As Ed wrote earlier today, there’s some level of confidence that the US strike on Fordow succeeded in destroying the underground lab where Iran was using centrifuges to enrich uranium. We won’t know for certain for a long time because at the moment no one can get to Fordow to inspect whether anything is […]

What does it say that a professor at Georgetown University–an Episcopalian, no less–is calling for Iran to strike US bases in the Middle East? Nothing good. And he is not alone. Other professors at American universities have expressed similar or worse sentiments.  At first, it would seem an odd […]

A year ago, the regime in Tehran had the Biden administration cowed into suppressing Israeli action against the country. Iran has told the United States that it will attack Israel directly unless the Biden administration secures a ceasefire in Gaza, according to an Arab diplomatic source who spoke with Jadeh Iran. The ultimatum follows […]

Ranked choice voting makes predicting even not-so-close races difficult sometimes, and when the poll numbers are close, all bets are off.  Well, not all bets. Polymarket is doing a brisk business, and the gamblers there think Zohran Mamdani is likely to win the Democratic Party primary that ends tomorrow.  […]

And we have some lovely dachas on the trendy part of Moscow, tovarisch.  Iran’s foreign minister flew to Moscow yesterday, ostensibly to get Russia to engage as a counterweight in its 46-year war against the US and Israel. Instead, Abbas Araghchi got plenty of sympathy from Vladimir Putin … and not much else. Putin […]