The Day After the Ayatollahs
What would the Middle East look like if the ayatollah regime in Iran fell – and what would happen if Israel and Iran became partners?
What would the Middle East look like if the ayatollah regime in Iran fell – and what would happen if Israel and Iran became partners?
Islam is both a religion and a political-legal ideology. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Islam is violent – but at the textual and historical core of Islam there is a sovereign aspiration, not just a spiritual one.
There is nothing more dangerous than a violent ideology that everyone insists on presenting as a misrepresentation.
There are moments in history when you feel the ground move. Not an earthquake – more like an old wooden table that an empire was built on, and suddenly someone discovers that one of the legs has been eaten by termites.
This is what Iran looks like in 2026.
One of the sophisticated arts of modern political Islam is moral bilingualism.
One does not need to know two languages - but to know to whom one is allowed to speak.
In a world where terrorists hide in caves, stir up dust, and run websites from broken keyboards, there is also Qatar.
A sleazy emirate in the Persian Gulf with grand ambitions – to become the nerve center of global political Islam. Or to be precise: the octopus head of global jihad.