Nadim Koteich

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to Washington and his historic speech in Congress have rekindled hope in an alliance of democracies. To the centrist American elites from both parties who share this aspiration, his visit indicates that such an alliance is possible and that faith in…

Has the West woken up to the fact that Iran is a global problem rather than a regional problem limited to the Middle East? The international community’s misguided view of the Iranian project has led to this project being framed within the context of confessional competition between Sunnis and…

The American mind thinks in binaries. After the Cold War had split the globe between the communist and free worlds, George W. Bush split the world into two “camps:” an axis of good and an axis of evil. Today, President Joe Biden, per the 2022 US Department of Homeland Security Strategy, has…

Iran’s decision to abolish the so-called morality police - which we have no way of verifying - and a few state agencies reviewing the mandatory veil law represent a hopeless attempt similar to what many other regimes have taken before falling. It is too little too late. Neither the scale of…

We should be grateful to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for admitting to the role that his country plays in the Arab world. In a series of tweets from his English account, Khamenei put forward his vision of a Western conspiracy that Iran had foiled. “From the Westerners’ point of view,…

Because of the degree to which the United States’ behavior on human rights is politicized, it often seems like no other country has dealt more blows to this matter. It does so firstly through its excessive moralistic and public emphasis on the issue. Secondly, it makes too many deals with violators…

The maritime border demarcation agreement between Lebanon and Israel, which was brokered by the US and approved by Hezbollah and was followed by Nouri al-Maliki (Iran’s man in Iraq) managing to bring his prime ministerial candidate to office after having benefited from Muqtada al-Sadr’s “exit” from…

The White House has gone too far in its reaction to the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production by two million barrels a day. The decision was framed as a Saudi attack on the US aimed at influencing the midterm elections by raising the price American voters pay for oil and fueling resentment at the…

Whether it is brief or continues for an extended period, the world is undergoing an exceptional moment that can be summed up in a scene we will almost inevitably see: Moscow and Tehran drowning in crises of their own making. I do not remember ever seeing the ice-cold face Putin puts on in front…

The immense changes we have seen since 9/11 have not changed what this ominous day for the future of international relations and our region’s ties to the rest of the world stands for. The ramifications of this crime perpetrated by Al-Qaeda remain at the heart of the series of events that have…