Bolton is only a by-product of a general policy environment in Washington continually primed to directly confront Iran.


Kevin Schwartz is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
Bolton is only a by-product of a general policy environment in Washington continually primed to directly confront Iran.

The imperial-age idea of the ‘conspiratorial Muslim’ has re-emerged with new force and scope.

The use of proxies must be treated with the scrutiny for the potential ill-effects it may hold.
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