The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 13-15, 2010. The Hill: Rebecca Heinrichs, an adjunct fellow at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), blogs that the $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia should not be… Continue Reading

The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 12, 2010. Commentary: Commentary Magazine executive editor Jonathan S. Tobin, hits back against a column by Alon Pinkas, Israel’s former consul general in New York. Pinkas wrote on Politico that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin… Continue Reading

The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 11, 2010. National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) fellow Benjamin Weinthal blogs that while U.S. President Barack Obama used his trip to Indonesia to scold Israel for new… Continue Reading

Neocon Walid Phares’s Bogus Call for “Justice” in Lebanon

This is a guest post from Beirut by Marc J. Sirois, a writer and the former managing editor of the Daily Star newspaper in the Lebanese capital. If you cook dinner for a large crowd and manage to flub the… Continue Reading

The Daily Talking Points

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 9, 2010. The Washington Post: Senior Council on Foreign Relations fellow and former George W. Bush policy adviser Michael Gerson writes that after the midterm election, Obama may choose to focus… Continue Reading