Persia Under Siege That Time Pentagon Wargamed a War With Iran and the ‘Red Team’ Player Sent Its Carrier Group to the Bottom of the Sea Rather than learn from it the brass then stepped in and rewrote the rules of the exercise Tom O’Connor 20 May 19 1291 4
Persia Under Siege Saudi Paper, Owned by Crown Prince’s Brother, Urges US ‘Surgical Strikes’ on Iran Saudis say Trump already established the precedent when he cruise missiled Syria twice Jason Ditz 17 May 19 349 4
Persia Under Siege Empire’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Provokes Iran’s Unyielding Resistance US is the stronger party on paper but helpless to prevail when defiance and survival are victory enough for Tehran Daniel Larison 16 May 19 268 0
Persia Under Siege British General in Baghdad Says No Truth to US Claims Iran Is Mobilizing to Attack American Forces Bolton wants a war, the Brits do not Kattie Bo Williams 15 May 19 522 5
Persia Under Siege Iran Crisis Exposes the EU as a Second-Rate Power in Thrall to Trump Trump is easily wielding the inflated power of the US Treasury against Iran and EU alike Patrick Cockburn 13 May 19 452 2
Persia Under Siege Bolton Is Doing Everything He Can to Instigate a War With Iran The strategy has been to try to pressure and goad Iran into doing something—anything—that could be construed as a casus belli. Paul Pillar 8 May 19 1085 18
Persia Under Siege US to Sanction Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution US to sanction Europeans if they do what Iran nuclear deal and UNSC 2231 command them to Peter Jenkins 8 May 19 497 4
Persia Under Siege Iran Mocks Bolton for ‘Unskilled’ Use of Carrier Deployment as ‘Psychological Warfare’ Bolton bills USS Abe Lincoln an "unmistakable message" and "unrelenting force" — Tehran yawns RT 8 May 19 733 2