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September 18, 2015 Our Iranian Interlocutor Antisemitism has never been an easy subject for America’s foreign-policy establishment. Read through State Department telegrams and Central Intelligence Agency operational and intelligence... September 18, 2015 Isolation at the U.N. In defending the Iran nuclear deal to Congress, President Obama and his staff argued repeatedly that rejection would leave America in dire isolation at the United Nations. Obama can now relax. Ha... September 17, 2015 Analysis: What Are Europe’s Options in War-Torn Syria? With European leaders scrambling to contain a growing Sy... September 17, 2015 Does Banning Anti-Muslim Remarks Prevent Radicalization? The Quebec government has introduced Bill 59, which sets out to combat publicly disseminated hate speech and speech inciting violence. While noble in intention, the bill contains... September 16, 2015 The Iran Deal and its Impact on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Download full testimony here ... September 16, 2015 The Exodus to Europe’s Promised Lands Hundreds of thousands of migrants are leaving the Middle East, heading to what they see as the promised lands of Europe and, if possible, America. Notice where they are not going. The Or... September 16, 2015 More Than 100 Ex-Gitmo Recidivists At Large The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its latest statistics on the number of former Guantanamo detainees who are either confirmed or suspected of returning to th... September 15, 2015 The Wings of War When Mahan Air, Iran’s largest private airline, bought nine used Airbus aircraft last May, Iranians celebrated the opportunity to upgrade their country’s aging, sanctions-hit commerci... September 15, 2015 Temple Mount Violence Yet Again There were clashes on the Jerusalem Temple Mount in the runup to Rosh Hashanah, and I blame Moshe Dayan. He was the prematurely politically correct Israeli Defense Minister who, in 1967, couldn&r... September 15, 2015 German Bank Closes Account of Pro-Iran, Pro-Hezbollah Supporters The German Commerzank has shut down the account of the al-Quds day demonstration—an annual march in German cities calling for the destruction of Israel—according to the bank’s s... September 11, 2015 Economic Analysis Reveals Extent of Sanctions Relief to Iran Washington – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Roubini Global Economics (RGE) issued a new report today evaluating estimates of the value of sanctions relief under the nuc... September 11, 2015 Iran’s Mysterious Shrinking Reserves: Estimating the Value of Tehran’s Foreign Assets Download Full Report Here... September 11, 2015 In Iran, A Father And Son Vie For Nation’s Future Ahmad Jannati and his son Ali Jannati are symbols of the growing generational gap within the political elite of Iran. Jannati the elder perceives him... September 9, 2015 The Not Quite Done Iran Deal The debate over the deal President Obama has cut with Iran’s rulers is supposed to end this week. The New York Times, the AP and others in the media are reporting that the White House has a... September 8, 2015 Kuwait’s Espionage Revelations Could Disrupt Rapprochement with Iran Kuwaiti authorities recently disrupted an alleged terror cell linked to Iran and Hezbollah, and have begun exploring punitive steps against Tehran over... September 8, 2015 Analysis: Iran Sanctions Relief Will Feed Europe’s Syrian Refugee Crisis While Germany and Austria are in a celebratory mood about absorbing Syrian refugees, European politicians have ignored Iran’s role in producing the waves of desperate Syrians fleeing to Eur... September 8, 2015 Rohani Under Fire as Iran Power Struggle Sharpens Iranian President Hassan Rohani won the war, so to speak, but risks losing the peace. He managed to reach an international diplomatic solution in the confrontation over Iran’s nu&... September 8, 2015 Europe Should Take Syria’s Assad to War The photograph of a drowned 3-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach put the Syrian refugee crisis front and center of Europe’s immigration policy. Sadly, Europeans still fail t... September 8, 2015 A Friend in a Friendly Country: Saudi, U.S. Seek Common Ground Sitting in the White House Oval Office, King Salman ... September 8, 2015 Wake up, West! The Era of Hybrid Warfare Is Upon Us Times have changed. We in the West—especially in Europe—should know by now that we’ve left behind us an era when wars took place in some remote foreign location, waged by profes... September 7, 2015 The Turkish Kristallnacht A belated commemoration — 60 years lat... September 7, 2015 A Side Agreement Could Void the Iran Deal Co-authored by Mike Pompeo The Iran Nuclear Ag... September 4, 2015 Larijani’s Evasive Interview Shows Iran’s Policies Remain Unchanged Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani was in New York on Wednesday to attend a U.N.