Noah Rothman
@NoahCRothman · Jewish & Israel-focused media — US/UK
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review.
The Countdown to Iran’s ‘October Surprise’ https://t.co/RaDs66VPnu
"The Chinese have told us very clearly: You open the Strait of Hormuz, you do not charge [transit] fees, you resolve your issues with Saudi Arabia and the United States, before Ghalibaf comes to China." https://t.co/5CmoYAPTaK
“Meanwhile, the country's financial squeeze is itself biting into Tehran's efforts to get around the sanctions regime, leaving less cash to pay the high premiums required to skirt sanctions illicitly... That effort is making Iran's existing sanctions evasion networks - front companies, unregistered tankers and smuggling - too expensive to use, the three senior sources said.” https://t.co/CFlEKjrhvm
Life Inside Iran Is Becoming Intolerable https://t.co/ovYudWP28F
There is a one-man constituency for this sort of thing. It can be grudgingly tolerated when the economy is going gangbusters, and we aren’t losing a war against a third-rate Islamist dictatorship. This only deepens the existential anxiety overtaking Rs.
No One Who Bought the Gaza Starvation Narrative Deserves to Be Taken Seriously https://t.co/uiU9sWY0sN
Either Israel has pulled off the greatest disappearing act in human history or the famine we were supposed to obsess ourselves with in the spring of 2025 never happened. https://t.co/uiU9sWY0sN
No One Who Bought the Gaza Starvation Narrative Deserves to Be Taken Seriously https://t.co/uiU9sWY0sN
Trump Urged to Surrender Quickly in Hormuz Before Success Becomes an Option https://t.co/Y6NPTdLwzS
Blinded by AIPAC https://t.co/slClQy83ne
Lost in all this jocularity is the fact that they were fleeing a mature Iranian assassination plot targeting Air Force One.