Abadan

June 14, 2022 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

War in Ukraine Is Destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa

The war in Ukraine is already setting the Middle East on fire.

July 21, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Iranian Express

On November 30, 2016, Syria watcher Tobias Schneider tweeted out pictures of an Iraqi Shia militiaman boarding an Iranian commercial airliner en route to Damascus. One selfie taken on the plane s...

April 17, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Trump’s Syria strategy must target Assad’s chief protector: Iran

The strikes ordered on April 6 by President Trump to respond to Syrian leader Bashar al-A...

December 23, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Treasury Sanctions Airline Ferrying Fighters for Assad

The U.S. Treasury announced new Syria sanctions on Friday, including on...

December 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.

Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...

December 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.

Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...

November 7, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Why Are U.S.-Sanctioned Airlines Still Flying to the Gulf States?

America’s Gulf allies are shooting themselves in the foot. While they strive to push back against Iran’s regional aggression and terrorist proxies, they are allowing operations by a S...

September 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Air participates in Syrian airlift, but Obama does nothing

Last week, the Obama administration admitted, during a congressional hearing, that it had authorized ...

August 24, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Boeing Should Think Twice Before Iran Sale

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached last year between Iran and six world powers lifted sanctions against Iran’s aviation sector, allowing aircraft manufacturers like&nbsp...

July 13, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Mark Dubowitz

The Boeing Sale to Iran Runs Into Turbulence

No wonder the House moved last week to try to block Boeing’s tentative agreement to sell 80 passenger jets to Iran’s government-owned airline, Iran Air. Congress is rightly concerned...

June 21, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The risks of the Iran-Boeing deal

Boeing's potential deal to sell aircraft to Iran may have benef...

June 17, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Iran-Boeing Deal: Rewards and Risks

Iran’s minister of transport, Abbas Akhoundi, announced an aircraft deal this week with...

November 16, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Why Isn’t the Obama Administration Going After Iran’s Mahan Air?

In theory, Iran's Mahan Air is a private commercial airliner that operates dozens of daily passenger flights to domestic and ...

October 13, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

This Iranian Airline is One of the Assad Regime’s Lifelines

It's hard to fly to Damascus these days. Even if Russia's military intervention in the country has the ruling Assad regime breathing easier after months of infighting, manpower...

May 30, 2013 | Mark Dubowitz

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Guardians of the Revolution and Violators of Human Rights

Honorable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear before you today to discuss the role of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a vast system of domestic repres...

May 16, 2011 | Iran Daily

Bandar Abbas to Produce Euro Quality Gasoline

Deputy oil minister has announced the implementation of a plan to improve the quality of gasoline, adding one of the biggest gasoline production projects will come on stream soon. Outlining...

February 26, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Pajamas Media

The Regime Kidnaps Mousavi and Karroubi

Yes it is true, not exactly as any one source has been reporting, but the two top leaders of the Green Movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, were kidnapped on Thursday night — w...

September 13, 2010 | Mark Dubowitz, Reuel Marc Gerecht Wall Street Journal

To Pressure Iran, Squeeze Russia and China

In 1996 Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act with the aim of, among other things, pressuring the regime in Tehran to stop sponsoring terrorism. For a time, the sanctions did annoy those w...