Ali Khamenei’s “near-pathological obsession with Jews and Israel.”

For the ayatollahs, it’s a precondition for redeeming Islam.

By confusing the Iranian people with the regime.

How Western policymakers fundamentally misunderstand the Middle East.

It’s established de-facto control over much of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.

Contrary to popular belief, Hizballah was not founded to resist Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon but to lay the groundwork for Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 assumption. . .

Just as it did during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian regime hopes to hold together a fragmented nation by fomenting a permanent state of revolutionary crisis.