Emanuele Ottolenghi

“Far from being the harbinger of a more transparent and law-abiding Iran, the Zanjani trial is just an attempt to settle scores”

‘The very few actions the President has taken with regard to Syria have actually made matters worse’

“The West should acknowledge that a ground deployment of sorts is, ultimately, the only way to quash IS”

“Terrorism is first and foremost a problem of public security. But its defeat can only emerge from a battle of ideas against its ideological underpinnings”

‘Europe must force Iran to rethink its support for Assad, the main cause of Syrian misery and the migration crisis’

“The nuclear agreement is the best deal that Iran could have hoped for”

‘It is tempting to pretend that the mayhem unleashed by the Arab Spring will somehow not affect us. It will. It already does’

‘Four years of Western inaction in Syria have contributed to the crisis in the Mediterranean. So has our ill-conceived intervention in Libya’

Obama’s foreign policy has been defined by a failure to hold his ground against determined foes. The deal with Iran is his latest capitulation

‘The gulf between Israel and the Obama administration will continue after Netanyahu’s re-election’