“We have little doubt that Iran’s leadership is still strategically committed to achieving deliverable nuclear weapons.” So said national security adviser John Bolton in Israel last week. The problem is, says Joe Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, U.S. intelligence does not agree. In a piece for Defense One, he writes Director of...
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The Rendition of Jamal Khashoggi
“It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die,” a Turkish source tells the pro-government news site Yen Safak. The source claimed to have heard the audio recording of the Saudi dissident’s assassination inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, the source said, was drugged dismembered while still alive according to the unconfirmed report Mounting...
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The Khashoggi Affair Won’t Stop Trump’s Drive for War With Iran
The disappearance and apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi have disrupted the Saudi government’s charm offensive in the United States. Think tanks are returning Saudi money. Defense contractors are worried about the end of lucrative arms deals. Sen. Marco Rubio says “no more business as usual.” The otherwise friendly editorial page of the Washington Post is...
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Khashoggi Crisis War Drives Iran Off the Front Pages
Khashoggi’s Watch In a plot twist straight out of a Hollywood horror flick, Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch may have recorded his death. Khashoggi’s “interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both his phone and to iCloud,” Turkish media reported. U.S. intelligence agencies–probably the NSA–had advance notice of Saudi intentions to waylay Khashoggi at the Saudi...
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Israeli intelligence Sees Iran Consolidating Gains in Syria
From the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel comes this new Zionist assessment of Iran’s recent successes in Syria and Iraq. What does the report tell us?