My visit to Saudi Arabia: Observations and Analysis
Published in the January 9, 2023 issue of The Jerusalem Report. Photo: Dr. Mandel with Saudi officials at the Presidency of State Security. Thirty years ago, my colleague and co-author…
Iranian arms transfers through Beirut airport could ignite the Middle East
Photo: Members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah take part in Ashura commemorations in a southern Beirut suburb. Source: Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images, CFR Published in The Hill on December 22, 2022. Earlier this…
President Biden, Sanction the Ayatollah and Support the Iranian Protesters
Published on December 20, 2022 by JNS. The Washington Institute of Near East Policy’s Hanin Ghaddar has written, “The Lebanese, Syrians and Iraqis look today at Iran and feel a…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Resolution Supporting Iranian Protesters
Photo: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Note from Dr. Mandel: Dear MEPIN Readers, I have been working with Iranian activists and US Senate foreign policy staff to help publicize the heroic…
Americans cannot look away from what’s happening in Iran
Photo: Iranian soldiers stand next to Iranian Shahab-3 and Kheibar missiles during a rally marking Jerusalem day in Tehran, on April 29. Source: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Published in The…
How Saudi Arabia Sees Iran and America
Published in The National Interest on November 5, 2022. Image by Reuters. I recently returned from meetings in Saudi Arabia, hoping to bring back some understanding of their perspectives on…
Pushing the Saudis into China’s & Russia’s arms
Published in the Jerusalem Post on October 30, 2022. Photo: US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) sits alongside a photo from the war in Ukraine during a committee…
The US-Saudi ties are more critical than Biden’s spat with the crown prince
Published in the Hill on October 31, 2022. Photo: Dr. Mandel at the Saudi Rasanah International Institute for Iranian Studies with the former Saudi Ambassadors to Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon and…
Is the Biden administration about to put the Abraham Accords at risk?
Published in The Hill on October 16, 2022. Photo: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament in a vote of confidence session for his proposed labor minister…
Watch Last Week’s Webinar with Lt. Col (res.) Sarit Zehavi!
For those of you that asked for a link to the webinar on Iran, the status of the JCPOA, Israeli strategic options, the history of the Iran agreement, Hezbollah and…