Stability, prosperity and progressive ideals in the Middle East depend on maintaining cooperative partnerships with both countries throughout this current crisis and beyond.

The U.S. needs to move on from a failed and heavy-handed approach to spreading democracy in the Middle East to a smarter foreign policy.

Since 1979, the mullahs’ regime in Iran has given the world and the Iranian people 40-years of corruption, repression, terror, and failure.

Iran’s number of international friends is dwindling. The U.S. is turning up the heat. What will Iran do next?

Trump is Course Correcting U.S. Foreign Policy on Iran

In public, Iran is war posturing. In private, diplomacy may be paving the way towards a truce.

Failing to come to terms with neither Iran nor North Korea is hardly a foreign policy failure: These two rouge states are the two most difficult diplomatic challenges facing world leaders today.

What appears to be the accidental downing of a commercial aircraft has greatly weakened Iran’s bargaining power in its current conflict with the U.S.

Never explain, never complain.