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July 28, 2015 The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Download full testimony here... July 28, 2015 Turkey’s False Spring Turkey’s recent June elections have produced a religiously diverse parliament th... July 28, 2015 Iran Embarks On Middle East Charm Offensive – Will It Work? Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif have each ... July 28, 2015 Obama’s Equilibrium Fantasy With the nuclear deal finally out of the way, President Obama can now get down to what, for him, has always been the real business—engaging Iran on regional issues. As one adminis... July 27, 2015 Impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement Download the full testimony here. Mr. Chairman, America and its allies must prepare for an increasingly dangerous era. It will be marked by political, economic, and financial warfare. It will not only target the United States. Our allies also will be in the crosshairs. As always,… July 27, 2015 The Iran-North Korea Strategic Alliance Download full testimony he... July 27, 2015 Under Iran Agreement, U.S. Will Delist All Entities Controlled by Supreme Leader Of all the sanctions to be lifted in last week’s Iran nuclear agreement, few are more significant than those against a shadowy $100-billion network of foundations belonging to the Islamic R... July 27, 2015 EU Delisting of IRGC Construction Giant Will Boost Terror Financing The Iran nuclear deal signed July 14 stipulates that eight years after its implementation, the European Union will delist a construction conglomerate owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp... July 27, 2015 The Role of Iraqi Tribes After the Islamic State’s Ascendance In the m... July 27, 2015 The Lawless Underpinnings of the Iran Nuclear Deal The Iranian nuclear agreement announced on July 14 is unconstitutional, violates international law and features commitments that President Obama could not lawfully make. However, becaus... July 27, 2015 How to Defeat the Grand Bargain with Iran I think most of those trying to stop the approval of the Iran Deal are going about it wrong. I don’t believe you can stop this thing by going through the text and pointing out its myr... July 27, 2015 ‘Peace for Our Time’ Banner headlines in a prominent national newspaper read “NUKE DEAL PAVES WAY FOR NEW ERA: Sworn Foes U.S., Iran Aim To Bury Hatchet” — without sarcasm. For critics of the Iran n... July 27, 2015 Canada Is Right Not To Lift Iran Sanctions Prematurely The nuclear deal that six world powers signed with Iran earlier this month will soon remove most international sanctions in exchange for Iran’s acceptance of long-term restrictions on its n... July 26, 2015 Analysis: Europe to Drop Sanctions on Iranian Terrorists and Entities Along with the Iran nuclear agreement, the European Union has agreed to remove sanctions on Iranian entities and individuals deeply involved in terrorism. Making matters significantly wo... July 26, 2015 The Nuclear Deal Gives a Dangerous Amount of Atomic Expertise to Iran The nuclear deal that the six world powers signed with Iran last week commits the United States to eventually removing a ban on Iranian graduate students applying for advanced degrees in nuclear... July 24, 2015 Iran Is Working with al Qaeda On July 21, the Pentagon announced that Muhsin al-Fadhli, an al Qaeda operative who had been wanted for more than a decade, was killed in an airstrike in Syria earlier in the month. Fadhli has be... July 23, 2015 Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran Download full testimon... July 23, 2015 IRGC Cashes in on EU “Transition Day” After the nuclear agreement signed last week, the United States will maintain most of its sanctions on individuals and entities connected to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)... July 23, 2015 Analysis: Iran Nuclear Agreement Won’t Improve Human Rights The euphoria surrounding the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program last week has not altered the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic. “The... July 23, 2015 German Minister Engulfed by Storm of Criticism for Iran Visit German Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s three-day ... July 23, 2015 Radical Islam and the Culture War What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in... July 23, 2015 Slam Dunk II: The Persian Version “With this deal, we cut off ... July 22, 2015 Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe For over a decade now, since the Congressional EMP Commission delivered its first report to Congress eleven years ago in July of 2004, various Senate and House committees have heard from numerous scie... July 22, 2015 Foreign Policy Musings Before the Fall Election As the federal election approaches, party leaders have begun to articulate their visions for how Canada would best be served in both the domestic and the international arenas. It behooves all Can... July 22, 2015 Disapprove Obama’s Iran Deal — or Surrender The fundamental flaws in President Obama’s deal with Iran have become well known. Among them: Iran’s rulers will have the power to delay or even prevent inspections of suspected... July 22, 2015 Why Obama’s Vision of a Weakened Iran Doesn’t Add Up There was a lot to take issue with in President Barack Obama’s ... July 21, 2015 The Iran Nuclear Deal and its Impact on