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July 1, 2015 Talk of Syria Action May be Erdogan’s Latest Gambit to Pressure the West Alarmed by Syrian Kurds' advances against Islamic State, and irked by Western reluctance to tackle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Tayyip Erdogan has once again raised the prospe... July 1, 2015 Qatar’s Rulers Are Still Surrounding Themselves With Some of the Most Hateful Clerics The ruler of Qatar, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, ... July 1, 2015 Iran Repatriates 13 Tons of Gold Under Sanctions Relief Iranian officials said Monday that the Islamic Republic’s Central Bank has successfully repatriated 13 tons of gold as part of a package of sanctions relief provided to Iran by U.S. and Wes... July 1, 2015 Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti... June 30, 2015 Iran Talks: Moral Equivalence and the Concession Frenzy In a written statement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) observed, “It’s outrageous that a senior U.S. official pointed out that if the United States wouldn’t allow weapons inspectors f... June 30, 2015 As Iran Deadline Approaches, Skeptics Draw Dueling Red Lines In nuclear talks between Iran and the major powers, it’s deadline time, and skeptics on both sides are laying out red lines in a bid to shape a final deal. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,... June 30, 2015 Iran Nuke Talks Deadline Extended to July 7 U.S. and Iranian negotiators in Vienna on Tuesday agreed to extend a deadline for an agreement on Iran's disputed nuclear program until July 7, as sticking points remained. The dead... June 30, 2015 Can We Trust How Iran Would Spend Funds From a Nuclear Deal? The deadline in the Iran nuclear negotiations has just been extended. But if an agreement is ultimately reached, Tehran is expected to receive a substantial financial windfall. Critics have argue... June 30, 2015 Not Fooling Anyone The agitation in the Druze community in Israel over the situation of... June 29, 2015 Iranian Economic Growth After Nuclear Deal Increasingly Immunizes Iran Against Snapback Sanctions WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Roubini Global Economics (RGE) released their latest joint... June 29, 2015 Iran’s Economic Resilience Against Snapback Sanctions Will Grow Over Time Download full report here... June 29, 2015 Top Prosecutor’s Death Presages Long, Hot Summer in Egypt Egypt’s top public prosecutor was killed Monday in a car... June 29, 2015 Analysis: Why Germany is the Weakest Western Link in Nuclear Talks With Iran With the Iran nuclear talks entering the final stretch in Vienna, Germany’s role in the negotiations to end Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program has largely escaped scrutiny.... June 29, 2015 New TV Show Highlights Egypt’s Jewish Problem A new television series is shaking up the lucrative Ramadan viewing season in Egypt. The program – titled “The Jewish Quarter” and set in the late 1940s and early 50s – de... June 26, 2015 Iran’s Economic Growth and the Nuclear Deal Iran’s central bank published its preliminary annual report last week for the previous Persian year (March 2014 to March 2015), according... June 26, 2015 Nuclear Bargains And State Department Backlogs Should a final deal emerge from the Iran nuclear talks, now nearing a June 30 deadline, Congress will expect reports from the President every six months on whether Iran is in compliance. These re... June 26, 2015 Sanctions Evasion Series FDD’s... June 25, 2015 Israeli Envoy to Germany Asks if Breaking the Silence Spreads Anti-Semitism After the Cologne Municipality reversed its cancellation of an exhibit from the Breaking the Silence NGO, Israel’s ambassador asked whether the anti-IDF exhibit will encourage hatred of Jew... June 25, 2015 Study by German Commission: Schoolbooks Biased Against Israel German schoolbooks present a one-sided view of Israel as an aggressive, warlike country while ignoring that the Jewish state is the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, according to a n... June 25, 2015 Misreading Khamenei’s Nuclear Role Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has played his cards right. As the June 30 deadline for a comprehensive nuclear accord approaches, Iran’s supreme leader has maintained his rhetoric of resistance,&nb... June 25, 2015 Europe Needs Greece The Greek debt crisis has become so complicated that we now have digests and timelines to guide us through the saga. In this spirit, the Bertelsmann Foundation recently released an infographic de... June 25, 2015 Why Was a Key Benghazi Suspect Free? On Monday, the Pentagon announced that Ali Ani al Harzi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq. For those who... June 24, 2015 Khamenei’s Speech Ups the Nuclear Ante Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei set new “red lines” to nuclear negotiations on Tuesday, undercutting many of the principles his representatives had already reached with inter... June 24, 2015 Reactions to Khamenei’s Nuclear Speech Mirror Iran’s Fault Lines Iranian reactions to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s address Tuesday on international nuclear negotiations closely follow the country’s factional fault lines, from relative pragmatists... June 24, 2015 Admitting Syrian Refugees: The Intelligence Void and the Escalating Homeland Security Threat Download full testimony here ... June 24, 2015 Evaluating the Security of the U.S. Financial Sector Download full testimony here... June 24, 2015 How to Worsen