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November 14, 2022 Turkey Seeks Sovereign Immunity in Two Cases Before the Supreme Court Two recent Supreme Court rulings in the United States may shed light on whether entities owned by foreign governments can claim immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)... November 14, 2022 The IAEA’s Iran NPT Safeguards Report – November 2022 Excerpt Iran has consistently violated its obligations under its comprehensive safeguards agreement (CSA), a key part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), under which it must cooperate with the... November 14, 2022 Lawmakers Urge More Action to Ensure Resilience of the U.S. Economy Two Republican lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden earlier this month expressing concern about the “limited action” the administration has taken to create plans to ensure the Continuity of... November 13, 2022 By Not Enforcing Sanctions, Biden Helps Khamenei and Hurts Iranians The Biden administration’s failure to fully enforce its sanctions against Iran is helping the Islamist regime in Tehran survive an unprecedented challenge to its authority while it doubles down on its... November 12, 2022 Will the American election finally kill the zombie Iran deal? In the lead-up to the American midterm elections, the Biden administration’s messaging on Iran had maintained that the effort to revive the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),... November 11, 2022 Grounded: Why Biden Must Sanction Iranian Aviation Iran is preparing to supply Russia with more advanced weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, according to Western officials. The Biden administration should respond by leveraging existing U.S. sanctions and... November 10, 2022 Israeli Weapons Sent to Ukraine Could End Up in Iran According to a report published on Wednesday, a Russian military aircraft secretly transported a British NLAW anti-tank missile, a U.S. Javelin anti-tank missile, and a Stinger anti-aircraft missile to Tehran on August 20. This news will reinforce opposition in Israel to sending weapons to Ukraine for fear they could end up in the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran. November 10, 2022 Presidential Vacuum Persists in Lebanon The term of Lebanese President Michel Aoun ended last week, but the country’s parliament has so far failed to elect a successor. The presidential vacuum, which compounds Lebanon’s political and economic problems, persists because Iranian proxy Hezbollah, the dominant political force in Lebanon, has yet to choose a president from among its two main Christian allies: Aoun’s son-in-law, Gebran Bassil, and Suleiman Franjieh, a grandson of Lebanon’s fifth president, also named Suleiman Franjieh. Hezbollah fears that favoring one means losing the support of the other. November 10, 2022 Geopolitics of Natural Gas Excerpt The world is experiencing the worst energy crisis since World War II. The energy crisis has contributed to the current global economic recession and world food crisis. While many Western policymakers... November 10, 2022 Iran’s terror drone pipeline to Moscow On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide... November 10, 2022 Taliban meets with Hamas during high-level talks in Turkey Last month, Taliban spokeman Zabihulla Mujahid and a delegation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan officials visited Turkey and met with various foreign officials including senior members of Hamas. The Taliban’s... November 10, 2022 World Cup Shows Need to Crack Down on Kim’s Labor Exploitation Excerpt When tourists flood Qatar for the FIFA World Cup later this month, they will find themselves—likely without knowing it—in facilities that North Korean laborers helped build. The glitzy new hotels... November 10, 2022 If Europe Wants to Sanction Iran, It Knows What to Do Excerpt As Europe considers another round of sanctions targeting Iran for its deadly crackdown on protesters and the supply of arms to Russia, there is a ready sanctions tool already in place, whose activation... November 9, 2022 Bad COP COP27 began on Sunday and I’m following the action. By action, I mean 12 days of mind-numbing meetings, speeches, and virtue signaling, spiced up with misrepresentations of scientific research and data. COP... November 8, 2022 Russia seeking to poison American political discourse leading up to midterm elections Right now, the eyes of the world are focused on Russian aggression in Ukraine and escalating threats from Vladimir Putin. But Russia’s playbook goes well beyond Ukraine, including retaliation against... November 7, 2022 Unification Must Be Korea’s Future Editor’s Note: These remarks were provided to freedom-loving people who gathered on the National Mall on November 5, 2022, for the K-Peace Festival organized by the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council... November 7, 2022 Biden Calls for a Free Iran “We’re gonna free Iran,” said President