The threat of Iranian proxy militias in Iraq
Supporters of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces offer condolences over the deaths of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and others, outside the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad on May 20, 2024. Thaier…
Time to rethink the borders of the Middle East map
Courtesy Photo Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their…
Watch Dr Mandel on Iraqi Kurdish TV discuss Syria, Turkey, the Kurds, ISIS, the US, and Iran
Dear MEPIN Readers, Will the US abandon its Kurdish allies, the Kurdish lead SDF, in northwest Syria, like we abandoned the Afghans to the Taliban? They fought and died to…
Watch Dr. Eric Mandel interview on Iraqi TV explaining Iranian influence
Dear MEPIN Readers, An Iraqi drone attack killed two Israeli soldiers and injured seventeen. The videos below are an interview I did with Iraqi TV, in English and Kurdish, before…
US must reevaluate Mideast ties with terror enabling countries
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden meets with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Sharm el-Sheikh, in 2022. ‘The US has leverage with Egypt, as Washington gives Cairo over a billion dollars…
Dr Eric Mandel on ILTV discussing the security situation in Judea and Samaria
Today on ILTV, I discussed the security situation in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Israel just completed its most extensive operation in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. ·…
How historical choices affect Israel’s current multi-front war
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo,…
Iraqi TV interview with Dr. Mandel on VP Kamala Harris’ Middle East policy and the US elections
Dear MEPIN Readers, On Monday, Kurdistan 24 interviewed me about the American Presidential electoral process, President Harris’s Middle East foreign policy, and how it would differ from President Biden’s. The…
Interview with Kurdish Media Feb. 2, 2024
Dear MEPIN Readers, My interview with Rudaw Kurdish media in Iraq centered on: The first video is just the English answers. The second video is in Kurdish. As always, please…
Dr. Mandel Interview on Kurdistan24
(Erbil, Kurdistan – Jan. 17, 2024) My interview today was with another Iraqi TV station to discuss the Iranian attack on the Kurdish capital of Erbil that killed at least…