The Foreign Minister, Adam Rotfeld, assures that it will not be a political operation of placing people connected with the present government in embassies and consulates.

It went virtually unnoticed (and unreported by this newspaper), but last week a federal court found the government of Iran liable for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

There are some similarities between the seizure of the U.S. embassy and the attack against the British embassy, and history indeed seems to be repeating itself.

The Ahmed Ghailani case underscores the necessity of Obama's quiet decision to change course and lift the ban he imposed after his inauguration on new military commission trials at Guantanamo.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

The failure of Kurdish leaders to fulfill their diplomatic agenda extends beyond the latest Turkish incursion. Turkey's occupations, however, provide the Kurdistan Regional Government with an opportunity.

Rather than hide chemical agents where they can be uncovered, the Iraqis more likely dispersechemical agentsto their embassies, safe houses and agents abroad, as well as to sympathetic or affluent terrorists.

Because of the Obama administration's reluctance to confront this looming threat, others—such as the Republican presidential candidates—must begin preparing the case for a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear program.