The USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Indian Ocean Jan. 18. The aircraft carrier sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf without incident a day after Iran backed away from an earlier threat to take action if an American carrier returned to the strategic waterway. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Eric S. Powell/Handout
Ex-CIA Spy: Iran's Miscalculation Over War -- Reza Kahlili, Christian Science Monitor
Leading Iranians are criticizing the regime, including its war-like provocation and the foreign sanctions aimed at its nuclear program. One Revolutionary Guard commander calls Iran's war threats 'the same stupidity' and miscalculation that preceded the Iran-Iraq war.
Iran’s religious and military leaders are making a major miscalculation in their confrontation with the United States that could destroy Iran and the current regime.
By refusing to address the concerns of the international community over its nuclear program, and by threatening to close the critical maritime Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is playing with fire.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Will Israel Attack Iran? (And If It Does, Can It Really Stop Tehran’s Nuclear Program?) -- Karl Vick, Time
Why Iran will not ‘come to its senses’ -- Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail
Iran’s terror proxy -- Jerusalem Post editorial
Should the US attack Iran? Monitor Facebook fans speak out. -- Nakia Hill, Christian Science Monitor
The Afghan divide: Is the United States succeeding in Afghanistan? It depends on what you measure and whom you ask. -- L.A. Times
Taliban Tribulations -- Strategy Page
Fears Lurk in a Post-Transition Afghanistan -- Graham Bowley, New York Times
How Iran Controls Afghanistan -- Fariba Nawa, FOX News
Pakistan’s three-way power struggle: a dispute with much at stake -- Washington Post editorial
A precarious Indo-Pak nuclear balance -- Happymon Jacob, The Hindu
Russia's Opposition Headed for Trouble -- Jeffrey Tayler, Bloomberg
Canada: no longer just friendly and harmless -- Scott Gilmore, The Ottawa Citizen
The coming debate over American ‘strength’ abroad -- Daivd Ignatius, Washington Post
Obama shouldn’t ignore the war next door -- Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
ACLU and the Gitmo Leak of CIA Agent Photos -- Lee Cary & Marty Watters, American Thinker
Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet -- Alexandra Petri, Washington Post
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