-sponsored conference of parliamentary speakers... September 4, 2015 Nuclear Deal is a Boon to the IRGC The nuclear agreement signed by Iran and world powers in July will benefit Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in three primary ways. First, the deal lifts sectoral ban... September 4, 2015 The Lame Duck Who’s Dancing The famous lame duck got some fabulous physical therapy, because President Obama—the lame duck in question– is flexing his muscles against his political opponents, and winning handily... September 4, 2015 Extreme Makeover, Jihadist Edition: Al-Qaeda’s Rebranding Campaign Since the Islamic State made its dramatic military advance from Syria into Iraq more than a year ago — capturing... September 3, 2015 New Report Details Options for the U.S. to Shape Palestinian Succession after Mahmoud Abbas Washington, DC - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today released a new report warning of a succession crisis in the Palestinian Authority and called upon the White House to take immediat... September 3, 2015 Amid Violence and Chaos, Turkey Grapples With Turmoil From Within and Without Turkey marked the 93rd anniversary of Victory Day in its 1922 War of Independence against Greece on Sunday. While many commercial and residential buildings were blanketed with the Turkish red fla... September 2, 2015 Kurds Mark Milestone by Joining Turkish Cabinet The suspension of Turkey’s ceasefire with Kurdish fighters in July, followed by airstrikes against Kurdish militant targets in Turkey and Iraq, have brought the greatest rupture in Turkish-... September 2, 2015 The Race to Replace Mahmoud Abbas Download full report here I. Executive Summary The Palestinian national project is at a crossroads. Mahmoud Abbas—the aging president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), chairman of... September 2, 2015 The Deadly Peril in Appeasement “Appeasement” gets a bad rap but, strictly speaking, the word implies nothing more than an attempt to make peace. If aggrieved adversaries can be pacified by reasonable concessions, w... August 31, 2015 Saudi King’s Visit Offers Chance to Reset Relations President Obama is set to host Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the White House on Friday for the king’s first visit since ascending to the throne in January. White... August 31, 2015 Analysis: Unrestricted Europe-Iran Trade Will Help Empower Regime’s Oppression of Citizens The pernicious European companies selling technology to the Islamic Republic are already well known: They range from widespread surveillance of Iranians to the transfer of dual-use equipment that... August 31, 2015 Iran’s Impossible Return to the 1990s Two men personify the post-revolutionary phase of the Islamic Republic in the 1990s: then-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Rohani, his Supreme National Security Counci... August 31, 2015 Nuclear Fiascoes: From Diplomatic Failure With North Korea To Debacle With Iran With Congress due to vote by Sept. 17 on the Iran nuclear deal, there’s a warning worth revisiting. It goes like this: The president is pushing a historic nuclear agreement, saying it will... August 28, 2015 Interviewing Scientists is Key to Iran’s PMD A fatal flaw of last month’s Iran nuclear deal is its failure to account for possible military dimensions (... August 28, 2015 Using Financial Sticks to Control Iran As Congress considers the Iranian nuclear deal, it should also prepare a strategy to use U.S. financial and economic power aggressively against a broad array of Iranian thre... August 27, 2015 Turkey – Where Everyone Believes God is On Their Side Six days after Turkey reluctantly joined the US war effort against ISIS with its ... August 26, 2015 New Report Outlines Achievable Amendments to Iran Nuclear Deal Washington, DC – In the final weeks before a congressional vote on the nuclear agreement with Iran, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has released a new report analyzing... August 26, 2015 Improving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Download the full report here Introducti... August 26, 2015 The Parchin Precedent Initially, I thought the news was beyond parody. The Associated Press last week ran a story headlined: “U.N. to let Iran inspect nuke work site.” I soon realized that this r... August 26, 2015 The Parchin Precedent Initially, I thought the news was beyond parody. The Associated Press last week ran a story headlined: “U.N. to let Iran inspect nuke work site.” I soon realized that this r... August 26, 2015 Obama’s Arms-Control Delusion Advocates of the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran argue that, despite the duplicity of the Iranian regime, the deal will work because arms control worked to contain the nuclear... August 24, 2015 The Iran Nuclear Deal Means War Between Israel and Hezbollah The debate over President Obama's Iran nuclear deal has grown increasingly bitter inside the Beltway. The acrimony is unavoidable, and not just because of the hyper-partisanship that is ripp... August 24, 2015 Analysis: Why Europe is Not Likely to Enforce Iran Deal With the reopening of the UK’s embassy in Tehran on Sunday, a new wrench has been tossed into the nuclear deal approval process: Britain’s likely reluctance to enforce violations.&nbs... August 24, 2015 Trading Peace in Egypt and Israel This year marks the tenth anniversary of an Egyptian-Israeli economic partnership that has quietly pumped billions into Cairo’s vulnerable economy. The free-trade framework known as Qualify... August 24, 2015 Don’t Call Obama’s Iran Diplomacy ‘Reaganesque’ Brent Scowcroft’s Aug. 23 op-ed, “An... August 21, 2015 Iran’s Mounting Losses in Syria Point to Build-Up Hardly a week passes without Iranian media coverage of funeral and memorial services held across the Islamic Republic for Iranian, Iraqi, Afghan and Pakistani fighters killed in Syria.... August 20, 2015 The Iranian Attack Against Me, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal I recently commented on Senator Charles Schumer’s rejection of the Iran deal. My remarks, which appeared here August 9th, included a reference to an exchange of messages between the Obama A... August 20, 2015 Turkey Awakens to the Islamic State Threat Within News reports over the weekend revealed that Turkish police recently discovered 30 suicide vests, some ready for immediate use, in raids against the Islamic State. The news came one week after an...

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