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Meet Iran’s “Carrier Killer”: The Khalij Fars
As The Diplomat reported on Monday, last weekend Israel carried out a number of air raids on missile deposits in [...]
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Israel’s Target in Syria Was Hezbollah, Not Assad
At first glance, the two series of Israeli air strikes inside Syria on Friday and Sunday may suggest that Israel [...]
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Iran’s Nuclear Submarine Gambit
For some time now a pattern has developed in the standoff between Iran and the United States in which the [...]
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The P5+1’s Price Isn’t Right
The West’s position in nuclear negotiations with Iran undervalues the importance of the nuclear program to the Islamic Republic. Reports [...]
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Poll: 99% of Americans View Iran Developing a Nuclear Weapon as a Threat
A new poll released by Gallup has found that Americans view Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programs as the greatest [...]
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Missile Defense’s Real Enemy: Math
Stretching back several decades, the concept of missile defense has been hotly debated. Some well reasoned scholars argue that the [...]
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An Overhyped Threat: Ballistic Missiles
The spectacles of the Syrian Scud missile launches, the recent North Korean ballistic missile test, and the relative success of [...]
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Why Aircraft Carriers Sail On
Have aircraft carriers become obsolete? Since 1949, analysts have argued that some combination of strategic bombers and cheap anti-shipping weapons [...]
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Why Iran Doesn’t Believe U.S. and Israeli Threats
Speculation over a possible Israeli military strike on Iran has increased since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its [...]
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Iran’s Syrian Endgame
Last week, 48 Iranian “pilgrims” were kidnapped by the opposition in Syria. The circumstances surrounding their capture led many to [...]
