In 2015, WikiLeaks published a tranche of emails hacked from the account of future CIA Director John Brennan. Among the documents was “The Conundrum of Iran,” a draft paper, on U.S. policy toward Iran that Brennan wrote in July 2007, with recommendations for the next president. When Barack Obama was elected, Brennan became national security adviser,...
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Analyst Sees Iran’s ‘Deep State’ Favoring a Syrian Stronghold
Iran’s intervention in Syria is not particularly popular at home, according to independent Iranian observers. But Iran’s national security policymakers favor it, according to Foreign Policy Iran’s policymakers believe they can reap the benefits of sensible responses to two decades of violent American blundering in the Middle East. Like them or not, their worldview is coherent....