Deeper ties with Gulf states will strengthen NATO alliance
The war in Iran has resulted in no shortage of geopolitical consequences for policymakers around the globe. From high energy prices to key shipping lanes being closed, leaders from Europe to the...
Preparing for the post-Iran war era
The Middle East stands at a dangerous inflection point. The confrontation involving Iran, Israel and the US is not merely another episode in a long cycle of regional tensions — it is...
The war against Iran is anything but over, and Passover can be no complacent...
The nuclear danger, the missile threat, the potent proxies, the domestic oppression — none of these regime menaces has been definitively overcome. For Israel and the...
Regional quartet offer Trump a final off-ramp
The four-way foreign ministers’ meeting held in Islamabad on Sunday may be the region’s best — and last — chance to arrest the slide toward full-scale war in the Arabian Gulf and...
Pakistan should be empowered to mediate end to Iran war
Israel surprisingly struck close to the Pakistan Embassy in Tehran on Thursday. This was not by chance. The area near the embassy was hit because Pakistan is trying to play a role in ending...
A war imposed, a peace shaped by Riyadh and Islamabad
The Islamabad meeting of the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkiye and Egypt has now produced a clear and consequential outcome: Pakistan has been firmly established as the principal venue for...
Children pay the highest price in Middle East conflict
I visited Beirut this week, where this war is devastating children and families yet again, with more than 1 million people forcibly displaced from their homes.
I saw first-hand...
The far-reaching implications of Israel’s Caspian Sea strikes
With much of the world’s attention on the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, there is another body of water that has become a focal point of the war with Iran:...
The key internal messages in Khamenei’s speeches
The most recent address by Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, titled “Nowruz Message 1405” and issued on March 20, reveals that the new leader of the Islamic Republic has, from the outset...
A region held hostage to impunity
What is unfolding today across the Middle East is not merely another cycle of violence — it is the consolidation of a dangerous doctrine: impunity without consequence. From the shattered neighborhoods of...