And while Iran will play out by its own logic, there is no question that if the other big, predominantly Shiite state in the region, the one right next door, the one called Iraq, were to become a reasonably decent, democratizing polity of the sort Iranians are demanding for themselves, it would pressure..…

Coined by Jordan's King Abdullah, Shiite Crescent extends from Iran through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon and threatens Middle East's status quo. ..…

Where the outlook with Pyongyang is for the moment relatively stable, however, with Tehran it is open to escalating conflict.     . ..…