Media Tip Sheets

Expert Analysis on Middle East Tensions

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, By Vanessa Marquette
If you are looking for an expert to discuss tensions in the Middle East, retired Vice Admiral Robert Murrett is available for interviews. Murrett is a professor of practice at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and deputy director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law. His comments about the current situation are below. If you’d like to schedule an interview with him, please reach out to Vanessa Marquette, media relations specialist, at vrmarque@syr.edu.
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Robert Murrett

Robert Murrett

Murrett writes: “This week’s attack on coalition troops at Al Assad airbase in Iraq underscores the wide-ranging interests that the U.S. has in the Middle East, as well as the options that Tehran has to mount operations with its surrogate forces in the region. Of particular interest, the U.S. and our partner nations deployed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) continue to conduct successful operations against insurgent affiliated with ISIL in Iraq and elsewhere. Iran will likely continue to carefully calibrate retaliatory attacks in the Middle East and adjacent waters, and telegraph intentions and objectives that we will have to deal with well into the future.”