Joe Biden on Thursday. “They’re gonna free themselves pretty soon.” A White House spokesperson appeared to back-pedal the statement the next day, saying that Biden was merely “expressing, again, our solidarity” with Iranian protestors rather than articulating a new U.S. policy. Still, the president’s declaration constitutes an apparent endorsement of regime change in Iran, implicitly repudiating his current policy, which centers on engaging the regime in hopes of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. November 7, 2022 Now Is Not the Time to Negotiate with Putin Aiding Ukraine is not only the morally right thing to do—it also serves U.S. national security interests. By helping Ukraine defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces, we not only staunch the... November 6, 2022 Jew-Free Investing C-suites, board rooms and investment firms across the globe are increasingly at risk of becoming unwitting accomplices to one of the most pernicious forms of economic warfare waged against the world’s... November 6, 2022 Defense Department needs to capitalize on historic opportunity Excerpt The Department of Defense (DOD) may be facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix a critical gap in its national security arsenal. Congress has authorized the creation of an institution dedicated... November 5, 2022 ‘Quad needs to befriend Bougainville, not just Papua New Guinea’ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea (PNG) in early 2023. It will be the first time an Indian Prime Minister visits the country of 9.3 million people since its independence... November 4, 2022 Send Ukraine C-RAMs and VAMPIREs to help defeat Iranian drones A group of Iranian-provided Shahed-136 drones struck Kyiv on October 17, reportedly killing at least four people, including a woman who was in a residential building and six months pregnant. About a week... November 4, 2022 Bibi Wins! What to make of Bibi Netanyahu’s decisive electoral victory? We’ll leave the squawking about the end of democracy and the brink of war to the same bien-pensants who sang the exact same tune last... November 4, 2022 Islamic Jihad Militant with Links to the Lions’ Den Killed in West Bank Islamic Jihad militant Farouk Salameh — wanted by Israel for his involvement in the shooting death of an Israeli police commando officer earlier this year — was killed Thursday during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the northern West Bank. Salameh also had ties to the Lions’ Den terrorist group and was suspected by Israel of planning additional attacks against Israelis. FDD’s Long War Journal reported that Israeli officials also suspected that Salameh conspired to secure funding for the Lions’ Den. November 4, 2022 Chinese Election Meddling Hits the Midterms Excerpt Having consolidated his hold on power at the Chinese Communist Party’s recently concluded 20th National Congress, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has now set his sights on influencing the U.S. midterm... November 4, 2022 How Washington Can Fend Off the Cyber-Threats of the Future Excerpt The terrorist attacks of 9/11 taught America that even the most technologically unsophisticated actors could physically threaten the homeland. But as little as 15 years ago, the idea that a technologically... November 3, 2022 The Limits of Turkey’s Israeli Charm Offensive Turkey hosted Israel’s top defense official last Thursday for the first time in over a decade. While some are heaping praise on Ankara, the visit by Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz is just the... November 3, 2022 Request for Information – Cyber Workforce Development Strategy November 3, 2022 Why Israel must not provide the Iron Dome to Ukraine Iran and Russia have been moving closer against the backdrop of an ongoing war in Ukraine, which has dragged on and expanded. For Israel, these ever-closer ties are a source of constant headaches. Ukraine... November 2, 2022 Iran’s Hard-Liners Are Starting to Crack Excerpt This time is different. The Iranian people have been protesting in the streets for more than a month since the morality police beat a young woman to death for reportedly failing to wear a headscarf.... November 2, 2022 How to get Kyiv the Tanks and Armored Vehicles It Needs “We’re fighting the war out of our pickup trucks,” stated a Ukrainian soldier when reflecting on Ukraine’s slowing counteroffensive in Luhansk region. While Ukraine has a large inventory of tanks... November 2, 2022 Made in America? Try Made in Democracy. Excerpt President Biden is attempting to reassert U.S. global leadership and rally democracies to outcompete China and other authoritarian regimes that threaten a democratic, rules-based global political... November 2, 2022 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Iraq’s New Cabinet Ayear after holding its parliamentary election and two months after a quick round of civil war, Iraq finally got a new cabinet that is—like everything else in Iraqi politics—full