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Amir Taheri
Isis Is Not Invincible — If The West Has The Will
IS is just the latest in a long line of Islamist terror groups to attack France. But a study of military history shows how it can be destroyed
Amir Taheri
Features
Obama’s Iran Deal Makes The World More Dangerous
The President’s supporters call the nuclear agreement his most significant foreign policy achievement. They are right — but for the wrong reasons
Amir Taheri
Features
Why the West Can’t Do Business With Iran
Obama persists in trying to talk to a regime whose “sacred cause” is to replace a US-led world order with an Islamic one
Amir Taheri
Features
International
Iran
US Politics
A Democratic Beacon in the Fractious Arab World
Nearly a decade after the US overthrew Saddam Hussein, Iraq is emerging as an increasingly free and prosperous society
Amir Taheri
Features
Iraq
An Islamist Winter?
While Islamists have prospered from the Arab Spring, they are not dominant. But vigilance is needed to protect the flame of freedom
Amir Taheri
Features
Middle East
A Military Solution for Afghanistan
Now that the insurgency is cracking, the time has come for Nato to send more troops into the war zone to finish off the job
Amir Taheri
Afghanistan
Defence
Features
Military
War on Terror
How Do We Deal with Tehran?
Two new books on Iran and its nuclear ambitions raise the question of how the West should respond
Amir Taheri
Features
Beware the Obama Machine
When I drew attention to the two-faced tactics of the Democratic candidate over Iraq, his ‘militants’ turned nasty
Amir Taheri
Features
North America
Obama
US Politics
Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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