It took far too long, but tough sanctions on Iran have finally arrived. On Monday, the European Union approved an oil embargo on Iran that will take full effect in July. Other countries are reducing oil imports from Iran. For a government that derives 85% of its revenue from oil exports and is already teetering [...]
FrontPage Magazine had Ben Shapiro and I each argue in favor of Romney and Gingrich’s electability, with me arguing in favor of the former. I’ll be writing another article in favor of Gingrich for PJ Media in the coming days. My three reasons arguing for Romney’s electability were the polls (he’s much stronger in every [...]
Viewers of the first Republican presidential debate in Florida saw a newly aggressive Mitt Romney who engaged in a lengthy exchange with Newt Gingrich. The media will focus on the bickering over Gingrich’s alleged lobbying and tenure as speaker of the House, but the tough talk on overthrowing the communist regime of Cuba is what [...]
It’s not exactly a sign of strength when a dictator is found trying to import chemical weapons ingredients and has to rely upon a foreign terrorist group to fight a small group of protesters. A senior official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards says that Hezbollah sprung into action to save an Iranian base in Syria [...]
Newt Gingrich’s 13-point victory over Mitt Romney in South Carolina on Saturday topped off the wildest week in the Republican presidential race to date. Only four candidates remain. Three of them have won a contest. As Karl Rove said on Fox News after the results were announced, “we are in unchartered territory.” This campaign isn’t ending [...]
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has passed through the Strait of Hormuz and has entered into the Persian Gulf. This came after warnings from Iran that no US carrier would be allowed into the Gulf. This also came after the Islamic Republic held high-profile wargames. “USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) completed a regular and [...]
Russia recently imparted a warning to the West, evidently having come to the conclusion that sanctions will “stifle” the Iranian economy. In remarks at a news conference, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Western nations should instead return to focusing their efforts on reviving talks with Iran. Lavrov also cautioned the West against launching a [...]
It is now known that Hamas has decided not to renew the tenure of Khaled Mashaal, the chief of its Damascus-based political bureau and close ally of Bashar Assad. This is a dramatic shakeup that indicates a major policy shift by Hamas away from the Assad regime, which has been battling a revolution that the [...]
The Free Syria Army still controls the town of Zabadani and just won another battle today, briefly seizing part of Douma, another town in the west that is a suburb of Damascus. After they won, they wisely returned to their safehouses. This was a smart decision because it allows the Free Syria Army to declare [...]
The secular liberals in Syria seeking to topple Bashar Assad don’t want their country to be overtaken by Islamists, as has happened in Tunisia, Egypt and to a lesser degree, Libya. The most popular opposition body, the Free Syria Army, consists of mostly-secular defectors from Assad’s military. They do not speak of jihad, Sharia-based governance [...]
In August, an Iranian-sponsored terror plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. was foiled. The plot, the severity of which the media’s headlines consistently failed to capture, involved blowing up a restaurant. The plotters also discussed setting off bombs at the Saudi and Israeli embassies in D.C. and Buenos Aires. Now, a Hezbollah [...]
Yesterday was a huge night in the Republican presidential race. Rick Perry dropped out and endorsed Newt Gingrich, whose ex-wife has given two scathing interviews. The result of the Iowa caucus changed, recognizing Rick Santorum as the winner. Gingrich is surging in the South Carolina polls and the final debate before Saturday’s primary was dynamic. [...]
In its first major victory, the Free Syria Army has kicked the Assad regime’s forces out of Zabadani, a town 19 miles from Damascus near the Lebanese border. For a rebel army consisting of mostly low-level defectors that is routinely dismissed as a rag-tag force, this is huge and will cause a psychological shift in [...]
One of the mistakes that the West makes is that it doesn’t listen to what the Islamists are saying. If only we listened, we could hear their strategy. On November 20, Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, the top Muslim Brotherhood theologian and arguably the most influential Sunni cleric in the world, called on Muslims to embrace “gradualism.” The doctrine of [...]
The Republican presidential candidates debated in South Carolina last night.Mitt Romney tried to secure his lead while the other contenders sought to chip away at it. Every Republican nominee since 1980 has won the South Carolina primary, making it widely viewed as the last chance to stop Romney’s momentum. The debate audience seemed to favor Romney, [...]
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