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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 9, 2017


Chris Riotta, IBTimes: Will Iran Attack The US? Strait Of Hormuz Intensifies As Navy Destroyer Fires Warning Shots Toward Speeding Ships

The USS Mahan, a U.S. Navy destroyer nicknamed "built to fight," fired three warning shots Sunday toward four Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a politically strategic and often disputed strait between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. The incident was spurred after the four Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ships sped toward the Navy warship, seemingly out of nowhere, while failing to respond to U.S. officials repeated requests for them to slow down, Reuters reported Monday morning.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 9, 2017

Analysis: After Rafsanjani, Iran at a political crossroads -- AP

Iran Just Lost Its Most Influential Power-Broker. Now, Everything Could Change. -- Kay Armin Serjoie, Time

How Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s Death Will Empower the Ayatollah -- Reza Haghighat Nejad, Daily Beast/Iran Wire

Hezbollah Is the Real Winner of the Battle of Aleppo -- Sulome Anderson, Newsweek

Will Syria's conflict redraw the map of the Middle East? -- Euronews

ISIS Has a New Weapon: Fire -- Michael Daly, Daily Beast

Why is Baghdad removing checkpoints during security crisis? -- Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor

Turkey in grip of fear as Erdoğan steps up post-terror attack crackdown -- Andrew Finkel, The Guardian

Democrats are about to do a 180 on foreign policy. Just you wait. -- Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week

Democrats are playing with fire on Russia -- Normon Solomon, The Hill

Trump and Grand Strategy -- Jon Herrmann, RCD

Trump will shake up the international order, too -- Peter Morici, Washington Times

How China Can Stop Trumpism -- Michael Schuman, Bloomberg

Running on Fumes: Pandemonium at Mexico’s Gas Pumps -- Andrea Noel, Daily Beast

Is the Japan-South Korea 'comfort women' deal falling apart? -- Julian Ryall, DW

Is Great Britain Preparing for a War with China? -- Michael Peck, National Interest

Is Europe Disintegrating? -- Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books

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