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Rich Lowry: Trump Is Stuck on Iran Because the Gulf States Don’t Want the Strait Reopened by Force
Rich Lowry is editor of National Review and author of The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United,…
Peter Berkowitz: Two Competing Trump Administration Deals on Iran and Lebanon Are in Tension With Each Other
Peter Berkowitz is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State…
Steven Bucci: Iran Is the Ultimate Petulant Child and Trump Is Trending Toward Being the Overindulgent Parent
Steven Bucci served America for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon official, is a visiting…
Daniel DePetris: Iran Settlement Could Become a New Status Quo
Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities and a syndicated foreign affairs columnist at the Chicago Tribune and Newsweek.…
Bill Roggio: Strait of Hormuz Remains Effectively Closed, Iran Has Given Zero Concessions While the US Gives Up Everything
Bill Roggio is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and editor of FDD’s Long War…
Jon Hoffman: Israel Is a Strategic Liability, Iran Would Not Use Nuclear Weapons, and the JCPOA Was Working Until the US Scrapped It
Jon Hoffman, research fellow in defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute: Israel Is a Strategic Liability for the…
Noah Rothman: Iran Deal Risks Repeating Decades of Failed Diplomacy
Senior writer at National Review, Noah Rothman offers a reminder about the Iran deal: “The thing with multi-stage agreements involving…
Steven Bucci: We Should Have Just Taken the Strait of Hormuz by Force
The Heritage Foundation’s Steven Bucci questions why the U.S. didn't take a more aggressive approach to removing Iran's grip on…
Joel Pollak: Trump’s Iran Strategy Is Driven by Midterm Politics Not a Clear Plan
Opinion editor at The California Post, Joel Pollak, argues Iran chose confrontation over prosperity, proving there is no partner for…