This is a useful reminder. The Islamic Republic and the Iranian people are NOT one and the same.
Iran DID NOT attack Israel. The Islamic Republic did.
Praying for the people of Iran and Israel.
Ilan Berman
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Ilan Berman
@ilanberman
Senior VP, @afpc. Editor-in-Chief, STATECRAFT & STRATEGY. Views my own. Forbes contributor. Board member, RFE/RL and MBN. Sanctioned by Russia.
- Today's UAE-Israel peace deal is shaping up to be a pretty good litmus test of which folks hate Israel so much that they'd prefer greater instability in the Middle East to anything that might benefit the Jewish state.
- What is @PahlaviReza's vision for Iran? I explore, in the first of a feature series of articles on Iranian opposition politics for @TheNatlInterest nationalinterest.org/feature/irans-…
- Repeat after me: Qatar is not our friend.Qatari PM - we will not close Hamas office.
00:00 - This outstanding report by @Reuters utterly demolishes the received wisdom now circulating in the media and on the Left, that the Soleimani hit was an ill thought-out provocation. Turns out there was a lot of “there” there after all. reuters.com/article/us-ira…
- Who, exactly, are the MeK, and what do they want for #Iran? I explore in my latest feature article on the Iranian opposition for @TheNatlInterest nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-ea…
- As the child of Soviet refuseniks, this whole "we have a list" thing makes me pretty nervous. My family knows how this ends.Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into "polite" society. We have a list.
- How the Trump administration can flip the script on Iran: blacklist the IRGC. My latest, in @USNewsOpinion
- Ahead of the country's upcoming elections, and faced with the possibility of a new deal with the U.S., the Iranian opposition is organizing. Washington should pay attention... and heed its warning. My latest, in @Newsweek newsweek.com/irans-oppositi…
- My social media lesson of the day: Iran apologist twitter is the stupidest twitter.
- Um, should someone tell her this is how market choices work?"She got into her dream college but her dream college offered her no scholarships, just loans." Rep. @AOC shares story of young woman she mentored who faced $250,000 of debt in order to attend her dream college.
00:00 - This is worth re-upping... because it's a day ending in "y".John Kerry in 2016: "There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear to all of you. "
00:00 - This person is currently still employed by the Pentagon. How, precisely, can this be, @SecDef?
- That feeling when having CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, WaPo, NYT, LAT, The Atlantic and dozens of other media outlets in your pocket simply isn't enough...It’d be nice if one left of center billionaire recognized the glaring need for investments in progressive media platforms to counter the Fox-Sinclair-Breitbart-right wing propaganda machine.
