The Iraqi Jewish archive, currently undergoing restoration in the United States, is scheduled to be returned to the Iraqi government. It wasn’t theirs to begin with.

Rescued from the headquarters of Saddam Hussein’s secret police in 2003, the Iraqi Jewish Archive was flown to the U.S. for safekeeping. Next year, it. . .

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.