of surprises. Despite... November 2, 2022 Hamas Operations Continue Unhindered in Turkey Israel indicted three of its citizens in late October for providing intelligence to Hamas operatives in Turkey. Authorities have only identified the suspects by their initials but said they identified with Hamas ideology and planned to carry out a cyber-attack against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The main suspect worked as a software engineer for an Israeli communications firm and met Hamas operatives in Turkey multiple times to transfer sensitive information about Israeli communications infrastructure. November 2, 2022 Dead letter The Congressional Progressive Caucus, as I suspect you know, is the club for far-left House members. On October 24, its chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, sent the White House a letter signed by 30 of her colleagues.... November 1, 2022 Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November November 1, 2022 Iran May Provide Russia with Short-Range Ballistic Missiles Iran reportedly may soon provide Russia with short-range ballistic missiles in addition to armed drones for use against Ukraine. The revelation of Iran’s potential missile transfers comes amid growing controversy over whether the U.S. and its allies should formally withdraw all offers of sanctions relief for the regime in Tehran and complete the snapback of United Nations sanctions as provided under UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2231. Without completing the UN snapback, the international arms embargo on Iran will remain expired and UN restrictions on missile transfers will expire next October. The proposed nuclear deal with Iran, which remains on the table for Tehran’s acceptance, would lift sanctions on sectors of Iran’s economy tied to its missile program. October 31, 2022 Shabaab kills over 100 people in suicide bombings in Mogadishu Over the weekend, two suicide car bombings perpetrated by Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, killed at least 100 people at a busy intersection in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu. Hundreds more... October 31, 2022 Biden must act on Iran’s drone and missile transfers Excerpt “The fact is this: Tehran is now directly engaged on the ground and through the provision of weapons that … are killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.” That’s... October 30, 2022 Maximum Support for the Iranian People: A New Strategy Introduction U.S. policy since the 2009 election-related uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a variety of human rights related sanctions and designations to name, shame, penalize, and deter Iranian... October 28, 2022 Analysis: The Lions’ Den and the Future of Militant Activity in the West Bank In a joint Israeli security forces’ operation, a founder of the The Lions’ Den (TLD) was killed in the old city of Nablus on Oct. 25. The Lions’ Den commander, Wadee al-Houh was wanted for several... October 28, 2022 Iraqi Parliament Approves New National Unity Cabinet The Iraqi parliament on Thursday approved the “national unity” cabinet of Prime Minister Mohamed al-Sudani. While Sudani presented his 23-minister cabinet as a harmonious team of technocrats, the appointment of holdovers and new figures suggests that his government is not a coherent bloc but a gathering of competing powers. The development comes a year after Iraqis voted out incumbents and their power-sharing arrangements. October 28, 2022 US strong-arms allies into recognizing Iranian “equities” On October 26, Amos Hochstein headed back to Lebanon for the “signing ceremony” for the maritime boundary deal Team Biden succeeded in imposing on Israel. Reflecting the farcical nature of what is bizarrely... October 28, 2022 The Attack on America’s Future October 28, 2022 China’s Accelerating CEEW Campaign October 28, 2022 Possible Futures for Russia’s CEEW Playbook October 28, 2022 The Evolution of Kim Jong Un’s ‘All-Purpose Sword’ October 28, 2022 The Dangers of Iran’s Cyber Ambitions October 27, 2022 Analysis: Al Qaeda ideologue calls for jihad in Sudan, provides guidelines Earlier this month, Bayt al Maqdis, a jihadi publishing house believed linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released a book compiled of various letters written by the ideologue Abu Hudhayfah... October 27, 2022 More Chaos in the West Bank as Palestinian Authority Loses Grip On Tuesday, the leader of the new Palestinian terrorist group, Lions’ Den was killed along with four other Palestinian gunmen during a raid by Israeli troops. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) undertook the raid into Nablus as part of Operation Breakwater, which the IDF launched in March following a Palestinian terrorism spree that killed 19 in Israel. The week’s violence shows that the IDF will continue to address the lack of Palestinian Authority (PA) governance of the West Bank with military action.

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