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Mar 1, 2019, 3:17 PM

Israel is unzipping Iran and Iraq

Israel like many other countries has had a love-hate view of Iran and Iraq over the years. Israel like other countries has never managed to befriend both at the same time. Indeed, others have sought to promoted conflict between...

Feb 12, 2019, 9:35 PM

40 years ago Iran broke relations with Israel

On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Khomeni returned from exile to Iran and following 10 days of violent protests, annually commemorated as the “Ten-Day Dawn,” it was the official end of the 2,500 years of the Persian Empire. On February...

Feb 1, 2019, 11:11 AM

Knesset Elections 2019 will end the Ayatollah

Israel will go to elections for the Knesset and a new government on April 9, 2019. The topic of Israel’s defense has never been a major election campaign issue because all parties in the past have agreed where and...

Jan 1, 2019, 7:14 AM

Will Iran Leave Syria?

Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, the lieutenant commander for the Iranian elite force's political affairs wing has been known to say, ‘Iran has been present in Iraq and Syria at the invitation of the legitimate governments of these countries and...

Dec 3, 2018, 1:11 AM

How could anyone think otherwise about Iran

I am going to quote some sources and let you decide about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) aka the Iranian nuclear deal signed in 2015. In my view these sources provide a picture that can be ignored...

Nov 8, 2018, 8:18 PM

The means of changing Iran

Following my article on August 16, 2018, I need to add to the article “Persian Gulf Sanction Busters” by talking about those who are legitimately exempted from the sanctions. I refer to the sanctions imposed by the USA on...

Oct 14, 2018, 10:40 PM

Iran fears being left out

American sanctions and the potential of an Israeli preventive and preemptive strike gets the usual response of Iranian holler and hollow rhetoric. However, the potential massacre of civilians while trying to retake the last major stronghold of anti-government militants...

Sep 26, 2018, 1:07 PM

American Iranian showdown but no resolution

There has been a war of words ongoing between America and Iran as tension between the two nations has increased since US President Donald Trump pulled out of a nuclear deal with Iran that was struck during the Obama...

Sep 18, 2018, 12:14 AM

Palestinian diplomacy

If you don’t won’t or cannot represent your own nation and if you don’t won’t to or cannot refrain from threatening others especially when in their ally’s country, then you certainly don’t deserve to be considered a diplomat. Keep...

Sep 9, 2018, 2:07 PM

Whither the Arab Spring

Finally, there is a probability that the Arab Spring might be understood. Yes, I believe that the reported impending Battle for Idlib in Syria has a probability of being the deciding battle for ending the last major rebel stronghold...

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Dr Glen Segell is Fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies, University of Haifa.