Middle East Political and Information Network
Published on March 4, 2023 in The National Interest. When most people hear the word intelligence in a political context, they immediately think of clandestine sources, spies, and secret meetings.…
Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP. In this picture released by the Iranian government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of…
Photo: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a press conference with his German counterpart in Istanbul on July 29, 2022. OZAN KOSE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Published on January 17, 2023…
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 year,…
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Photo: US soldiers walk near a rocket launcher missile at Basmaya military base in Baghdad(photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMMED AMEEN) As the new year began and America continued to negotiate with Iran…
PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo One reason Iran can play hardball in nuclear…
Published by Kurdistan 24. This week’s Iraqi parliamentary election has profound implications for American national security interests. Yet the American people and the Biden administration are either uninterested, weary of…
{Previously published by the JNS} U.S. President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes late last week in eastern Syria against the Iranian-controlled militias, Kata’ib Hezbollah and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada. This was in…
{article previously published in The Defense Post written by Seth J. Frantzman and Dr. Eric R. Mandel} At the Black Tiger Base in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq the concerns…