Ubiquitous in the major media in the run-up to and aftermath of the Iraq war debacle and a long-time advocate of "regime change" by whatever means in Iran, the "prince of darkness," Washington's leading neoconservative operative for several decades, seems almost to have entirely disappeared from public view.

Where is Richard Perle?

A pretty exhaustive search on Google and in Nexis-Lexis found only a couple of instances where he was interviewed about the Iran deal at any length. Both appeared on the right-wing "NewsMax" website. On March 3 this year, he commented on Bibi Netanyahu's controversial speech to a joint session of Congress: "it was an excellent speech and should put behind us the controversy over whether he should've been invited. "And on March 23, he predicted that the deal between Tehran and the P5+1 was headed for a "crash landing" due to congressional opposition. On April 28, he was also interviewed in a video produced by the Wilson Center, but the main subject was the effectiveness of sanctions against other countries. The Iran sanctions "should've been part of a strategy for regime change," he opined.