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November 16, 2023 10 Things to Know About the UN and Hamas The United Nations (UN) is generating pressure on Israel to stop defending itself against the terrorist organization Hamas following the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, 2023.... November 14, 2023 10 Things to Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program The Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to the destruction of the United States and Israel, posing conventional threats worldwide via its terrorist proxies. Back home, Tehran is increasingly poised to... November 6, 2023 10 Things to Know About Hamas Tunnels The terrorist organization Hamas operates an extensive and sophisticated tunnel system to transport weapons, store supplies, and train operatives. The network zigzags for hundreds of miles under the Gaza... November 3, 2023 10 Things to Know About Hezbollah 1. Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah (also spelled “Hizballah”) is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a political party based in Lebanon. The... November 2, 2023 5 Things to Know About the Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry The Gaza Health Ministry – the Hamas-controlled Gaza branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Health – is the predominant source of information on casualties in Gaza. The Washington Post quoted a reporter... October 30, 2023 10 Things to Know About Hamas and Hospitals Hamas has commanded a network of tunnels and terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since it took control in 2007. The Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization uses civilian... October 24, 2023 Can the U.S. Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan at the Same Time? The Biden administration has moved quickly to send Israel weapons following Hamas’ deadly October 7 terror attack. This laudable step has some asking whether U.S. military assistance to Israel might... October 16, 2023 10 Things to Know About Hamas What is Hamas? Hamas is an Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas’ 1988 charter states: “Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and... September 28, 2023 The Monetary Value of Relaxed Oil Sanctions Enforcement by the Biden Administration “U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News revealed last month. The dollar value of this sanctions relief... September 5, 2023 Former President of Federated States of Micronesia David W. Panuelo Warns Country Could See Democratic Backsliding New, exclusive interview with former President of Federated States of Micronesia, David W. Panuelo. August 7, 2023 FDD Supplemental Iran Nuclear Assessment to ODNI Annual Report On July 10, 2023, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published a report for Congress about Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities, as required by law.1 “Iran is not currently... May 16, 2023 The real power behind Paraguay’s new president On Sunday April 30, moments after giving his acceptance speech, Paraguay’s president-elect Santiago Peña welcomed the former president, Horacio Cartes, to join him on the podium. The adoring crowd erupted... April 14, 2023 Avoid Overconfidence When It Comes to Middle East Air and Missile Defense After months of rising tensions, terrorists fired at least 30 rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel last Thursday, 25 of which were shot down, presumably by Iron Dome The rockets were allegedly... March 21, 2023 What’s in the Saudi Iranian Beijing Deal? Other than promising not to intervene in each other’s affairs and to restore diplomatic ties, Saudi Arabia and Iran did not agree to much in the deal that they signed in Beijing earlier this month. But... March 20, 2023 Biden’s Opportunity to Stop Violent Extremists From Exploiting Cryptocurrency The Biden administration intends to crack down on crypto abuse by following a roadmap for regulation it unveiled in January. Calls for reform intensified after the crypto market’s tumultuous end to 2022,... February 17, 2023 Sen. Cotton Legislation Seeks to Expedite Efforts to Strengthen Israel’s Security Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced new legislation on Thursday to expedite Israel’s ability to operate its own KC-46 refueling aircraft in support... February 7, 2023 Morningstar Misleads Investors on Its Anti-Israel Bias — Again The investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. committed last October to making changes to its Sustainalytics environmental, social, and governance (ESG) subsidiary’s research in response to FDD’s ongoing... January 24, 2023 With an Eye on Adversaries, the U.S. and Israel Conduct Major Military Exercise The United States and Israel kicked off the week-long Juniper Oak 23 multi-domain military exercise on Monday in Israel. A senior U.S. defense official called it the “most significant” bilateral exercise... December 20, 2022 The U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group Gets Busy Leaders from the Pentagon and Israel’s Ministry of Defense convened the second meeting of the U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Group (OTWG) in Israel last month to advance research and development (R&D)... 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 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... October 3, 2022 Islamist cleric who called for fighting America, suicide bombings, dies in Qatar An Egyptian cleric who, only five days after 9/11, called on Muslims to “fight the American military” and “fight the U.S. economically and politically,” has died at age 96. Yusuf al-Qaradawi had... September 29, 2022 The Wagner Group: Paramilitary Terrorism President Biden recently stated he would deny congressional resolutions to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The president’s response comes amid a broader discussion of how to counter... September 2, 2022 Pentagon Announces Contract for Israeli KC-46s but Has More Work To Do The Pentagon announced on Wednesday an up to $927 million foreign military sale contract with Boeing to provide Israel four KC-46A air refueling aircraft, with the first currently expected to arrive in... August 19, 2022 Tehran’s $1 Trillion Deal: An Updated Forecast of Iran’s Financial Windfall From a New Nuclear Agreement European and American diplomats say negotiations over the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran have reached their final stage. As a series of previous FDD publications have shown, the new nuclear deal would... June 2, 2022 Israeli-Saudi Deal Over Two Islands Is a Step Toward Peace Israel and Saudi Arabia have reportedly agreed on a security arrangement enabling Egypt to transfer to the Saudis two strategic islands near Israel. In return for Israel’s