Epstein Secrets

Palestine-Israel equation. Egypt's emerging détente with Iran is beginning to worry not only the United States and Israel, but also monarchies in the Persian Gulf. A year before the 2011 revolution, many prominent leaders in Egypt and the Arab world began to realize the value of normalized relations with Iran

assan bin Talal is chairman and founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the West Asia-North Africa Forum. EFTA_R1_02031582 EFTA02690691 Arbelt 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors June 21, 2011 -- Syrian President Bashar al Assad delivered a long and uneventful speech Monday, duri

Post Avoiding a summer of blood David Ignatius Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal Article 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors Agence Global A Defiant Asad Sticks to His Guns Patrick Seale Foreign Policy In Focus Egypt's Evolv

unavoidable but may not be disastrous given our deterrent capacity, the bigger risk is not from Iran but from a world in which Iran's rivals across the Persian Gulf, such as Saudi Arabia, to others in the region and emerging powers elsewhere around the world enter a nuclear arms race. Such a race would both ge

Must Avoid David Rothkopf Article 3. Foreign Policy 8 Ways the World Has Changed Since Obama's Election Ty Mccormick, Uri Friedman Article 4. Stratfor The Elections, Gridlock and Foreign Policy George Friedman Article 5. AL-MONITOR Erdogan's Bigger Game: Change the Constitution Tulin Daloglu

destroyed. But the third deterrent is the critical factor. Iran has for decades cultivated the ability to essentially conduct guerrilla warfare in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. This is Iran's real "nuclear" option. There are inherent vulnerabilities in such tight waters, in which Iran can bring to

nation or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Thank you for your cooperation. From: Stratfor < To: Steve Hanson Sent: Tue Nov 08 19:08:19 2011 Subject: Iran's Nuclear Program and its Nuclear Option esday, November 8, 2011 ;t; Diary Archi

ernal Look, played out a narrative in which the United States found it was pulled into the conflict after Iranian missiles struck a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf, killing about 200 Americans, according to officials with knowledge of the exercise. The United States then retaliated by carrying out its own stri

portunity shrinking by the hour. Unless otherwise persuaded by the United States, Israel would feel compelled to strike. As for Israeli arms sales, Stratfor wrote in a recent report: "It is difficult to believe that the United States and Israel are not coordinating their activities in the Caucasus. ...

63 EFTA01977747 steadily expanding its sphere of influence, from western Afghanistan to the Mediterranean. A subsequent U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf and an intensifying U.S.-led economic warfare campaign slowed Iran down, but it was the decline of the al Assad regime that put Iran on the defensi

eign Policy How Hamas Won the War Aaron David Miller Article 3 New York Daily News The Fuel for The Flames Dennis Ross Article 4. Article 5. Stratfor Israel and Gaza: Then and Now The Washington Post The callousness of Hamas Richard Cohen EFTA_R1_00464339 EFTA01977723 The Wall Street Journa

rder to win tit-for-tat concessions from Iran in 2012. Better, they calculate, to stall, look tough, and if need be engage in a military buildup in the Persian Gulf now and then. That U.S. and E.U. sanctions against Iran aren't likely to force Iran to back down doesn't mean that Tehran isn't feeling the pain. P

09 Jul 2012 15:18:30 +0000 6 July, 2012 Article 1. The Wall Street Journal The Sources of the Next American Boom Michael S. Malone Article 2. Stratfor Halting Syrian Chaos Robert D. Kaplan and Kamran Bokhari Article 3. Forbes American Foreign Policy Must Take Into Account Dueling Irans Rob So

for two centuries. Because of its oil, because of its geostrategic location between two of the world's great energy sources, the Caspian Basin and the Persian Gulf, Tehran believes the country will always be a target for more powerful nations; but the shameful capitulations of history will be consigned to hist

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Thur 8/16/2012 1:59:38 PM Subject: August 15 update 15 August, 2012 Article 1. Stratfor The Israeli Crisis George Friedman Article 2. The Diplomat An Act of Self-Preservation: Why Iran Wants the Bomb David Patrikarakos Article 3.

Denuding U.S. forces in the region to enable a pivot to Asia 1s also risky. Nowhere else in the world is America more likely to deploy forces than in the Persian Gulf in opposition to Iran, and nowhere else is it of utmost importance that any potential confrontation be won decisively in the next five to ten years t

pt it under wraps for almost a week, finally attributing it to fumes from a faulty heater. An online report by the American private intelligence firm Stratfor suggested another cause — radioactive poisoning — and hinted that Mossad’s Caesarea section was back in business. Caesarea, named for an Israeli beac

Denuding U.S. forces in the region to enable a pivot to Asia is also risky. Nowhere else in the world is America more likely to deploy forces than in the Persian Gulf in opposition to Iran, and nowhere else is it of utmost importance that any potential confrontation be won decisively in the next five to ten years t

pt it under wraps for almost a week, finally attributing it to fumes from a faulty heater. An online report by the American private intelligence firm Stratfor suggested another cause - radioactive poisoning — and hinted that Mossad's Caesarea section was back in business. Caesarea, named for an Israeli beac

complex pieces of real estate in the world, is now finding that a foreign policy built on avoiding problems with neighbors grinds against reality. In STRATFOR's view, this was inevitable, which is why we took interest in Monday's issue of Today's Zaman, an English-language outlet loyal to the movement of Fe

the Palestine-Israel equation. Egypt's emerging détente with Iran is beginning to worry not only the United States and Israel, but also monarchies in the Persian Gulf. A year before the 2011 revolution, many prominent leaders in Egypt and the Arab world began to realize the value of normalized relations with Iran.