Erdoğan Sets His Sights on Israel
If Trump wants to prevent another regional conflict, calling Turkey’s president a “friend” won’t cut it.
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Diego Radames / Europa Press / Getty Forget the Bomb and Help Iranians Fight Their Regime
All the other options have failed.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani for The Atlantic. Source: Alamy. Trump Delivers a Victory to Iran
The president’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria has ruined the administration’s efforts to contain the Islamic republic.
U.S. Army / Reuters The Nuclear Deal Keeps America From Confronting Iranian Aggression
Once Trump is out, Washington can get serious about the regime’s misbehavior.
Behrouz Mehri / AFP / Getty The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
Why would the U.S. want to fund the regime’s imperialism?
Vahid Salemi / AP The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
It is less an arms-control agreement than cover for American inaction.
Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi / TIMA / Reuters Ayatollah Democracy
Arrogant, dogmatic, and anti-American, Iraq's Shiite clerics are the last people enlightened Westerners want to see in power. Let's hope they prevail
The Gospel According to Osama Bin Laden
To Western ears, the author writes, the public utterances of Osama Bin Laden have always come across like the "tirades of a loony idealogue." But these skillful rhetorical constructions, rich in historical allusion, have enormous powers of penetration—and will survive their author
