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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.
As he runs for re-election, President Obama has tried to portray his foreign policy as a success. A closer look suggests a different picture. Let us begin with a list of areas where US foreign policy has either stalled... October 22, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsAfter a 14-century-long lapse, today a small congregation of Christians will attend a special Mass in Hira in southern Iraq on the edge of the great Arabian desert. Located south of Najaf, the holy city of Shi’ite... October 21, 2012
From LocalRussia this week signed a contract to export $4.2 billion of weapons to Iraq — which is of special interest for two reasons. First, it is the largest arms-export deal since Putin became the effective ruler of Russia in... October 12, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsJust a month ago, the Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad threatened to extend the civil war in his country to “the entire Middle East.” He had, in fact, been trying to do so for months, with military incursions into Lebanon,... October 05, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsAfter months of “medical leave” in Germany, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is returning to Baghdad to face a three-part crisis that could re-plunge the country into instability and sectarian conflict. The first problem... October 03, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe Arab Spring may finally have reached the Palestinians. Protests against the rival authorities in Gaza and the West Bank haven’t become the kind of full-scale revolts that hit Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Syria.... September 29, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsMore than three years ago, Barack Obama, the new president of the United States, traveled to Istanbul and Cairo to promote rapprochement with Islam. Suggesting that we live “at a time of great tension between the United... September 18, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsCairo This week’s violence on the streets of this sprawling city is one sign of ongoing change. Another, more hopeful, one can be found in Cairo’s mosques. Until the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011,... September 15, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is the latest tragic reminder that America is at war. Christopher Stevens, the US Ambassador to Libya, and the three other American dead are the latest victims of a... September 13, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIran — with Russia’s help — is evidently trying to punish Turkey for its support for the pro-democracy movement in Syria. When the Syrian uprising started in 2011, Iran and Turkey contemplated working together to... September 07, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith his speech yesterday at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Mursi, drew a line in the sand against Iran’s hope of creating an “Islamic Awakening Front” under its leadership.... August 31, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIn Syria, every day, on average, 100 people are killed as part of the campaign of terror conducted by President Bashar al-Assad with support from Iran and Russia. For anyone concerned about human rights that would be... August 25, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe Syrian crisis that started 17 months ago as a peaceful uprising against a despot has passed through several incarnations, from massacre of civilians to civil war. It is now becoming an international war, fought via... August 11, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWho will jump next? In the wake of Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab’s defection, that’s the question making the rounds in Damascus. Hijab, a high official of the ruling Ba’ath Party, had headed several ministries before... August 07, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad on his way out, one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations may also be heading for trouble — Hezbollah, in Syrian-dominated Lebanon. The clearest sign so far that... August 04, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith the outcome of the battle for Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city, still uncertain, Iran’s Islamist leaders are pressing the Syrian regime to reject any compromise with the rebels — while the Russians are showing... July 31, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe Arab Spring has punctured many received ideas about Middle Eastern politics — including the “two-state solution” to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The “two-state” formula was always based on two questionable... July 26, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe Syrian uprising started more than 16 months ago as a spontaneous peaceful protest by around 200 people in Dera’a, a medium-sized city on the Jordanian border. Within weeks, the number had risen to 200,000... July 22, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIt may be too early to speak of endgame in Syria, but four days of fighting in the heart of the capital, Damascus, underline what should have been obvious from the start: The Assad regime’s policy of rule by massacre... July 19, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith results from Libya’s first free elections, we now have a snapshot of political opinion in almost all Arab Spring countries. (Only Yemen is yet to hold post-despot elections.) So what are the main features of that... July 13, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsParis It’s not often that an international conference produces a pleasant surprise. But the 103 nations that attended a conference of Friends of the Syrian People in Paris yesterday did so. The difference started with... July 07, 2012
From Oped Columnists‘The Missiles of the Prophet”: That’s the code-name chosen by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for its latest naval exercises, which started Monday in the Strait of Hormuz. The show of force is designed to... July 04, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsEight months after Col. Moammar Khadafy was killed in his native city of Sirte, Libyans head to the polls in an election designed to close more than 40 years of despotic rule. The July 7 voting will be the first... June 30, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsCAIRO — For the first time ever, Egypt has a freely elected president: Mohammed Morsi, a US-educated engineer backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Not clear, however, is the actual function of the new president. Over the... June 25, 2012
From LocalCairo Mubarak or the Revolution — which one will die first? That was the question Egyptians pondered yesterday as the old despot was reported to be dying (some even said had already died) in Cairo’s Maadi Hospital.... June 21, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsCairo As voting was completed in Egypt’s first credible presidential election yesterday, more details were emerging about the broken power-sharing “grand bargain” between the military leadership and he Muslim... June 18, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith the Annan “peace plan” all but acknowledged to be a failure, a new diplomatic game is shaping up around Syria: “waiting for Russia,” as Western leaders hope Moscow will persuade Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad to... June 12, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWhile Bashar al-Assad’s henchmen continue daily massacres, the debate on Syria is being pushed onto three wrong trajectories. The first is the assertion that Western democracies can’t move against Assad because Russia... June 09, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith a Shiite-Sunni sectarian war brewing along the Syrian border, few Lebanese might want to remember the Israeli invasion of 1982, which started 30 years ago today. Yet that war and its sequels not only changed the... June 06, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsWith freshly re-elected Vladimir Putin due in Paris today for a summit with new French President Francois Hollande, the Russian media have been talking up the idea of a new Paris-Moscow axis. In fact, Putin is likely to... June 01, 2012
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