By Harold Rhode and Dan Diker What came out of the US-led talks with the Iranian regime? The Iranians and the American-led Western...

Islam, even Shi’ite Islam - no matter how much Iranians might claim Shi'ism to be an Iranian religion - is really still a foreign b

When the Iranians, then one of the most advanced and mightiest empires on earth, were conquered in 636 CE by what they deemed one of the...

The Iranians are the best strategists in the Middle East, better than those in the West, and the reason the Iranians constantly succeed...

אין חולק על-כך שהמזרח-התיכון הוא אחד האיזורים הדינמיים ביותר בעולם. אם עד לפני כמה חודשים העסיקה סוגיית הגרעין האיראני את דעת הקהל...

Watching the Syrians kill each other, one can get the impression from the media that there are two sides—the Assad regime and “the...

By Harold Rhode and Dan Diker Syria’s fragmentation along religious and ethnic lines exposes the apparent rupture of what has been known...

You might think that what the United States should be doing in the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict -- in which it has no theological stake -- is...

A full scale Middle Eastern, Islamic type of war between the Sunnis and Shiites is raging. Officials in Washington are doing their best...

In totalitarian societies, people are wary of telling others what they "really think." Given the Iranian government's ability to suppress...

The Obama Administration has decided to sell Iraq 36 advanced F-16 Block 52 fighters. On the surface this might seem a good idea, it...

Recently, the American Chairman of the Joint Chief Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, said that the Iranian Regime is rational. It is...

As the Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic revolution in Iran, said: The Muslim world is engaged in a war with the non-Muslim...

With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...

Shiites have historically been, to use the words of Fouad Ajami, the stepchildren of the Arab world. They constitute only about 12-15%...

The Sunni-Shiite Divide Iranian Shiites and Turkish Sunnis are engaged today in a huge battle to capture the hearts and minds of the Arab...

Executive Summary This analysis identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian people since ancient times. Most...

From the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk founded a modern democratic state by forging the entirely unprecedented notion in the...