Dan Driscoll was a close ally of Vice President JD Vance but clashed with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Vance is seen as standing on the ‘isolationist’ wing of the Republican Party and has accused Israel of “manipulating” US public opinion to keep the Iran war going. Hegseth is one of the war’s strongest defenders
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
The war is the culmination of decades of fearmongering by a squad of media conglomerates, hawkish think tanks, and Iran “experts” [many of them Israel partisans] who have been active since the late 1990s…
At least a part of the U.S. foreign policy borg has come to the conclusion that the U.S. has lost its primary role in the Middle East. There seems to be little appetite to regain the position. Here are some of these voices…
To Bessent’s Treasury, a dollar sent to keep a hospital operating in Gaza or a school open in the West Bank is treated with the same hostility as a transaction funding illicit weapons.
Trita Parsi: The only way to turn this unexpected shift in the balance of leverage into a political victory is through diplomacy. If the administration pursues maximalist demands, it risks converting a moment of leverage into another cycle of war
Exposé by Ronen Bergman shows how Israel invented quote from Iranian official in order to manufacture “evidence” that Iran is building nuclear weapons. The only problem? It wasn’t true
Washington Post: CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight
Republican senators are criticizing the handling of an emergency request for $70 billion in defense spending to cover the costs of the Iran war. They warn that the Pentagon will need to explain its war plan better to get the money
Israeli intelligence had warned that Iranian operatives could target Trump’s plane with shoulder-fired missiles during the Nato summit in Ankara amid tense negotiations with Tehran