Aaron David Miller, CNN: How Iran outfoxes U.S.
(CNN)If I had to describe the U.S.-Iranian relationship in one word it would be "overmatched."
We're playing checkers on the Middle East game board and Tehran's playing three-dimensional chess. Iran has no problem reconciling its bad and contradictory behavior while we twist ourselves into knots over our tough choices, all the while convincing ourselves that America's policy on the nuclear issue is on the right track.
Iran isn't 10 feet tall in this region, but by making the nuclear issue the be-all and end-all that is supposed to reduce Iran's power, the United States is only making Tehran taller. Consider the following:
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 22, 2015
Ignore the Noise in Washington and Tehran. An Iran Nuclear Deal Is Still Likely -- Ian Bremmer, Time
A tricky two-step in the Middle East -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
The Tectonic Shift in Obama's Iran Policy -- Michael Doran, Mosaic
Why Yemen's government-in-exile is pressing for Saudi military restraint -- Taylor Luck, CSM
War in Yemen Threatens Pakistan’s Ties to the Gulf -- Saagar Enjeti, The Diplomat
Egypt’s Revolution: Bringing the Army Back -- Caroline Alexander and Tarek El-Tablawy, Bloomberg
Turkey Breaks From West on Defense -- Emre Peker, WSJ
The myth of China’s ghost cities -- Wade Shepard, Reuters
The World Doesn't Think Much of China’s Leaders (Literally) -- Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat
A Leaderless Europe -- Conrad Black, NRO
What’s Fueling Europe’s Migrant Crisis? -- Tom Wilson, Commentary
Europe’s greatest crisis isn’t Greece or Ukraine, and it may have no solution -- John Lloyd, Reuters
Cause behind African migrant flood has terrifying implications for the world -- Michael Werz and Max Hoffman, Reuters
Europe Wrestles with the Gazprom Cronies -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
How Cartels Use 'Narco-Submarines' to Smuggle Drugs by the Ton -- Popular Mechanics
How One Man Crashed the Stock Market -- Michael Maiello, Daily Beast
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