Bryan R. Gibson is a PhD candidate in International History at the London School of Economics and author of <em>Covert Relationship: American Foreign Policy, Intelligence and the Iran–Iraq War</em>.

Holding Hormuz Hostage

[caption id="attachment_55228859" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="The Al Bakra oil terminal in the north Arabian Gulf - just one of the…

Going Red?

[caption id="attachment_55235526" align="alignnone" width="620"]US President Richard Nixon and with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger arrived…

Obama and the Persian Dilemma

[caption id="attachment_55235403" align="alignnone" width="620"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President…

A Special Relationship?

[caption id="attachment_55235355" align="alignleft" width="660"] Then-British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and US President Lyndon B. Johnson…

Saddam Hussein: Paranoid Narcissist?

[caption id="attachment_55234924" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saddam Hussein on trial in 2006[/caption]It has been almost six years since the…

Inside Washington: Bruce Riedel

[caption id="attachment_55234829" align="alignnone" width="600"] Bruce Reidel[/caption] Bruce Riedel has served in the National Security Council …

Learning from the Past

[caption id="attachment_55234804" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Memorandum from the US National Security Council regarding a briefing for…

Back Channel

[caption id="attachment_55234774" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and US President Barack Obama. (credit:…

Turning a Blind Eye

[caption id="attachment_55234653" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian soldier wearing a mask against chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein.[…

Questioning Complicity

[caption id="attachment_55234492" align="alignnone" width="545"] Abdel Karim Qassem with delegates to an Afro–Asian solidarity meeting in Baghdad.[…