lah" that it does not "care about sectarian differences or religious differences" when it comes to making money. Fernandez, who was speaking at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, added, "We've seen them working with Sunni criminals, Christian criminals — and even with Jewish crime syndicates." Op-Ed: Hezbollah A Key Factor

the most extensive effort to catalog what a nuclear-armed Iran might do outside its borders is a monograph published last year by Ash Jain of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Jain's inventory of possible Iranian nastiness is comprehensive, ranging from strong-arming Persian Gulf states to expanding a strategic relations

utility of the sanctions policy and the exemptions granted to China, India and other countries in Asia. Patrick Clawson, an Iran specialist at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), laid out a detailed argument explaining why economic sanctions won't work, and he concluded bluntly that success "may require a profound s

to the exhortations by former U.S. State Department and White House official Dennis Ross — a stalwart of the pro-Israel scene from his post at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy — that the United States should withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending

macy, if anything, even more than they did before," said Dennis B. Ross, one of Mr. Obama's senior advisers on Iran until last year and now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "It's not like they have any other good news right now." Moreover, Mr. Ross said, Iran's recent statements signal that its leaders are preparing