Shay Khatiri

Shay Khatiri
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.

Anti-Strategic Thinking at Foreign Policy

“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.

Foreign Policy Hosts an Islamic Republic Propagandist

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.