William Harris is a scholar of Middle Eastern politics with expertise in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. He contributed analysis to The Weekly Standard on topics including Hezbollah, Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the Syrian regime's atrocities. He is a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand and author of several books on Lebanese and broader Levantine politics.
Article 7 of the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines "crimes against humanity" as "murder" and other "inhumane acts" committed "as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population." It would be hard to find a clearer case of such offenses…
When Iran gets the bomb, the nuclear club will have a crucial new feature. Without an Iranian bomb and barring regime change in Pakistan, we know that no nuclear power will transfer a device to a private army of the religious elect like Hezbollah in Lebanon. With an Iranian bomb, such assurance…