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January 13, 2014
With Sanctions in Doubt, Trade Delegations Flock to Iran
Upon the announcement of the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) between Iran and the six world powers (P5+1) on Sunday, President Barack Obama...
January 10, 2014
The Banking Provisions in the Joint Plan of Action Between Iran and the P5+1
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Sanctions against Iran’s banking sector have restricted Iran access to financial markets and services. Iran’s exclusion has had an...
January 9, 2014
Iran’s Majles Threatens 60% Enrichment After Obama Administration Enforces Sanctions
Critics are taking aim at 51 U.S. Senators for proposing legislation that would impose additional sanctions on Iran if it vio...
January 6, 2014
Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping in Lebanon
The Iranian-spawned terrorist group Hezbollah is smuggling advanced guided-missile systems into Lebanon, according to a report last week in...
January 4, 2014
Russian Yakhont Missiles in Hezbollah’s Hands
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that US officials believe the Lebanese terrorist g...
January 3, 2014
Canada Bans Boko Haram
As 2013 drew to a close, the Government of Canada announced on December 30 its designation of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram as a...
January 2, 2014
Babak Zanjani: An Iranian in the Eye of Turkey’s Storm
Iranian authorities arrested billionaire Babak Morteza Zanjani Monday a...
December 30, 2013
Bombings Hit Russia Ahead of Olympics
Two bombings have rocked the southern Russian city of Volgograd in as many days, just weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Sunday’s attack on the...
December 18, 2013
Saudi Arabia in Syria: Naughty, Not Nice
Saudi Arabia, over the last year, has gone from being a relatively constructive actor in Syria to fueling a jihadist nightmare in the Levant. Information is just now starting to emerge, but repor...
December 12, 2013
Egypt’s Sinai Goes Quiet… For Now
By David Barnett On November 20, a car bomb attack by the Salafi ji...
December 12, 2013
Catching Up with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Iranian election in June was in many ways a referendum on the policies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. By campaigning against the status quo, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, sought to pro...
December 10, 2013
The Costs for Iran of Walking Away from Nuclear Negotiations
The U.S. Senate is working on new legislation that would impose sanctions on Iran if it cheat...
December 10, 2013
Rouhani’s Economic Battles with the IRGC
President Hassan Rouhani’s September 16, 2013 address to the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) &ndash...
December 9, 2013
The Geneva Joint Plan of Action and Iran’s Petrochemical Sector
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad The Joint Plan of Action (JPA) signed on November 24 between Iran an...
December 9, 2013
Rouhani Purges the IRGC From Local Government
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is systematically purging the executive branch of the veterans of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Among Rouhani’s 18 cabinet ministers, there...
December 5, 2013
Who Took Out Hezbollah’s Hassan al-Laqqis?
Minutes after Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah finished a lengthy televised appearance late Tuesday night, a team of unknown assailants assassinated Hassan al-Laqqis, one of the...
December 5, 2013
Saudi Clerics Endorse Jihadists in Syria
A group of 72 preachers and religious scholars from Saudi Arabia published a petition yesterday endorsing the Islamic Front in Syria. The Islam...
November 26, 2013
Iranian FM Mohammad-Javad Zarif: Twitter vs Memoirs
Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad-Javad Zarif returned to Tehran with great fanfare this weekend following the accord he reached with the US and other world powers in...
November 26, 2013
The Gulf Reaction to Geneva
Coverage of international responses to the Iranian nuclear deal has focused primarily on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s...
November 26, 2013
Canada Stays Strong on Iran
Canada has taken a tough public stance regarding the interim deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 on Sunday. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird expressed great skepticism of Iran’s inten...
November 20, 2013
The Iranian Embassy Bombing in Beirut: Many Questions Remain
Two explosions targeted the Iranian Embassy in Beirut yesterday, killing at least 23 people, among them the Iranian cultural attaché, Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Ansari and the head of Hezbollah&...
November 20, 2013
Ali Khamenei’s Defiant Diatribe
While the Western media continue to speculate on the P5+1 negotiations in Geneva, the Iranian media tuned in to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ...
November 19, 2013
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades and the Attack on Iran’s Embassy in Beirut
By David Barnett The Abdullah Azzam Brigades (AAB), an al Qaeda-linked group, announced today that its Hussein bin Ali Battalion was responsible for the double suicide attack on...
November 18, 2013
The Iranian Media Reacts to Geneva
With the next round of Geneva negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 looming, Iran’s press is divided. On one side, mouthpieces of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutiona...
