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November 24, 2015 Putin’s Belligerence Reaches a Tipping Point Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet today after it violated the country’s airspace. The Turkish military... November 23, 2015 Congress Moves to Target Hezbollah with New Sanctions Congress took action this week to target Hezbollah and its global network of illicit finance. The Senate passed H.R. 2297, the “... November 23, 2015 Analysis: How Iran Exploits ISIS to Wage Terror The intense Western effort to decimate Islamic State after the terrorist entity executed attacks in Paris has largely relegated Iranian and Hezbollah jingoism in Syria and Iraq to a secondary sta... November 20, 2015 New Report Outlines Ways to Combat Islamic State’s Antiquities Trafficking Washington, DC - As the nation’s largest professional organization of archaeologists on the Middle East holds its annual meeting this week in Atlanta, the Foundation for Defense of Democrac... November 20, 2015 Monumental Fight: Countering the Islamic State’s Antiquities Trafficking Co-written with Alexander Joffe... November 20, 2015 The Long War Continues In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi... November 20, 2015 Al Qaeda Hasn’t Been Neutralized Secretary of State John Kerry believes that al Qaeda’s “top leadership” has been “neutralize[d]” as “an effective force.” He made the claim while discuss... November 19, 2015 The Impact of ISIS on the Homeland and Refugee Resettlement Download the full testimony here... November 19, 2015 How the Iranian President’s Populist Economic Policies Could Be His Undoing Detractors of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to say that he distributed potatoes to buy votes, a derisive reference to government subsidies which contributed to Iran’s sp... November 18, 2015 Israel’s Islamic Movement: Context and Possible Implications Israel outlawed the northern branch of the Islamic Movement on Tues... November 18, 2015 Khamenei’s Reinterpretation of Nuclear Deal and the Implications Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative to the council,... November 18, 2015 Forget Paris For almost two generations, since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, self-proclaimed jihadis have been fighting to re-establish Islamic supremacy and domination in the world. Leaders of the na... November 17, 2015 What to Do About the Kidnapping for Ransom Problem President Obama announced the results of a study to overhau... November 17, 2015 Bearing Witness To A Nuclear North Korea It’s a long way from Paris to Pyongyang, but as the world ponders the jihadi attacks on France, let us not lose sight of the menace emanating on the other side of the globe from a nuclear-a... November 16, 2015 Terrorist Financing: Kidnapping, Antiquities Trafficking, and Private Donations Download f... November 16, 2015 A France-U.S. Anti-Islamist Alliance Even before the French-born Kouachi brothers went on a shooting rampage at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in January, French officials knew their luck was running out. Paris had always coun... November 16, 2015 Why Isn’t the Obama Administration Going After Iran’s Mahan Air? In theory, Iran's Mahan Air is a private commercial airliner that operates dozens of daily passenger flights to domestic and ... November 16, 2015 Analysis: Will France Invoke NATO’s Article 5 to Declare War on Islamic State? To confront comprehensively the Islamic State terrorist attacks on French soil, there have been calls for France’s President François Hollande to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty,... November 16, 2015 Iran’s ISIS Trap Co-written with Ray Takeyh The choice seems simple. On one side are regally attired mullahs, the type that have protected Persia’s pre-Islamic treasures and even tweet in... November 16, 2015 After Paris, We Need A Strategy To Fight Islamic Jihad I do not know for sure who masterminded and organized the terrorist assault on Paris, although most evidence points to ISIS. We will probably know a lot more in a few days. Multiple attacks requi... November 15, 2015 Terror on the Cheap: Paris Attacks Required Little Funding The U.S. government imposed sanctions on two French citizens in September for their ties to the Islamic State. One of them,... November 15, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks Indicate That Age of Urban Warfare May Just Be Beginning The atrocities in Paris are not just terrorism: They represent yet another example of an urban warfare attack designed to kill, terrorize and shut down a major city for an extended period of time... November 13, 2015 Strengthening the Verification and Implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Download the full report here... November 13, 2015 Witch-Hunt for ‘Spies’ in Tehran A veritable witch-hunt has followed the July 14th nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic and US-led global powers in which lobbyists instrumental in the success of President Has... November 13, 2015 Adieu, Turkish Democracy It’s already become a cliché to say that the results of Turkey’s Nov. 1 parliamentary elections, officially ... November 11, 2015 A Suggestion for the Islamic State Book Club After a long week of slitting throats, smashing antiquities and raping infidel slave girls, how do the Islamic State’s barbarians unwind? Some, apparently, discuss the finer points of histo... November 