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Gregg Roman is an investigative journalist specializing in Middle East security and politics.
Iran
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Nov 2, 2026
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4 min read
The Forum went to the satellites over 43 bases to map the force that would fight a second round with Iran. Then Rubio's two answers, Tehran's two-day plan, the Netanyahu call, Israel's coalition calendar, Michigan and The Number.
+7
Nov 1, 2026
15 min read
Two days before the vote: what a Democratic House could and could not do about the Iran war, the fight against Islamist influence and the alliances in the region, and why the decisions that matter will be made in the eight weeks before it sits.
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7 min read
Treasury's report on its Iran campaign reached the President on Thursday and the press on Friday; it says the blockade and sanctions have crippled Iran's economy, and officials in Tehran describe the same shortages from their side. The same day the capital's Friday prayer leader asked for a new nuclear doctrine. Then Israel, Michigan, Beirut and the Security Council.
US Policy
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Oct 29, 2026
10 min read
The Forum's new site puts 928 statements from 36 Michigan institutions on the institutions' own video, beside the $47.4 million in public money 12 of them received and the officials who honored them. The Detroit center whose Friday prayer asked God to kill Netanyahu's soldiers "leaving none of them" received $45 million, most of it school-meal money paid through Lansing.
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6 min read
The police found no evidence for Likud's theft claim, the elections committee's chairman gave the Shin Bet a week to test a suspicion of foreign money, and the soldiers' ballots moved one seat inside Netanyahu's bloc and one among the Arab parties. Then Vance's letter to Tehran, Lebanon, Gaza, the Gulf, Damascus and Belgrade.
+6
Oct 28, 2026
9 min read
The 10 p.m. exit polls had Netanyahu beaten and the ballots did not. With 89.8 percent of the vote in, his bloc has 53 seats, Eisenkot’s 48 and the Arab parties a record 19; nobody has 61, and the double envelopes settle the last dozen seats tomorrow.
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Oct 27, 2026
11 min read
Israel’s turnout ran ahead of every election its committee has measured, Likud asked for an extra hour without saying why, and the exit polls come tonight. Then Iran’s strike plans, the Gulf, Hezbollah, Hamas, Washington and Europe.
+5
Oct 26, 2026
23 min read
A reader says pistols, not rifles; readers say I called failure on Iran too soon; a San Diego publisher asks whether CAIR's definition is wrong on its merits; and a 101-year-old says there cannot be a Jewish republic. 169 letters answered, the afternoon before Israel votes.
Oct 25, 2026
16 min read
Israel votes on Tuesday with Iran’s threats, the prime minister’s mushroom-cloud post, and a record number of complaints before the elections committee. Israel’s law already says what happens to a vote under attack. The longer question is why a state whose rules can be rewritten by 61 votes treats every election as a matter of survival, and what the next Knesset can do about it.
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Oct 23, 2026
8 min read
Kushner denies a book's claim about Gulf money; the private meetings among Jerusalem, Washington and the Arab capitals go back to 1947. Then the Hebron attack, Israel's vote at four days, the strait, the Gulf, Gaza, Lebanon and France.
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Oct 22, 2026
The last American troops left Iraq for Jordan three weeks ago; two carrier groups are in the Arabian Sea with a third on the way; the embassy in Riyadh is sending its families home; and after a week of mediation, Tehran's answer is "not a single gram [of nuclear material]."
Oct 21, 2026
The Forum publishes three years of prayers for killing from the Islamic Center of Detroit, and federal spending records list the mosque as the recipient of about $45 million since 2017, $31 million of it in a single Agriculture Department entry.
Oct 20, 2026
Three Iranian officials tell Reuters that Tehran is prolonging the talks to deny President Trump a win before November 3; Hegseth meets Netanyahu and Katz at Ovda; the Guards claim an MQ-9 shot down over the strait; Lavrov sits with Araghchi in Tehran; and the Tehran daily Kayhan calls for strikes on Israel’s nuclear sites.
Oct 19, 2026
President Trump gives Netanyahu his “Complete and Total Endorsement” and says the United States will “soon finish the job” in Iran; Netanyahu says “listen to him,” Eisenkot says Israelis “are the only ones who will decide,” Araghchi says “Be our guest,” and Gantz leaves the race.
Islamist Influence
Oct 18, 2026
18 min read
France’s worst unrest in years began at a high school in Créteil that was missing a mathematics teacher. What the state left in the suburbs, who moved in, which party stood at the school gates this fall, and what the Islamists did.
Oct 16, 2026
The President says Israel has "been very helpful to Saudi Arabia" and the Accords are possible "maybe more than ever," rules out nuclear weapons and ground troops in Iran, and Treasury cuts an Iraqi bank out of the dollar.
Oct 15, 2026
The coalition reports a Houthi missile over Medina and Aramco's top floors are gutted, two ships go down in the strait, and the President says of Iran: "that's going to end very soon."
What the October 27 election is about, who leads each of the lists, and what can happen after the polls close. A guide for readers outside Israel, with no side taken.
Oct 14, 2026
A Houthi missile strikes Aramco’s headquarters complex in Dhahran, four are wounded in Riyadh by debris from intercepted missiles, Iranian officials tell Reuters the aim in Hormuz is to keep oil high until the American vote, and the President says of Iran: “We’ve had it”
Oct 13, 2026
The President says the Houthis are hitting Saudi Arabia at Iran’s behest to drive up oil prices before the elections and promises a decision on Iran “very soon,” as the Saudi coalition strikes Sanaa and the Houthis fire missiles at Riyadh and Dhahran
Oct 12, 2026
A Houthi missile kills 13 at Riyadh’s main airport, one of them an American, the President says the United States may join Saudi Arabia’s strikes, and Tehran calls Washington’s reply on Hormuz insufficient
Oct 11, 2026
In the war on Iran, the United States has a cyber advantage it has used quietly and a messaging habit it keeps funding loudly. The next phase should reverse the order.
Oct 7, 2026
12 min read
In July 2023 a paper presented in the Knesset was right about Gaza and changed nothing in time. Three years later the warning concerns Israel’s alliance with the United States, and the decisions that fall between now and January.
Oct 6, 2026
City records show CAIR drafted the definition of “Islamophobia” that San Diego adopted, the Mecca pact orders forces to Saudi Arabia, and Yemen’s government says it has retaken the coast at Bab el-Mandeb
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Oct 4, 2026
17 min read
San Diego’s new definition of “Islamophobia” was drafted in the local office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group named in a Hamas-financing case and designated a terrorist organization by two American governors. Nearly 2,000 pages of city records show how it happened.