November 11, 2013
One-Year After ‘Pillar of Defense,’ Hamas is on its Heels
By David Barnett One year ago Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense (PoD) in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The largely aerial assault began...
November 9, 2013
The Dollar Value of the Proposed Sanctions Relief at Geneva
The P5+1 is negotiating an interim nuclear deal with Iran to freeze in place its illicit nuclear program. Based on open source reporting, and an analysis by the Foundation for Defense of Democrac...
November 8, 2013
The Widening Gap in Iran Between Rouhani and the RevGuards
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva today to “help narrow differences” and finalize an...
November 8, 2013
The Pakistani Taliban Appoints a New Leader
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, an al Qaeda-linked group that has fought a brutal insurgency in Pakistan since 2007, named a new leader yesterday. The announcement came just six days aft...
November 8, 2013
Khamenei’s 100 Days with Rouhani
In a few days, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran will have reached his 100 day mark. Analysts rightly point to the change in tone adopted by the new president, particularly when compared to Mahmou...
November 4, 2013
Rouhani’s New Spymaster After 100 Days
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has famously promised “moderation” in Iran since being elected president of the Islamic Republic this summer. His intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi...
November 1, 2013
Rouhani’s Failed Human Rights Promises
The first 100 days of Hassan Rouhani’s presidency has done little to improve Iran’s human rights record. Widely hailed as a moderate, Rouhani...
October 22, 2013
The Volgograd Suicide Bombing in Context
A female suicide bomber carried out an attack in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday, killing 6 and injuring 33 civilians on...
October 19, 2013
Saudi Arabia Turns Down UN Security Council Seat
Saudi Arabia made the surprising choice on Friday to give up its first ever sea...
October 11, 2013
Iran’s Central Bank Governor at the World Bank/IMF Summit
Valiollah Seif, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), will be in Washington, DC October 11-13 to attend the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International...
October 8, 2013
Hamas Leader Meets Turkey’s Prime Minster in Ankara
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet today with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Ankara, a...
October 8, 2013
Abdelhakim Belhadj and Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia
Co-authored by Kathleen Soucy A Tunisian investigator leveled explosive new allegations last week against Abdelhakim Belhadj, a prominent Libyan political figure, implicating hi...
October 7, 2013
The Designation of Egypt’s Muhammad Jamal
By David Barnett The U.S. Department of State today announced the designation of Muhammad Jamal and his network...
October 4, 2013
Qatar and the World Cup
Qatar’s plans to host the 2022 World Cup, an event watched by nearly half of...
September 27, 2013
The Ban on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
On September 23, a Cairo court issued a verdict instituting a ban on the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates in Egypt. The decision comes in the wake of recent government raid...
September 26, 2013
Iran Responds to Obama’s UNGA Speech
Iranian press closely associated with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) mocked President Barack Obama for his...
September 25, 2013
Rouhani’s Corrupt Cabinet
Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Most Western observers welcomed the end of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s term with a sigh of relief, interpreting new p...
September 19, 2013
Iran’s Strategy in Syria
“We must possess Syria. If the chain from Lebanon to here is cut, bad things will happen,” former Iranian president Ali-Akbar...
September 19, 2013
Turkey’s Strategy in Syria
“The Assad regime has not lived up to any of its pledges, it has won time for new massacres and continues to do so,” said Turkish Prime Minister...
September 19, 2013
Qatar’s Strategy in Syria
Qatar seeks to turn its newfound energy riches into political power by tapping the strength of...
September 19, 2013
Saudi Strategy in Syria
Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, issued a direct order earlier this month: “...
September 16, 2013
Egypt’s New Political Transition
Egypt’s “Committee of the Fifty,” which serves as a constituent assembly, held its first deliberations last week to draft a new constitution. The meeting was a major milestone,...
September 16, 2013
Iran’s New Defense Minister: A Track Record of Irregular Warfare
The civil war in Syria has made it increasingly difficult for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to claim that his country has embarked on a new or moderate path. Even if Rouhani is truly a moderat...
August 27, 2013
Iran’s New Central Bank Chief
President Hassan Rouhani this week...
August 16, 2013
Hamas, Egypt and the “Rule of Holes”
The rule of holes: when in one, stop digging. This proverb is apparently lost on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The faction, which controls the Gaza Strip, has been under...
August 14, 2013
Iran and African Uranium
By Zachary Elkaim The Zimbabwean government recently issued a denial of a Times of London...
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