Abadan
Cognitive Combat
China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans
Monographs
War in Ukraine Is Destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa
The war in Ukraine is already setting the Middle East on fire.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Treasury Sanctions Airline Ferrying Fighters for Assad
The U.S. Treasury announced new Syria sanctions on Friday, including on...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Iran Air participates in Syrian airlift, but Obama does nothing
Last week, the Obama administration admitted, during a congressional hearing, that it had authorized ...
Op-eds
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 ...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
The risks of the Iran-Boeing deal
Boeing's potential deal to sell aircraft to Iran may have benef...
Op-eds
The Iran-Boeing Deal: Rewards and Risks
Iran’s minister of transport, Abbas Akhoundi, announced an aircraft deal this week with...
Policy Briefs
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 ...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Congressional Testimonies
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...