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March 1, 2012
Iran Further Complicates Relations between Obama, Netanyahu
Though the Israelis agree that stepped-up sanctions are starting to take a toll on Iran, they aren't working fast enough, says Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for...
March 1, 2012
Slaughter of Shiites on the Rise in Pakistan
According to the Long War Journal, Jundallah has a history of targeting Shiites in the country. "The two most high-profile attacks against Shia took place in May 2004, when Jundallah killed 38 Sh...
March 1, 2012
Secret Memo Suggests White House Ignored SOS from Iranian Opposition
"It's clear that the administration was not being asked to stay away," said Michael Ledeen, a scholar with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who worked as a senior official for R...
March 1, 2012
A Call to Arm
But the fact remains that weapons are reaching opposition members, and some, including Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Jonathan Schanzer, believe that since Saudi Arabia is supplying...
February 29, 2012
Iran Suffers ‘Crippling Effect’ of Sanctions
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington research, said the individual sanctions amount to a “co...
February 29, 2012
US Skips Chance to Hit Foreign Firms with New Iran Penalties Before High-Stakes Israel Meeting
Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions expert advising the administration on Iran, said announcing more penalties Wednesday would have sent a message that the administration was serious about sanctions enfor...
February 29, 2012
Global Fuel Shortage Would Grow Without Iran’s Supply, U.S. Says
“The report confirms that the majority of the price increase in February is due to supply and demand factors, with Iran sanctions playing a much less significant role,” Mark Dubowitz,...
February 28, 2012
The Syrian Activist Hit List Looks Like It’s Real
"This kind of info on this scale cannot be available to the general public, or faked." —Ammar Abdulhamid, a fellow at the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies...
February 28, 2012
U.S. Teaming With New Yemen Government on Strategy to Combat Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group’s formal name — stepped in to fill the vacuum. In response, the C.I.A. and Special Operations forces have carried out nearly a dozen drone...
February 27, 2012
Will Israel Act as the West’s Protector?
I asked Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has worked strenuously to develop and advocate for sanctions, where he thought we now stood and whether Israel should doubt...
February 24, 2012
Tunisian President Marzouki Against Military Aid to Syria
“A peaceful solution is a fantasy – we are talking about a war. The opposition needs weapons and funding. We need to start talking about arming the opposition; until then the internat...
February 24, 2012
Swift May Expel Iran’s Central Bank, Hindering Oil Payments
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, said he believes Swift is seeking “political cover to do something unprecedented” tha...
February 23, 2012
Activists Ensure that the World Sees Syria’s Bloodbath
The United States should send a covert team into Syria to assess the rebels and what they need and start working on training, doctrine and building a chain of command, says Tony Badran, a researc...
February 23, 2012
America is Ready to Fix Our Sanctions Mess for Us
It’s also getting a bit much for the fiercely pro-sanctions Foundation for Defense of Democracies, based in Washington, D.C. “Targeting Chinese companies may present a significant pol...
February 22, 2012
International Bank Clearinghouse Ready to Evict Iranian Finance Institutions
“If SWIFT follows through on its public commitment to ban Iranian banks, it could sever the Iranian regime’s financial lifeline,” said Mark Dubowitz, an Iran sanctions expert ad...
February 22, 2012
As Syria Crackdown Intensifies, Debate Rages Over U.S. Options
“What [the Obama administration] wants to see in Syria is a peaceful political solution," said Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Anybody wh...
February 21, 2012
Sanctions May Be Changing Iran’s Nuke Plans
However, Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington think tank, said: "Designing sanctions to make Khamenei relent in his 30-year que...
February 21, 2012
Obama Administration Takes Back Seat on Iran Sanctions
Mark Dubowitz, an energy expert who has been advising Congress on sanctions, said the Obama administration has tried to add sanctions "in a measured way to assure international support and to avo...
February 21, 2012
Iran Offers ‘Readiness’ for Nuclear Talks as It Faces Financial Isolation
“If strictly implemented, this could deny Iran’s banks the ability to move billions of dollars in financial transactions, and put immense pressure on Iran’s leaders to reconside...
February 21, 2012
How Did We Forget About Mutually Assured Destruction?
In the National Review, Clifford D May writes: "During the Cold War, t...
February 21, 2012
Enacting Sanctions on Iran Isn’t Enough
Sheryl Saperia, the Canadian policy director of the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says Canada should be making a serious effort, now more than ever, to ensure that...
February 21, 2012
Conservatives Call for Obama to Intervene in Syria
Fifty-six leading conservative foreign-policy experts wrote an open letter Friday to U.S. President Barack Obama calling on him to directly aid the Syrian opposition and protect the lives of Syri...
February 21, 2012
EU Pays Price for Oil Sanctions on Iran: John Kemp
THE SANCTIONS GAME PLAN In an influential report on the "Oil Market Impact of Sanctions Against the Central Bank of Iran", which has circulated widely in Washing...
February 21, 2012
Swift Says Ready to Implement Sanctions on Iran Institutions
Iran would be the first country to be cut off by Swift, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington policy group, who has advised the...
February 17, 2012
Obama’s Flip-Flop on Nuclear Fuel
I recently wrote about the Obama administration's about-face on allowing Middle East countries to pursue nuclear fuel enrichment. Now, a distinguished group of conservative defense experts (...
