Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum. A former Pentagon official, Dr. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, and both pre- and postwar Iraq. He also spent time with the Taliban before 9/11. For more than a decade, he taught classes at sea about the Horn of Africa and Middle East conflicts, culture, and terrorism, to deployed US Navy and Marine units. Dr. Rubin is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books exploring diplomacy, Iranian history, Arab culture, Kurdish studies, and Shi’ite politics.
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Key Points and Summary – Following US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Russian official Dmitry Medvedev hinted that countries like Russia or North Korea...
Key Points – Following the successful US air assault on Iran’s key nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, the immediate military objective may...
Key Points and Summary: President Trump’s reported lunch meeting with Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir to discuss a potential U.S.-Pakistan alliance against Iran is...
Key Points – While Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” has degraded Iran’s nuclear program, the question of regime change versus denuclearization as the ultimate goal...
Key Points – As Israel’s conventional strikes degrade Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure, the risk grows that a desperate Iranian regime could retaliate with...
In 2003, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and National Security Council official Zalmay Khalilzad travelled to Switzerland to meet secretly with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s former...