Originally appeared on The American Conservative.CNN reports that Trump may decide to cancel more sanctions waivers, and this time they affect ongoing work to implement provisions of the nuclear deal:President Donald Trump and his advisers are considering revoking...
Trump’s Destructive Decision to Embrace Haftar in Libya
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The New York Times reports more on Trump’s sudden about-face in Libya:The policy reversal came as a surprise in part because Mr. Hifter’s forces also appear to be losing ground. His promises of a quick victory...
Trump’s Sanctions Kill Iranian Reforms
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Rohollah Faghihi reports on the damage that Trump administration decisions have done to the political fortunes of Iranian moderates and reformists and their agenda. One of the practical effects of designating the IRGC...
Trump’s Shameful Yemen Veto Defines His Presidency
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.As expected, Trump used his veto tonight to reject S.J.Res. 7, the antiwar Yemen resolution passed by both houses of Congress earlier this year:President Trump has just issued the second veto of his presidency,...
Trump’s Failing Venezuela Policy
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Venezuelan military has not budged from its support for Maduro:Underpaid, underfed and humiliated by the autocratic turn their once-rich and democratic country had taken, the armed forces were the linchpin of the...
The Iran Hawks’ Creepy Embrace of the MEK
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resumes his discrediting advocacy for the Mujahideen-e Khalq:Which is why I include myself among an incredible cadre of men and women from across every spectrum of life and...
Saudi Coalition Airstrikes Kill 11 Yemeni Girls
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Saudi coalition planes bombed the area next to a girls’ school in Sanaa earlier today, killing at least 11 and injuring dozens more:At least eleven schoolgirls have been killed by an explosion at a warehouse in...
Pompeo’s Crocodile Tears for Iranian Flood Victims
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Secretary of State issued a terse, woefully inadequate message about the floods in Iran, and used most of the message to pin blame for the disaster on Iran:On behalf of the American people, we offer our condolences...
Pompeo’s Pathetic Pro-Saudi Spin
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.During his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mike Pompeo said the following about Yemen and Saudi Arabia (around 4:10:15 here):The challenges that you’ve cited, the death that you just cited in...
Four Years of the War on Yemen
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.This week marks the fourth year since the beginning of the Saudi coalition’s war on Yemen. In the last four years, the coalition has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, devastated its economy,...


