Middle East Political and Information Network
March 18, 2025 Dear MEPIN Readers, Please watch this comprehensive up-to-the-day analysis of President Trump’s disruptive, unpredictable influence on the Middle East and willingness to use force. Topics range from…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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. ·…
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,…
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…
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…