Iran held parliamentary elections on Friday. Voter turnout may have been at a record low. These were the first elections held since the 2022 crackdown on nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Mahsa Amini died in September 2022 after she was beaten and arrested by Iran’s morality police. […]
The curious suspension of Robert Malley grows even more curious — and perhaps just as curious as how he got hired at all, if not more. Joe Biden’s special envoy to Iran got mysteriously suspended last spring by the State Department, but the White House never informed Congress of it. The Tehran Times somehow acquired and […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A bill adding tax credits for research and development from energy and tech companies along with banning tax credits and incentives for countries of concern passed the Tennessee House Government Operations Committee on Monday. A fiscal note on House Bill 1843 noted it would cost […]
Is anyone impressed with Joe Biden’s attempts to set a deterrent against attacks on American positions in the Middle East? Despite a string of attacks on military installations and Western shipping, the Biden administration acted as though the attack on our base in Jordan that killed three soldiers came as a surprise. It then took […]
The State Department, one of the uglier buildings in Washington, D.C., has all but relocated to Dearborn, Michigan, at least as far as the Israeli-Hamas conflict goes. Sure, there are dozens and dozens of career staffers at Foggy Bottom that are boycotting Uber Eats and Door Dash for lunch, participating in a hunger strike to […]
After Iran-backed militants killed three American soldiers and wounded dozens of others with a drone strike, Joe Biden promised that we would “strike back.” We still haven’t seen that response, but we’ve been told that it’s on the way. Meanwhile, the Iranians do not appear to be backing down at all. In fact, they’re promising […]
The New York Times has an analysis written by Peter Baker that exposes just how feckless the Biden Administration has been in dealing with Iranian proxies. The lede makes it blindingly obvious that Biden and his administration knew that American troops would get killed. Yet their responses to the nearly 200 attacks on Americans since […]
Alternate histories are always speculative, so I cannot prove my assertion. But let’s face it, most rational people know–even if they won’t admit it–that Biden has been extraordinarily weak when it comes to foreign policy. Even in Ukraine, where he has the best claim to being assertive in his foreign policy, Biden’s evident weakness in […]
I wind up writing about John Kirby a lot for some reason. As the spokesman for the National Security Council and shadow White House Press Secretary (he always winds up taking the tough questions when important issues come up), he has a lot of opportunity to defend Biden policies and, hence, a lot of opportunities […]
For quite some time now we’ve been keeping a close eye on the border region between Pakistan and India. The two nuclear powers have never gotten along well, with frequent skirmishes breaking out over disputed territory. But as of yesterday, Pakistan has experienced a flare-up with a different neighbor. Iran has launched attacks on what […]
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