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Opinion: How to Cuddle the Russian Bear

by Amir Taheri | Oct 7, 2016 | Opinion

Those following the development of Russo-Iranian relations may have been surprised by the current intensification of exchanges between the two neighbors. Since the start of this year, the two sides have exchanged no fewer than 40 high-level official visits including...

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President Barack Obama walks from Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s Hallucinatory Excuses on Syria

by Richard Cohen | Oct 6, 2016 | Opinion

The New York Times’ David Sanger had an interesting observation in a recent article on Vladimir Putin’s bizarre foreign policy. Russia, Sanger wrote, is a “declining economy with the gross domestic product of Italy.” So how come it manages to push around the United...

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U.S. President Barack Obama. Reuters

JASTA: Misconceived and Stillborn, Can it Survive?

by Amir Taheri | Oct 5, 2016 | Features

London-After weeks in the headlines the notorious Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) maybe nose-diving like a punctured balloon with even its makers no longer sure of its wisdom. There are at least three big problems with JASTA. The first is that it...

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks as he welcomes NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his team to honor the Sprint Cup Series championship at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

JASTA Becomes Headache for Congress…White House: You Behaved Like Schoolchildren

by Mohammad Ali Salih | Oct 3, 2016 | World

Washington-The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) has now become a source of headache for U.S. lawmakers as some of them tried to justify their decision to pass the bill by blaming the White House for being unclear in explaining the law’s repercussions....

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Edward Snowden speaks via video link at a news conference for the launch of a campaign calling on President Barack Obama to pardon him on September 14, 2016 in New York City. AFP

Fate of Whistle-blower Divides American Media

by Amir Taheri | Oct 3, 2016 | Media

London-Remember Edward Snowden? Well, he is the whistlebower who,let’s say, lifted thousands of official secret documents and handed them over to a syndicate of newspapers that published a selection. Strictly speaking, Snowden is a thief because he took what did not...