Support the Kurds!
by Dr. Laurie Ann Mylroie On Sunday, Massoud Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan, called on the international community to provide arms directly to the Kurdish Regional Government to enable it…
Empty Rhetoric is Fleeting and is Not Leadership
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The inclination to uncontrollable urge for verbal diarrhea, motivated by narcissism and shallow intellectual abilities and not by wisdom and experience, is the ubiquitous attribute…
Xinjiang: China’s Struggle to Sinicize Its Un-Chinese Providence
by Larry Franklin Despite the intense efforts of Beijing to Sinicise Xinjiang, it remains the most un-Chinese of China’s administrative regions and the only one with a majority Muslim population.…
Save Meriam Ibrahim
Obama and the rest of the world need to come to the aid of a Sudanese woman sentenced to death. by Peter Roff It only took about a month, but…
State Dept Promotes Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on ‘Killing of U.S. Soldiers’
by Adam Kredo The State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau promoted on Friday a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder…
National Security Fairy Tales: Iran and the Extremists
by Peter Huessy On December 3, 2007 the US intelligence community released an NIE or National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. A month later, on January 1, 2008, “All the Shah’s…
The Agony of Iran’s Militant Mullahcracy
by Miklos K. Radvanyi On February 1, 1979, the Shi’a cleric, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, flew from his exile in a Paris suburb to Tehran to fill the political vacuum created…
The real Rouhani
The search, now 30 years old, for Iranian “moderates” goes on. Amid the enthusiasm of the latest sighting, it’s worth remembering that the highlight of the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages debacle was…
Turkey: The next Muslim Armageddon?
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi With a single notable exception after World War I, it had always been the unique characteristic of various Turkish states that in times of great…
The Failed Grand Strategy in the Middle East
by Walter Russell Mead In the beginning, the Hebrew Bible tells us, the universe was all “tohu wabohu,” chaos and tumult. This month the Middle East seems to be reverting…
Sphynx in Labor
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In Egypt, nobody wanted military intervention, yet nobody believed in a smooth transition to democracy. For this reason, Egyptians viewed the military as the guarantor…
The Islamic Republic of Iran in Perspective
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Historically, Iran is an ancient civilization but a relatively young Muslim country. The seventh century Arab-Islamic conquest of Persia was and is still viewed…
The Iran Enigma
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi History, in her disposition toward intellectually gifted peoples and nations, appears as fickle as the gods of ancient times were wont to be of…
Changing the Benghazi Talking Points
How they were changed to obscure the truth by Stephen F. Hayes Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi…
Shame on anyone who said Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi was a moderate
by Eric Trager Nobody should have been surprised when Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a “constitutional declaration” on Thursday asserting total political power. This was, after all, the former Muslim…