of War, Harm Obama And Help Netanyahu

ẹ Syria And Obama's Five Excuses For Inaction: As Bashar al-Assad Continues To Kill Syrians At An Average Rate Of 100 A Day

ẹ A Week Of Disappointments For Tehran: Has The "Countdown" Started Only For Hezbollah?

ẹ Khatami And The Great Iranian Debate: Ahmadinejad - Tehran Train Has No Stop And No Rear-gear!

ẹ The Next Made In Tehran Moderate: Missing Ahmadinejad As Missing Banisadr, Rafsanjani And Khatami

ẹ Putin And Russia's Real Interests In Syria: Bad For Russia And Bad For International Peace And Stability

ẹ China: New Generation Leaders Ponder Global Role - Siding With Russia To Prolong The Bloodshed

ẹ Assad Is Preparing His Defence At The Hague: Assad Risks Finding Himself In Queer Company

ẹ Why Is Tehran Angry With Mursi? No Place For Opposition - Reflect Khamenei's Thinking