Terrorism Financing Download fu... July 21, 2015 The IRGC Reacts to the Nuclear Deal After more than a week of silence, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has weighed in on the nuclear agreement Tehran signed last week with the P5+1 negotiators. IRGC Commander Major Ge... July 21, 2015 Taking the Iran Deal Disaster Seriously The best approach to Iran in the wake of President Obama’s deal is to recognize the complex nature of the problem, and the absolute need for a well-considered and comprehensive approach. Th... July 21, 2015 The Iran Nuclear Deal From Hell, and UN Ambassador Samantha Power in the Age of Genocide Thirteen years ago, Samantha Power made a name for herself with her Pulitzer prize-winning book, “‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide.” In this book, sh... July 20, 2015 Post-Deal, Khamenei’s Remarks as Belligerent as Ever “Our policy toward the arrogant U.S. government won’t change at all,” Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei assured Iranians in his... July 20, 2015 Argentina is Still Helping Iran Cover Up its Role in the Bombing of a Jewish Community Center July 18th marks 21 years since the largest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history: the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 individuals and wounded... July 17, 2015 The Nuclear Deal’s Impact on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards One of the foremost beneficiaries of the Iran nuclear deal sign... July 17, 2015 How Will We Know? One might think that after the last Iraq war Democrats would be wary of allowing intelligence to dictate policy. Yet that is effectively what Barack Obama has done with the Joint Comprehensive Pl... July 17, 2015 It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not enter into Tuesday’s historic deal with six world powers to reset relations with the West. It was the promise of more than $100... July 16, 2015 Iran Reacts to Nuclear Deal with Belligerence, Threats The U.S. administration hopes the Iran nuclear deal signed this week “incenti... July 16, 2015 Analysis: German-Iran Business Ties Complicate Relations With Israel With the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal by world powers – including Germany – on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela’s Merkel administration issued a full-throated endorsement of the... July 16, 2015 The ‘Grand Bargain’ Is A Gift To Iran Lee Smith has it right: The long “grand bargain” tha... July 16, 2015 Nuclear Extortion: Pioneered by North Korea, Perfected by Iran With implications reaching far beyond the Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal opens the gates not to a safer world, but to proliferation on a scale likely to defy any peaceful efforts at containme... July 15, 2015 The Deal of the Century On Friday, large crowds in Tehran and other Iranian cities burned American flags and chanted “Death to America!” On Saturday, Iranian media outlets reported that Supreme Leader Ali Kh... July 15, 2015 A Six-Step Plan to a Better Iran Deal Now that a nuclear deal with Iran has been announced, one thing is clear: the agreement's terms seem poised to cripple its viability. The United States and its P5+1 partners caved o... July 14, 2015 Historic Iran Nuclear Deal Today, Even More Historic — and Terrible — Reckoning to Come We are about to hear plenty of celebratory remarks about the “historic” Iran nuclear deal reached in Vienna. For those inclined to celebrate, this is supposed to be the big p... July 14, 2015 Iran will cheat and get away with it President Obama’s deal with Iran profoundly misjudged the revolutionary nature of the clerical regime in Tehran. Iran’s rulers have demonstrated over the last two decades an... July 13, 2015 Omar One day in the mid-sixties I was on a Pan Am 747 from London to Chicago, sitting next to my then-employer, Omar Sharif. I was a member of the “Omar Sharif Bridge Circus,” an unl... July 13, 2015 In Iran We Trust? Illegal Purchases of Nuclear Weapons Technology continued to June ‘15 Can Iran be trusted to uphold the nuclear deal being finalized in Vienna? Can the Obama administration its partners in the P5+1 be trusted to hold Iran’s feet to the fire in case of violati... July 13, 2015 Iran’s Very Active Posture Against IS in Iraq Finds No Match in Syria Since her return from Tehran in April, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has argued that Iran can be a reliable partner in the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. At the Paris talks this m... July 13, 2015 The China-Iran Nuclear Pipeline President Barack Obama has said that the final nuclear deal with Iran will... July 10, 2015 Iran Made Illegal Purchases of Nuclear Weapons Technology Last Month The question is not whether Iran can be trusted to uphold the nuclear deal now being negotiated in Vienna (it can’t), but whether the Obama administration and its P5+1 partners can be trust... July 10, 2015 China’s Nuclear Comprador for Iran Any deal emerging from the Iran nuclear talks is supposed to block all Iran’s pathways to the bomb, or so promises President Obama. So, what does the Obama administration propose to do abou... July 9, 2015 The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Summit: Any Results? Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to testify before...

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