Iran's pattern is clear: escalate, absorb strikes, then call for talks by mediators from Qatar, Oman, Pakistan, or other Muslim Brotherhood allies that are trying to buy Iran time.

If Mamdani were to publish a map of neighborhoods 'from the river to the sea' and associated ethnicities, he would no doubt replicate the methodology he applied to his New York City map.

The United Nations was founded to make atrocities costly for those who commit or enable them but instead built a machine that absorbs those costs internally.

After almost half a century, it must now be clear to all that the Khomeinist regime is incapable of reforming itself unless it is for the worse.

The snag in Iran is that those who wish to make a deal dare not do so because they lack a popular street base within the Khomeinist movement.

A dictatorial regime that publicly tolerates calls for the assassination of the president of the United States cannot be treated as just another difficult adversary.

For Palestinians, UNRWA has become the international symbol of their demand that the remaining Palestinian refugees of 1948 and millions of their descendants be allowed to settle inside Israel.

So long as Iran's ruthless IRGC military regime is in place, there will not be real compliance or real peace.

Where the Islamabad MOU treated Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as the precondition, the Trilateral Framework inverts the order.

The lesson from all three—Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran—is that terrorist organizations do not surrender their weapons because diplomats ask them to.

A restored Iran would intensify pressure on neighbors, rebuild alliances with proxy militias, and pursue vengeance against external opponents.

Trump's experience of making peace in Gaza should also serve as a warning about Iran's willingness to comply with his peace demands.

Officials from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait reportedly resent being sidelined during the negotiations and complain that they were largely excluded from discussions that directly affect their security.

Trump prefers an agreement to another prolonged war, but he also understands that an agreement reached through weakness can produce an even greater conflict.

The truce touted by Trump will not end any of those wars, none of which is likely to end unless Iran breaks with Khomeinism and chooses another trajectory.

At the center of Mladenov's proposal is an astonishing assumption.

Do not listen to the liberal media outlets that are telling you to stop, de-escalate, or accept 20-year fake 'moratoriums' or other idiotic half-measures.

The message, along with other documents seized by the IDF over the past two years, exposes extensive strategic coordination between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.

The brave Iranian people represent millions of 'boots on the ground'—if only they would have the means to defend themselves to shift the balance of power.

Supposing that such a scheme does take shape and is implemented, who could guarantee that either Iran or a future US administration would abide by it?

The Islamic Republic survives by turning loyalty into a business model.

The fear now is that the Trump Administration is appearing to back away from its original demand of total regime change in Iran.

Critics often frame Iranian politics as a struggle between moderates and hardliners, but this distinction has repeatedly proven disastrously misleading.

By criminalizing people-to-people engagement, Arab and Muslim leaders and institutions send a powerful message to their populations: Peace with Israel is not merely undesirable but a crime.

Trump met Iran's moves with countermoves that were even stronger, instead of with restraint.

Despite facing continual expulsions, persecution, and pogroms in foreign lands, the Jewish people endure somehow.

For the Iranian regime and its proxies, survival equals victory. If they are not destroyed, if they retain their weapons, if they remain in power, they can claim success.

The idea that Iran's beleaguered people will suddenly, somehow, with no weapons whatsoever, magically rise up and take back their country from a regime armed to the teeth and with a rich record of mass murder is beyond delusional.

At its peak, Lebanon enjoyed one of the highest GDP per capita levels in the region and was regarded as a rare oasis of stability in a turbulent Middle East.

Al-Jazeera Arabic has repeatedly broadcast speeches by senior Hamas figures, such as Khaled Mashaal, Ismail Haniyeh, Saleh al-Arouri, Mohammed Deif and Khalil al-Hayya.

If this conflict accomplished nothing else, it has shown that Iran's ballistic missile program represents an existential danger to countries in both the Middle East and Europe.

Negotiations risk not only legitimizing an Islamist terror group but also entrenching its authoritarian rule in the Gaza Strip and paving the way for more massacres against Israel.

A ceasefire deal now would not resolve the underlying problem—it would freeze it in place temporarily while allowing the regime to recover.

Something fundamental has changed. The aura of inevitability has been broken. The image of invulnerability has been shattered. Fear has begun to change sides.

There is something deeply misguided – if not outright dangerous – about the idea that the US or other international parties should beg Hamas to lay down its weapons.

The US and the rest of the international community were wrong to assume that Hezbollah would honor the ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Tehran assumed that it enjoys the advantage of having a single war goal: survival.

For the first time in decades, truly courageous leadership has emerged in the presence of U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Some analysts describe an emerging 'Sunni axis,' or noose, influenced by Muslim Brotherhood ideology, backed by Turkish military power, financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and designed, by expanding into Gaza, to encircle and finish off Israel.

Having survived wars, sanctions, and internal unrest for nearly half a century, it calculates that patience can defeat even the most determined external pressure.