Iran

Three years after Obama finalized the Iran deal, President Trump withdrew the US, and today Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a new and very ambitious path forward.

The core problem with the Iran deal is not in its details, but rather in the nature of Iran.

Trump could have chosen the deal. He could have chosen retrenchment. But he could not choose both.

Surrounded by strategic threats and faced with an increasingly aggressive Iran, the security situation for both Israel and Christian communities in the Middle East has changed in an unpredictable and dangerous way.

For now, the border between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights remains the most important border in the Middle East—a veritable dam holding back the tidal wave of Iranian ambition.

The fundamental problem with the old strategy is that it didn’t address fundamental problems: this one does

Iran’s destabilizing actions across the Middle East require powers like the United States to maintain moral bridgeheads against it.

On Monday the Trump administration warned Iran it will likely face punishment for violating “the spirit” of the Iran Deal.

In the same way the Soviet Union used Cuba, Iran may be turning the island into a “Little Iran.”