POINTS EAST & WEST
April 2019
‘Russia successfully meddles in Western politics, but I now worry more about China’
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April 2016
"Far from being the harbinger of a more transparent and law-abiding Iran, the Zanjani trial is just an attempt to settle scores"
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March 2016
‘The very few actions the President has taken with regard to Syria have actually made matters worse’
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January/February 2016
"The West should acknowledge that a ground deployment of sorts is, ultimately, the only way to quash IS"
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Points East & West
Emanuele Ottolenghi’s monthly column on international politics and the Middle East, written from Brussels.
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