acquiescence, Saudi Arabia is... April 12, 2022 How Russia Could Earn Billions From Biden’s Revival of the Nuclear Deal With Iran The Biden administration has two goals that are at odds with each other. It wants to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia, and it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The problem is the 2015... March 18, 2022 Canada Must Bar Iranian Officials From Entering the Country It was, at first glance, an unremarkable sight. A man in his 60s, sporting a green T-shirt and blue shorts, walks on a treadmill in a Toronto-area fitness center. Younger men and women exercise on adjacent... February 21, 2022 Russia-Georgia 2008: a Blueprint for Russia-Ukraine 2022? The Olympics were about to start in Beijing. Thousands of miles to the west, Russia was wrapping up a big military exercise in a border region. Across the border, women and children were evacuated from... February 16, 2022 Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of... January 30, 2022 Terrorists Benefit from Qatar’s Goodwill and Charity On Monday, President Joe Biden will have a busy meeting at the White House with Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad. Qatar hosts one of the biggest U.S military bases in the Gulf region and has been instrumental... October 26, 2021 Landmark Iran Sanctions Ruling Against Turkish Public Lender Builds U.S. Deterrence A U.S. appeals court ruled on October 22 that Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund, cannot claim sovereign immunity under U.S. law to scuttle a federal criminal case... October 22, 2021 Iran’s Nuclear Extortion Continues Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), recently proclaimed that the Islamic Republic is ahead of schedule on a parliamentary mandate to enrich 120 kg of uranium to 20 percent... October 22, 2021 Turkey Lands on Anti-Money Laundering Watchlist — Again The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Paris-based global money laundering and terror financing watchdog, added Turkey to its “grey list” on Thursday, placing Ankara alongside 22 other jurisdictions,... October 21, 2021 In His Second Term, Trudeau Must Fix His Iran Policy Last month’s re-election of Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister provides an opportunity to reflect on Ottawa’s relationship with the Islamic Republic in Iran. Iran policy is an issue of great... August 31, 2021 Bipartisan Effort to Deepen Defense Cooperation with Israel Advances To strengthen bilateral cooperation on military research and development (R&D), Reps. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) announced today their introduction of an amendment (#1197) to the... August 3, 2021 Analysis of Unilever Letter on Ben & Jerry’s BDS Activity Unilever CEO Alan Jope sent a letter to major Jewish organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom on July 27, 2021, in an effort to defend the company’s decision earlier last month to terminate... July 20, 2021 How to Stop China From Controlling the Global Semiconductor Industry The United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) of 2021, which passed the Senate in June, calls for $52 billion in appropriations over five years to support semiconductor manufacturing as well... July 2, 2021 Add Egypt and the UAE to the Noble Dina Exercise During the conflict between Hamas and Israel last May, the terror group attempted to use rockets and an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to attack Israel’s maritime assets in the Eastern Mediterranean.... June 23, 2021 How Deceptive Techniques Enhance the Capabilities of Cyber Defenders Introduction The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies held a live exercise to demonstrate the usefulness of incorporating deceptive techniques alongside... June 17, 2021 Ali Larijani, Iran’s Rejected Hardliner It wasn’t supposed to end this way. On May 15, Ali Larijani, the former speaker of Iran’s parliament, registered to run for president. Ten days later, the Guardian Council – an unelected, 12-member... June 10, 2021 In Response to Houthi Arms Transfers, Canada Must Designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as Terror Group They lay in neat, organized rows, a colorful medley of matériel on the deck of the USS Monterey. Some 3,000 Chinese Type 56 assault rifles. Hundreds of heavy machine guns and sniper rifles. Several hundred... May 28, 2021 Biden Gets It Wrong in the Pacific and Afghanistan To support the Biden administration’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon plans to shift the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike group from its normal area of responsibility in... May 18, 2021 The Conflict in Gaza and the Connection to Tehran and the United States This war in Gaza began like previous rounds of fighting between Israel and Hamas, but there is a chance – or a risk – of a different ending. Like before, the conflict began because of events on a different... May 14, 2021 Tehran’s Terror Proxies in Gaza Escalate Attacks on Israeli Civilians Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have targeted Israeli civilians with a greater volume of rocket fire this week than in previous rounds of conflict. A closer analysis shows why the two terror groups’... May 14, 2021 Rescinding the IRGC’s Terror Designation Would Harm American Victims of Terrorism As part of negotiations in Vienna, Iran’s clerical regime has reportedly requested that the Biden administration rescind the U.S. government’s formal designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps... April 16, 2021 Iran’s Economy Did Not Grow in 2020 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) earlier this month released a report updating its estimate of Iran’s GDP growth in 2020 from a 4.99 percent contraction (projected in October 2020) to 1.5 percent... April 16, 2021 Washington Must Confront Iran Over Sensitive Nuclear Work With Israel’s alleged covert action against Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant on April 11, Tehran’s latest breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal are in danger of premature burial by the news cycle. Yet the... April 9, 2021 Austin Makes First Trip to Israel as Defense Secretary The Pentagon announced Thursday that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will visit Israel next week. Austin likely wants to reassure Israel as the White House seeks to re-enter the deeply flawed Iran nuclear... March 18, 2021 The Biden Administration’s Playbook for Lifting Iran-Related Terrorism Sanctions In his confirmation hearing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that lifting terrorism sanctions on Iran would not advance U.S. national security interests. Weeks later, however, the Biden administration...

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