ANALYSIS: Is Iran’s intransigence whiplashing onto its population?
ANALYSIS: Is Iran’s intransigence whiplashing onto its population? An Iranian woman after rubbing mud on her body during a ritual to mark the Ashura in Khorramabad on October 1, 2017. By Heshmat Alavi Al Arabiya, 2 October 2017 -Iran’s aggressions across the Middle East and its support for terrorist and fundamentalist organizations have raised strong remarks from senior regional officials and their American counterparts. And the impact is whiplashing back into Iran’s population. Iran is ramping up its illicit activities across the Middle East, especially in Syria and Iraq, and threatens free navigation in international waters, according to the US military’s top officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, as he explained his concerns to the Senate Armed Forces Committee at a recent hearing. Last month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York was the scene of many foreign ministers and other senior officials maki...