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.

CAMERA Op-Ed: Journalists should start calling Iran an empire

"Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said that Iran had to decide whether it wanted to be a nation or a cause," CAMERA's Shay Khatiri writes for JNS, adding, "But Iran had already decided that it wanted to be a cause and an empire."
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference

Is Israel Trapping America or Pulling It Out of One?

The Newsweek article follows up on a previous editorial, warning Trump to avoid “losing control” over Israel, which was “increasingly aggressive” as an actor. This argument stands on a fallacy, that the interests of the United States and Israel in the Middle East don’t align.