Shay Khatiri has a decade of experience as a foreign and defense policy professional and writer, including at the Yorktown Institute and Jewish Institute for National Security of America. He is an immigrant from Iran and studied strategic studies and international economics at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, where he was the Ambassador Andreas Baum fellow. He and his bulldog Tank reside in Arizona.
Mancini also failed to scrutinize any of El-Sayed’s arguments. The old rule in journalism, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out,” is no longer operational.
“Reduced U.S. interests in the Middle East” is a fantasy, stemming from the illusion of U.S. oil independence. One would think that rising gas prices would have ended this myth by now after exposing how U.S. prices still reflect global production. On top of that, U.S. allies and partners in Asia and Europe, which Walldorf elevates as priorities, need Middle Eastern oil for their own economies.
Several statutes require the executive branch to report the provision of aid to Congress and explain how Israel uses it according to those constraints.
Foreign Policy’s misstep here isn’t sharing Vaez’s perspective. Rather, it is doing so while concealing information that would help its audience judge Vaez’s credibility and independence, or lack thereof.
Perhaps Moaveni does not touch on any of Iran’s countless aggressions because even she cannot justify them, so she decides that it is best not to remind readers of the list.