the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict The “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians has ground to a halt. What should American and European leaders do? Try not to make the situation worse. That will be a... June 24, 2015 The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa The jihadist group that calls itself the Islamic State has increasingly set its sights on expanding into North Africa. The eighth issue of the group’s English-language magazineDabiq... June 23, 2015 Meet Saudi Arabia’s Biggest (and Most Controversial) Twitter Star Saudi Arabia is changing, some say. The authoritarian desert kingdom is becoming more responsive to the will of its people and the demands of the global information economy, say others. This idea... June 19, 2015 The IRGC v Rohani: Spy v Spy While the United States has pinned its hopes for a negotiated solution to the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme on Iranian President Hassan Rohani’s government, the “... June 18, 2015 The Fundamental Flaws of the Emerging Nuclear Deal Under the emerging Iran nuclear agreement, there is an inherent asymmetry between an expanding Iranian nuclear program and diminishing economic leverage. Tehran over time will develop an industri... June 18, 2015 Spanish Councilman Who Favored Burning of Jews Resigns as Cultural Head Guillermo Zapata, the Madrid city councilman in charge of cultural and sport affairs, resigned his post on Monday because of a series of anti-Jewish tweets that mocked the Holocaust. Zap... June 18, 2015 Children Raised in Nazi Period Carried Forward Anti-Semitism, Study Says The 12 years of Nazism (1933-1945) inculcated young Germans with anti-Jewish ideas that continued after the defeat of Hitler, according to a new study on anti-Semitism. The study, which... June 18, 2015 Assad Wants the Druze for Cannon Fodder Apologists for the Assad regime and its dupes in the West claim the regime is the protector of minorities. Nowhere is it more evident that this is a fallacy than in southern Syria, where the regi... June 17, 2015 Learning from Rafsanjani’s Memoirs Secretary of State John Kerry broke with years of U.S. and international policy on Tuesday, indicating that revealing past... June 17, 2015 The Road to ‘Entropy on a Scale Not Seen in Centuries’ Lt. Gen Michael T. Flynn (ret.) served 33 years in the U.S. Army. Being named President Obama’s director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012 was the culmination of his career. He tho... June 17, 2015 In Defence of the Senate The Senate has faced vociferous attack in recent weeks. Accusations abound that an appointed Senate has no right to dissent from Conservative MP Michael Chong’s Reform Act, which was approv... June 16, 2015 South Africa Flubs its Chance at Justice for Bashir Suspected war criminals scored a victory Monday as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied a South African judge’s order and... June 16, 2015 A Global Perspective on Cyber Threats Download full testimony here... June 16, 2015 The Death and Life of the Two-State Solution On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection, thanks in part to a desperate last-minute pledge to his right-wing base that the Palestinians would never get a state so lon... June 15, 2015 Lifting Sanctions On Iran: Practical Implications This is a closed briefing. Visit http://www.foreign.sen... June 15, 2015 Don’t Look to Iran to Cave on Nukes Ever since Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) was established in 1989 it has been in charge of strategic decision-making in the Islamic Republic, including the direct... June 15, 2015 Analysis: Iran’s War on Christians Casts Doubt on Nuclear Agreement After his campaign promises in 2013 to guarantee the rights of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country’s self-declared moderate President Hassan Rouhani has remain... June 12, 2015 Europe’s Economic War on Israel When it comes to dealing with the increasing calls to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, the United States and Europe are moving in two opposite directions. Last week, South Carol... June 11, 2015 Turkistan Islamic Party Emir Thought Killed in 2010 Reemerged to Lead Group in 2014 The emir of the Turkistan Islamic Party, who served on al Qaeda’s executive leadership council and who was thought to have been killed in a US drone strike in 2010, is believed to have re-e... June 11, 2015 Turkey Thwarts Erdoğan The Turkish general elections ended with the most unlikely outcome. Twenty political parties and 165 independent candidates competed for 550 seats in 85 electoral districts. The ruling Justice an... June 10, 2015 The Rhyme and Reason of Jihad You probably didn’t know it but Osama bin Laden was a poet. In fact, according to Yale’s Robyn Creswell and Princeton’s Bernard Haykel, “of all jihadi poets, bin Laden was... June 10, 2015 Tehran’s Siamese Twins “[I]n the next few days, the world will be surprised by what we and the Syrian military leadership are currently preparing,” Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary G... June 9, 2015 Former Turkish Parliamentarian Joins FDD as Non-Resident Fellow WASHINGTON — Dr. Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish Parliament from 2011 to 2015, has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident fellow. Based in An... June 9, 2015 Turkey After the Elections In Turkey’s election on Sunday, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years, and will be unable to form the next government...

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