By Raz Zimmt – INSS Inside 18.8.2021 Conservatives with anti-Western views and former officeholders in the Ahmadinejad government: whoever hoped that Iran’s incoming president would try to form a balanced government must be disappointed with Raisi’s list of proposed ministers, who espouse hardline views. What does the composition of this designated government signal about Raisi’s […]
And What Washington Can Do About It Now By Vanda Felbab-Brown FOREIGN AFFAIRS – August 17, 2021 In the end, it took astoundingly little time after U.S. forces left Afghanistan for the Taliban to bring down its government: ten days. On Friday and Saturday, hour by hour, some of Afghanistan’s biggest provinces surrendered to the Taliban […]
