M. Reza Behnam
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Welcoming War Criminals (opens the original)
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The International Criminal Court’s issuance of arrest warrants for high-ranking Israeli officials marked a litmus test for global stewardship, writes M. Reza Behram. International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. (Vysotsky, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th century atrocities, with the solemn vow that regardless of station in life, wealth or powe
Gulf Arabs & Subsidized Occupation (opens the original)
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The pivot of Arab Gulf states away from historical Arab nationalism to Western alignment has sacrificed the Palestinian cause to transactional diplomacy and dynastic preservation, writes M. Reza Behnam. President Donald Trump’s motorcade being escorted by Saudi Royal Guard riding Arabian horses at the Royal Court Palace, May 13, 2025. (White House /Daniel Torok) The modern Middle East suffers from a consequentially glaring paradox: oil-rich Arab states undoubtedly possess some of the most concen
Perception of Iran: Veils, Beards & the Bomb (opens the original)
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The American understanding of Iran is a triumph of geopolitical minimalism, writes M. Reza Behnam, reducing a country with millennia-old legacy as a sophisticated and culturally vibrant civilization to a holy trinity of stereotypes. Tehran’s Azadi “Freedom Tower” monument. (Shayan Hamidi /Unsplash) Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to an American colleague: why do figures like Donald Trump continue to get elec
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