This article appeared in The Daily News on June 29, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 29, 2021 Since taking office, President Biden has unswervingly sought to have the United States rejoin, as rapidly as possible, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). […]
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This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on June 21, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 21, 2021 The Biden administration is working hard to re-enter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Readers of David Albright’s “Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons,” however, will realize that it is Washington, […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on June 19, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 19, 2021 Iran’s hard-line mullahs left nothing to chance in Friday’s presidential election. The man they wanted to win, Ebrahim Raisi, did so handily against a carefully limited field of rivals. In 2017, Raisi […]
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The US President’s incoherent strategy makes the forthcoming summit a worrying one for the West This article appeared in The Telegraph on June 13, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 13, 2021 Joe Biden’s first summit with Vladimir Putin this week comes relatively early in his new administration, so […]
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By Dr. David Wurmser June 14, 2021 Over the last week, there have been increasing signs that Hamas may be preparing to re-initiate hostilities, starting along the border at a trickle, and then more as they go along. These threats should be taken seriously since the underlying tectonic forces that in part led to the […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Post on May 30, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton May 30, 2021 The United States and the European Union made a strategic mistake last summer by mishandling the unprecedented protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s autocratic regime. Now, after Lukashenko’s commission of air […]
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Israel cannot hope to deter this terrorist organization by negotiation alone This article appeared in The Telegraph on May 17, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton May 17, 2021 Middle Eastern armed conflicts involving Israel inevitably produce outpourings of cliches and muddled thinking: “cycle of violence,” “call on both sides […]
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He aggresses in a gray zone between NATO and Russia, so let’s remove it This article appeared in The National Review on May 13, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton May 13, 2021 The Biden administration billed Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s May 6 visit to Kyiv as showing support […]
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By Dr. David Wurmser May 12, 2021 Sadly, there seems to be an escalatory effort underway within Israel, in the administered territories in Judea and Samaria, along Israel’s northern and Gaza borders, and even globally which could lead to great tension, even war, in the coming months. This is not a mutually reinforcing cycle of […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Post on May 3, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton May 3, 2021 A recording of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that leaked last week remains unverified, but his apology on Sunday and a key Iranian official’s dismissal provide confidence in its accuracy. […]
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