February 17, 2012
Would-be China Defector, Once Bo Xilai’s Right Hand, Oversaw Organ Harvesting
“The so called ‘research scene’ that Wang Lijun refers to is either an outright execution site with medical vans, or possibly a medical ward, where peoples’ organs are sur...
February 15, 2012
In Growing Syria Crisis, Obama has Few Options
"As the Obama administration agonizes over arming the opposition, the arming is already happening," said Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washing...
February 12, 2012
Iran: Stay Steady
Clifford May, a perceptive student of geopolitical affairs, reports a glimmer of good news. Tough sanctions may be having an impact on Iran. The sanctions cannot do the job by themselves, however...
February 12, 2012
US Extends Sanctions to Iran’s Central Bank
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, “This executive order is the logical next step in the administration’s economic war on the Irania...
February 12, 2012
US Adds Freeze of Assets to Iran Sanctions
“This is an implementation of the central bank sanctions, designed to primarily target Iranian oil sales,” Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defen...
February 12, 2012
Analysts Talk Arab Spring at Conservative Confab
Reagan administration foreign policy expert Elliott Abrams, Senior Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice David French, and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore were also on the panel, w...
February 12, 2012
EU Sanctions on Iran’s Main Ports Will Slash Trade If Enforced
Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, a research group that supports sanctions on Iran, said the Tidewater ban is an important step...
February 12, 2012
US, Allies Weigh Options in Syria
Some arming of the opposition "is going to be happening in any case, because there are a lot of people in the gulf who see a lot of advantages in accelerating what's going on in Syria," said...
February 9, 2012
CPAC panel debates how the Arab Spring affects the U.S.
Moderator Cliff May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, began by asking the panelists if the Arab Spring was a good thing for America. Even the most optimistic participan...
February 6, 2012
Iran-Sanctions Bid Targets Oil, Tanker Companies
A global oil embargo isn’t the intent of the congressional proposals, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington policy gr...
February 6, 2012
Obama Freezes Iranian Government, Bank Assets in U.S.
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington policy group that has advised the administration and Congress on sanctions, called Obama’s execu...
February 3, 2012
Into the Fray: From Potentate to Puppet?
The current situation – in which Islamic Action Front has just over 5% of the seats in parliament – portrays a deceptive picture of its real political clout. As Jonathan Schanzer obse...
February 2, 2012
‘Begin Military Plans to Thwart Iran Nukes’
Iran is working to obtain a nuclear weapon, a former CIA chief said Wednesday while visiting Israel, and the US should begin military preparations to block the Islamic Republic from reaching that...
February 1, 2012
‘OPEC Can Be Broken By Making Oil The New Salt’
The only way to break the OPEC cartel of oil-producing nations is to figure out how to make the commodity as boring as salt, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Chairman and ex-CIA head James W...
February 1, 2012
Analysis: Oil Reports may Offer Obama an Out on Iran
Nevertheless, the EIA report could act as a political shield if Obama decided to temper the sanctions. Mark Dubowitz, a advocate for tougher Iran sanctions and head of the Foundation for Defense...
January 31, 2012
Swift Sanctions on Iran
Swift is also Iran's gateway to a financial clearing mechanism (known as TARGET 2 and equivalent to the FedWire in the U.S.), through which it conducts much of its $35 billion in trade with...
January 31, 2012
US Lawmakers Take Next Step on New Iran Sanctions
The proposed bill would target companies that do business with the IRGC, which would be "consequential" for the energy sector, said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense...
January 30, 2012
Sanctions Against Iran may Destabilize, Topple Regime by ‘Ratcheting Up Hassle Factor’: Expert
The 9/11 terrorist attacks drove Mark Dubowitz, a young business whiz who worked as a Bay Street lawyer and high-tech venture capitalist in Toronto, to change careers. He moved to Washin...
January 30, 2012
Ahmadinejad’s Call for Talks: Olive Branch or Delay Tactic?
Ahmadinejad’s call for negotiations could also be a desperate attempt to stop sanctions from escalating any further. After all, they’re not insignificant. According to Mark Dubowitz o...
January 27, 2012
Iran Tanker Firm Denies Link to Revolutionary Guard
"The proposed legislation should call on the U.S. administration to designate NITC and NIOC under executive order for their connection to the IRGC. And it should sanction non-U.S....
January 26, 2012
Bank Tejarat Banned by US, EU in Move Stifling Iran Trade
Emanuele Ottolenghi, an Iran sanctions specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute, said the designation of Bank Tejarat was an important st...
January 26, 2012
Going Where No Envoy has Gone Before
Khairi Abaza, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted that the Al-Nour Party could cause an issue because "they do not believe in democracy the way the other Egyptian...
January 24, 2012
EU imposes Iran Oil Embargo
"If you had told me a year or two ago that the Europeans would do something like this, I would have said you were crazy," said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of D...
January 24, 2012
Afghan Troops Ramp Up Attacks on Western Trainers, Threatening Allied War Effort
“It’s sort of a catch-22,” said Bill Roggio, the editor of Long War Journal, a Web site that closely tracks the Afghan war. “Our plan is to turn the country over to the Af...
January 24, 2012
UK, EU Lobby To Protect Key Azeri Gas Project From Iran Sanctions
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the December U.K. delegation in Washington was comprised of members of the Treasury, the foreign office and of...
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