Amir Taheri is author of 11 books on the Middle East, Iran and Islam. He has been a syndicated columnist for American, British, and Middle Eastern publications since the 1980s. He has edited newspapers and magazines in his native Iran as well as Britain and France. He has been writing for the New York Post since 2002. In 2005, Taheri was named Senior Fellow at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.
A year after the Tunisian uprising, opinion is divided over the revolts it inspired across the Middle East. Many in the West wonder whether the “Arab Spring” is heading for an “Islamist winter.” In Arab countries, too,...
January 07, 2012 12:00 AMA month after “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei warned that his Islamic Republic was ready for war, Iran has provided a glimpse of how it envisions a clash with America in the form of a 10-day aero-naval exercise — including...
January 03, 2012 12:00 AMThree days after it arrived on the scene, the Arab League’s mission to Syria appears to have sunk into a routine that is unlikely to end the 10-month-old crisis. Headed by Sudanese Gen. Mustafa al-Dabi (he of Darfur...
December 29, 2011 12:00 AM
The last American troops in Iraq will fly home by month’s end; whatever the shape of future relations between the two nations, the US withdrawal marks the end of a chapter, if not a whole volume. In one of those...
December 14, 2011 12:00 AM
Is a green wave of Islamism soon to cover the whole of North Africa? In Tunisia, the Islamist an-Nahda (Revival) Party is in talks to head a coalition government. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, campaigning as “The...
November 29, 2011 12:00 AMAfter almost a year of bloodshed caused by his refusal to leave power, Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down. He plans to live in exile in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh in a palace not far from...
November 24, 2011 12:00 AM
‘Back to Tahrir!”: In the last few days, this has been the war cry of Egyptians trying to reoccupy Cairo’s largest square and relive last spring’s heady days of what they call “our revolution.” As always since it seized...
November 23, 2011 12:00 AM
Whichever way one looks at it, the revolution in Syria is a classic example of an event that should prompt the United Nations into action. Every day, large numbers of Syrians take to the streets to call for the...
November 21, 2011 12:00 AM
As Arab foreign ministers met in Rabat, Morocco, yesterday to discuss Syria, one question was on every mind: Is the country already in a civil war? Some of the facts on the ground suggest so. With more than 350 killed...
November 17, 2011 12:00 AM
Liberated from 60 years of military rule, will Egyptians hand over their destiny to parties that could impose another despotism in the name of religion? The answer could come Nov. 28 with the first parliamentary...
November 12, 2011 12:00 AM
As expected, the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran’s clandestine nuclear-weapons program has revealed, once again, that the Islamic Republic is determined to ignore international law and the...
November 10, 2011 12:00 AM
To bomb or not to bomb? In the entourage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (with echoes in Washington), this is the question. The target would be Iran, which is once again all but accused by the International...
November 07, 2011 12:00 AMHaving completed their first free elections, Tunisians must now begin to learn the grammar of a new politics. The nation’s new political landscape is clear. The Islamist Ennahda (Revival) Movement topped the polls,...
October 31, 2011 12:00 AMWhat will Arabs do after chasing away their despots? The question will get the beginning of an answer tomorrow, when Tunisia holds its first free elections. Tunisia was the first nation to revolt in the wave that...
October 22, 2011 12:00 AM
‘We found him hiding in a hole,” says Muhammad al-Bibi, the man who led the detail that captured Col. Moammar Khadafy. “He raised his hands as a sign of surrender and shouted: ‘Don’t shoot!’” Thus, the man who ruled...
October 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Over the last six months, as Syria has edged closer to full-scale civil war, Western powers have blamed “Arab inaction” for their own lack of a robust policy to stop the daily bloodshed in the country. Last weekend,...
October 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Thanks to an accident of official schedules, last Tuesday, almost at the same time that President Obama was charging the Islamic Republic with plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Iran’s “Supreme Guide”...
October 16, 2011 12:00 AMNo one knows where the accusations leveled against Iran by US Attorney General Eric Holder might lead. If true, the claim that Iran planned to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington would amount to an act of war...
October 13, 2011 12:00 AMA few weeks ago, a senior Russian official assured me that his government wouldn’t block “a strong resolution” in support of the uprising in Syria. Yet Russia this month vetoed a fairly mild UN Security Council...
October 10, 2011 12:00 AM
We can’t hide the fact: America and Pakistan are at war over Afghanistan. The Pakistanis want a big voice in the government in Kabul. The United States backs Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who’s determined to prevent...
October 04, 2011 12:00 AM
Will a murder in Kabul upset President Obama’s timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? On Tuesday, a suicide bomber activated a bomb hidden in his turban -- killing Burhaneddin Rabbani, the 71-year-old former...
September 22, 2011 12:00 AMWith Egypt still trying to find its way to the future, issues that were taboo under the ousted despotic regime are hotly debated in every teahouse -- including the peace treaty with Israel, now entering its fourth...
September 17, 2011 12:00 AM
When the Twin Towers collapsed 10 years ago, global jihadists presented the event as “the end of the Infidel domination of the world.” Modeled on the tactic of ghazva (“raid”) that helped Mohammed conquer Mecca, the...
September 07, 2011 12:00 AM
Now in its sixth month, the Syrian uprising is developing into a power struggle between regional rivals Turkey and Iran. After hesitating, Turkey appears to have determined that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad...
August 27, 2011 12:00 AMCol. Moammar Khadafy may no longer be a problem for Libya. But even with Khadafy ousted, Libya is likely to be a problem for some time. Before they uncork the bubbly, NATO leaders should take a hard look at what...
August 24, 2011 12:00 AM
Has the Obama administration abandoned its illusions about Bashar Assad? A senior source in the administration answers with “an emphatic yes.” “We have concluded that, far from being a force for reform in Syria,...
August 12, 2011 12:00 AM
Yesterday, rumors were making the rounds in Tali ban circles that Mullah Omar had died. In fact, sources tell me that he is alive and hiding in the Pakistani city of Quetta. But his recent failures will make it hard to...
July 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Each July for the last decade, the Syrian regime has staged North Korean-style "popular marches" marking President Bashar al-Assad's accession to power in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez. But this year,...
July 19, 2011 12:00 AMDefeated in Iraq and shut out of Af ghanistan, al Qaeda may be trying to transfer its principal bases to its birthplace, Saudi Arabia. At least, that's what the Riyadh government claimed in a series of leaks to the...
July 15, 2011 12:00 AM
Talk to high officials in Western capitals these days and you hear that it's time for the United Nations to "do something" about Syria. "The UN cannot remain silent," says British Foreign Secretary William Hague....
July 05, 2011 12:00 AM
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