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July 6, 2015 ISIS is Threatening Hamas in Gaza. That’s Scary News. ISIS has been signaling its designs on the Palestinian territory of Gaza. "The rule of sharia will be imposed on Gaza," an ISIS fighter announced in a recent video. And that means going... July 6, 2015 Iran’s Regime Knows ‘Snapback Sanctions’ Aren’t Going to Be Able to Stop it From Going Nuclear As world powers prepare to finalize a nuclear deal with Iran, European businesses are gearing up for a swift ... July 2, 2015 Saudi-Led Campaign Of Airstrikes In Yemen Marks 100th Day Saudi Arabia’s boldest military campaign in almost 100 years is marking its 100th day on Friday of punishing airstrikes on the Arab world’s poorest country, with seemingly no exit str... July 2, 2015 The Iran Watchers Making a dramatic visit to Tehran days before the July 7 deadline for a nuclear deal, the head of an international atomic watchdog agency has emerged as a central figure in the effort to stop Ira... July 2, 2015 Expert: Economic Benefits of Sanctions Relief Likely to Boost Iran’s Regional Threat The expected windfall Iran would receive from sanctions relief as part of a nuclear deal would likely benefit its internal and external security services—including proxy terrorist groups su... July 2, 2015 Iran’s Dubious Track Record With the recent weeklong extension of the deadline for a final nuclear deal, Iran’s tra... July 2, 2015 Despite Deadline Extension, Iran and West Far Apart on Details of Nuke Deal Although the West and Iran agreed to extend nuclear negotiations a week past the June 30 deadline, major differences still exist between the two sides, USA Today reported Tuesday. Iran h... July 1, 2015 Egypt’s Bloody Wednesday The Sinai Peninsula experienced its bloodiest attack in a decade on Wednesday, as the Islamic State affil... July 1, 2015 Turkish Corruption Suspect Awarded Business Prize Iranian-born Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab received his country’s top exporter award June 21 from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM), a pro-government business group. Zarrab received th... July 1, 2015 Men of Peace in a Realm of War Last week, I paid a couple of visits to the West Bank or, as Israel’s enemies call it, “the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.” Israelis who live and work there are mor... July 1, 2015 950 Hezbollah Operatives, 300 Hamas Members in Germany – Intelligence Report The number of Islamists in Germany increased to 43,890 in 2014 from 43,190 in 2013, according to a report released on Tuesday by the country’s domestic intelligence agency. Radical... July 1, 2015 The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It There is a key flaw in the emerging nuclear deal with Iran that is likely to quickly turn this historic agreement into a monumental failure. The most important thing Iran gets from a dea... 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...

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