11, 2015 Tehran-Moscow Axis: Tactical or Strategic? Co-authored by Flemming Splidsboel Hansen Ali Larijani wore black as a sign of mourning the Ashoura days of Shiite passion, as he addressed the participants at the October 2015... November 11, 2015 How Canada Can Help Stem The Syrian Refugee Crisis Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing the complexities of implementing his laudable campaign pledge to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of the year. The commitment to gran... November 10, 2015 IRGC Intelligence: The Driving Force Behind Iran’s New Crackdown Iranian hardliners launched a brazen political offensive in recent weeks, arresting two... November 10, 2015 Analysis: The Mood in Germany: Kristallnacht ‘Nein,’ BDS ‘Ja’ Each year on November 9, Berlin remembers the lethal anti-Semitic pogroms carried out by Germans against Jews and synagogues in 1938 – the so-called Kristallnacht anniversary. The comm... November 10, 2015 Label Europe anti-Israel On Wednesday, the European Union is slated to officially announce guidelines mandating the labeling of products from Israeli settlements. This form of economic warfare unfairly targets the Jewish... November 9, 2015 Not a Conspiracy In May, the London Review of Books published a 10,000-word exposé by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the killing of Osama bin Laden. It was widely read online, receiving... November 6, 2015 The Sinai Crash is Sisi’s Nightmare It’s still too early to definitively state the cause of the Russian airliner crash... November 6, 2015 An Iraqi Abroad Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, my friend Ahmad Chalabi would often carry fat tomes about America’s occupations of Germany and Japan. An Iraqi exile after 1958 who lived mainly in Lond... November 6, 2015 Obama Team Fails to Protect the Grid The White House publicly unveiled its “National Space Weather Action Plan” on October 29, amidst much fanfare and favorable press coverage. President Obama deserves credit fo... November 5, 2015 Iran’s Power Projection Capability Chairman DeSantis, Ranking Member Lynch, members of this subcommittee on national security, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance,... November 5, 2015 Panzer auf der Landebahn Bei seiner Antrittsrede vor den iranischen Revolutionsgarden am 16. September 2013 schlug der neu gewählte Präsident Hassan Rohani den versammelten Kommandeuren einen Deal vor: Die Revo... November 4, 2015 How the Federal Government Fails American Victims of Iranian and Palestinian Terrorism Watch the full testimony here... November 4, 2015 Michelle’s Dangerous Journey to Qatar First Lady Michelle Obama, on her first solo trip to the Middle East, is scheduled Wednesday... November 4, 2015 An Unhappy United Nations Birthday Did it escape your attention that last month was the 70th birthday of the United Nations? Did you miss the opportunity to celebrate by following Elyx on an “exciting 70-day (virtual) trip a... November 4, 2015 Obama Licenses Iran To Ship Missiles to Hezbollah The logical endgame of President Obama’s Iran policy and his “roundtable” approach to Syria has always been to offer American protection for Iranian mis... November 3, 2015 Iran Terror Financing and the Tax Code Despite the fanfare over the recently reached Iran deal, the Iranian regime remains involved in a range of destabilizing activities and illicit conduct. Recently, Iran tested a missile capable of... November 2, 2015 6 Takeaways From the Turkish Elections After losing their single-party majority for the first time in 12 years, the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) returned to power after a five-month intermission. Turkey&rs... November 2, 2015 Analysis: A Human Rights Record Worse Than Ahmadinejad’s President Rouhani has gone to great lengths to try to put a human face on the Islamic Republic’s regime. He has failed. “The human rights situation in the country remai... November 2, 2015 Impact of Sanctions Relief Despite the fanfare over the recently reached Iran deal, Tehran remains a bad actor. Iran recently tested a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead in violation of a key UN Security Council... November 2, 2015 Yet Another American Hostage In Tehran Siamak Namazi is in Evin Prison in Tehran, and on the face of it that’s very surprising. Why? Because he’s long been a friend and supporter of the regime that has incarcerated him. He... October 30, 2015 The Unbearable Lightness of UN Sanctions on North Korea As far as President Obama has any discernible policy for dealing with the rising threat from North Korea, a big part of his approach entails pressuring Pyongyang with UN sanctions. So say U.S. ad... October 30, 2015 Saudi Textbooks Propagate Intolerance Here we go again. According to a new government report, Saudi Arabia published yet another year’s worth of public school textbooks that promote hateful ideas. This represents only the... October 30, 2015 Iran’s Military Budget is Going to Get a Huge Boost From the Nuclear Deal Post-nuclear deal Iran has shown the will to spend more on its military adventures in the Middle East and beyond, even though the price of oil has stayed low. The Joint Comprehensi... October 29, 2015 EU Set to Delist Entities Linked to Iran’s Ballistic Missile Test Iranian lawmakers broadly endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (...

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