U.S. Navy destroyer fires warning shots at Iranian vessels: U.S. officials: https://t.co/RQ7tc2HBtT? http://pic.twitter.com/Pwzmw1sgCx— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 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
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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