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* Daniel Greenfield: Why Are We Following Qatar's Foreign Policy on Iran?
* Nima Gholam Ali Pour: Where is the EU? Refuses to Designate Iran's Brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a Terrorist Organization
* Lawrence Kadish: Europe's Historic Fear: 'The Americanization of the World'


** Why Are We Following Qatar's Foreign Policy on Iran? ([link removed])
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by Daniel Greenfield • January 27, 2026 at 5:00 am
* From Syria to Gaza to Iran, Qatar is hijacking the Trump administration.
* Syria's Al Qaeda regime is massacring Kurds to free imprisoned ISIS terrorists, state sponsors of Hamas in Turkey and Qatar are being named to boards running Gaza and thousands of democracy protesters are being massacred in Iran while Al Jazeera defends the regime.
* This isn't American foreign policy, but it is Qatar's foreign policy.
* [A]s thousands die in Iran after empty promises of support, there is a bigger picture here of institutional capture by a tiny and powerful Islamic terrorist state.
* There is a consistent throughline here and it isn't America First, it isn't "isolationism", it isn't Israel and it isn't MAGA, but it very much is Qatar along with its Islamist allies: Turkey and Iran. And this throughline has an ominous similarity to Obama's New Middle East policy and the way that it consistently empowered Islamist takeovers and protected Iran's Islamist terror regime.
* Iranian protesters are being massacred, and Hamas and Al Qaeda are being propped up, not because it serves our national interests, but because it serves Qatar's Jihadist agenda.
* Qatar's foreign policy objectives have been consistent and clear. It elevates and props up Islamic Jihadists and then offers its services in 'negotiating' with them. That means bringing an Al Qaeda affiliate to power in Syria, bringing the Taliban to power in Afghanistan through a fake deal during the first Trump administration, helping Hamas maximize its gains from Oct 7, and preserving the Islamic terrorist regime of the Ayatollahs that it is allied with in Tehran.
* Whatever their agendas are, there is little doubt about what they've done and who benefits.
* What ISIS couldn't accomplish in Syria with suicide bombings, it managed to pull off by putting Al-Jolani, now Ahmed Al-Sharaa, in a suit, and the world watched while ISIS terrorists were sprung from their jails, much as the Taliban had freed Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists after Qatar masterminded a deal with the Taliban that, much like Hamas, they were never going to keep.
* This isn't MAGA, it's not America First, it's Obama sneaking back in wearing a red cap. And the same domestic and foreign enemies who were behind that one are behind this one too.
* The question of Israel is a distraction from the real subject, the one that we're not talking about, of why we're propping up Al Qaeda and Iran, and what it really means about who's in control of foreign policy.
* The real question is why are we supporting Islamic terrorists and who's calling the shots?
* The Trump administration is not the first administration to be torn apart by malicious factions, and the best evidence of that is how different Trump's great foreign policy in Asia, Europe and Latin America is from his policy in the Middle East. The president is being badly served by infiltrators acting on behalf of special interests, and it's time to clean Qatar out of MAGA.
* Rather than learning our lesson from 9/11, we let Qatar control our policy. And the only question is how many have to die this time before we take back our foreign policy from the terrorists?

From Syria to Gaza to Iran, Qatar is hijacking the Trump administration. Iranian protesters are being massacred, and Hamas and Al Qaeda are being propped up, not because it serves American national interests, but because it serves Qatar's Jihadist agenda. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at a joint press conference in Doha on October 2, 2024. (Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)

From Syria to Gaza to Iran, Qatar is hijacking the Trump administration.

Syria's Al Qaeda regime is massacring Kurds to free imprisoned ISIS terrorists, state sponsors of Hamas in Turkey and Qatar are being named to boards running Gaza, and thousands of democracy protesters are being massacred in Iran while Al Jazeera defends the regime.

This isn't American foreign policy, but it is Qatar's foreign policy.

The White House's foreign policy in the Muslim world is now virtually identical to Qatar's foreign policy apart from Israel. And as thousands die in Iran after empty promises of support, there is a bigger picture here of institutional capture by a tiny and powerful Islamic terrorist state.

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** Where is the EU? Refuses to Designate Iran's Brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a Terrorist Organization ([link removed])
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by Nima Gholam Ali Pour • January 27, 2026 at 4:30 am
* The European Union has still not designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization. This requires a unanimous decision within the Foreign Affairs Council, a decision-making body of the EU, chaired by the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas. Countries such as France, Italy, Spain, and Luxembourg are still blocking such a terrorist designation, despite the fact that tens of thousands of Iranians have been murdered this month. As of this writing, the number of killed by the regime is estimated at 36,500, with 330,000-360,000 wounded, including 7,000 eye injuries documented from one hospital alone. This says a great deal about the gap between words and actions among certain European leaders. There is much talk about values, but little is done to uphold them.
* Even if the EU were not to stand up for human rights in Iran, one would expect the EU to stand up for its own security.
* Unfortunately, there have been far too many European politicians maintaining close relationships with Iran's regime.
* The Iranian people have risen up against a barbaric regime that represents everything the EU should oppose.

The EU must also decide once and for all whether it merely wants to talk about Western values and human rights or actually stand up for them when it truly matters: Now. The Iranian people have risen up against a barbaric regime that represents everything the EU should oppose. Israel and the United States stand ready to help. Where is the EU? Pictured: Iranians protest against their regime on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Anonymous/Getty Images)

The extreme violence used by the mullahs' regime to crush the protests in Iran confirms that external support is required to free the Iranian people from the regime's tyranny.

Unarmed civilians confronting armed and indoctrinated militiamen and soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) can only result in a bloodbath. Through the massacre carried out on January 8-9, the mullahs' regime has demonstrated that it acts more like an occupying power. Iran is a country that needs to be liberated, and the Iranian people need the support of the international community.

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** Europe's Historic Fear: 'The Americanization of the World' ([link removed])
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by Lawrence Kadish • January 27, 2026 at 4:00 am
In 1901, British journalist William Thomas Stead published a provocative and surprising foresighted examination of America's growing global influence at the start of the 20^th century. His central thought was that the United States, through its industrial might, technological innovation, and cultural exports, was creating a new form of empire. Today's European leaders should go back and read Stead's insight regarding how America has played a role in defining Europe and much of the world. Pictured: Stead in 1900. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump's strategic decision to reorder our relationship with Europe may be startling Old World diplomats, but that is because they do not know their own history.

In 1901, British journalist William Thomas Stead published The Americanization of the World. It was a provocative and surprising foresighted examination of America's growing global influence at the start of the 20^th century.

Stead wrote that American power was reshaping international commerce, culture, and politics in unprecedented ways. His central thought was that the United States, through its industrial might, technological innovation, and cultural exports, was creating a new form of empire. It must have been stunning for the British author because his Victorian world was built on colonial conquest. Meanwhile, America was becoming a global competitor by creating economic dominance.

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