The China-Iran-Saudi Arabia Deal Might Be Less Than Meets the Eye
Riyadh still has many reasons to fear Tehran.
March 13, 2023
The China-Iran-Saudi Arabia Deal Might Be Less Than Meets the Eye
Riyadh still has many reasons to fear Tehran.
On Friday, senior officials from Tehran and Riyadh announced the restoration of diplomatic ties between their respective countries. The agreement appears to signal a Saudi pivot away from the U.S. It is also a way for China, which brokered the deal, to assert itself as a a major powerbroker in the Middle East. But Bobby Ghosh cautions against reading too much into this development:
March 13, 2023
Why Mizrahi Jews in Israel Tend to Vote the Way They Do
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Revisiting Norman Podhoretz’s Making It.
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Setting the record straight about Versailles, Weimar, and Hitler.
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