Achaemenid Empire

December 2, 2024 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Janatan Sayeh

Natural allies: Iranians reject regime’s anti-Israel policies

Once allies, Iran and Israel now face deep hostility due to the Islamic Republic’s anti-Israel stance; many Iranians, frustrated with the regime’s oppression and failed policies, view Israel as a natural ally, embracing shared interests and historic bonds

July 25, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran stokes antisemitism about ‘Esther, The Girl who became Queen’

“A Zionist hero has infiltrated our streaming services” in Iran

May 28, 2020 | Eliora Katz |

The Old and New Persian Empires

Iraq is invaded and its despot is deposed. Iran encroaches, amassing territory covering Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The year is 539 BCE, though it eerily echoes events following the fall of Saddam...

October 30, 2019 | Samantha Ravich, Annie Fixler

The Economic Dimension of Great-Power Competition and the Role of Cyber as a Key Strategic Weapon

Excerpt Napoleon Bonaparte may have said that an army marches on its stomach, but it is perhaps even truer that a military force marches, sails, flies, and attacks on the back of its nation’s economy....

August 3, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

The Preeminent Challenge

The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia; it doesn’t have the mus...

November 22, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

The battle for the lands of the caliphate

Soon after taking office, President Trump ordered his national security advisers to provide “a complete strategi...

September 20, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

The new Persian empire

Eleven years ago, Henry Kissinger famously said that Iran...

December 10, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Iranian Influence in the South Caucasus and the Surrounding Region

Introduction On behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I would like to thank Chairman Burton and Ranking Member Meeks for the opportunity to submit written...

June 14, 2011 | National Interest Online |

Iran’s Long-Term Security Interests-and Ours

Amitai Etzioni makes a compelling case for a "mutual security enhancement deal" with Iran, predicated on both an implicit deadline and a credible military threat in the absence of agreement. I ha...

September 22, 2008 | Michael Ledeen |

A Proper Welcome

Know your fascist.