Russia Has No Interest in Curbing Iran in Syria—Despite Putin’s Assurances
Putin can afford to lie to America, but he can’t control Syria without Iranian support.
July 20, 2018
Russia Has No Interest in Curbing Iran in Syria—Despite Putin’s Assurances
Putin can afford to lie to America, but he can’t control Syria without Iranian support.
In his joint press conference on Monday with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump stated that in their meeting he had brought up U.S. concerns about the Islamic Republic’s malign influence in the Middle East, and that he’d “made clear [to Putin] that the United States will not allow Iran to benefit from [America’s] successful campaign against Islamic State.” It does not appear, however, that any concrete agreements were reached. To Alexandra Gutowski and Caleb Weiss, it’s clear that agreements will do little, since Putin can’t be trusted to keep his word:
July 20, 2018
Twenty-Four Years after the Buenos Aires Bombing, Iran Is Becoming More Entrenched in Argentina
And the investigation is still ongoing.
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Dangerously Wrong about Holocaust Denial
Itself a form of anti-Semitism.
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Yiddish literature’s best-known character.
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