Simon Waldman

Dr Simon A. Waldman is an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and a visiting research fellow at King's College London.

Articles

America

Assassinating Soleimani was a prudent step

Following last week’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the general of Iran’s elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, the Trump administration has come in for a fair bit of criticism. For some the US can do no right, and even the assassination of a figure as despicable as Soleimani still provokes instinctive disapproval […]

Politics

Why Iran is risking war with Saudi Arabia and America

Although the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing plant, the audacious operation looks like the handiwork of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is even emerging that the drones or cruise missiles were fired directly from Iranian soil. Stirrings of war are on the horizon. President Donald Trump […]

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