The consequences could be felt across the Middle East for decades

Israel started the Iran war. Only America can finish it

Its default is to defy aggressors, not to capitulate

Donald Trump prefers deals to regime change

The president demands “unconditional surrender” from the clerical regime

The consequences could be felt across the Middle East for decades

The president’s strategy has been transformed by Israeli persistence and Iranian defiance

Much hinges on the stubborn supreme leader and America’s mercurial president

The president is unreliable. The Islamic Republic is inflexible

War with Israel has put the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader back in his Manichean comfort zone