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April 7, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

How Trump can help cripple the Iranian regime

A consensus has developed in Washington for some “push back” against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Democrats and Republicans would be well-advised to learn fr...

April 22, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer, Juan C. Zarate

FDD’s Schanzer and Zarate Testify about Terror Finance Threats

WASHINGTON, DC – As Congress and the administration explore ways to stem the threat of terrorists destabilizing important regions and attacking U.S. interests and those of its allies, Dr. J...

April 22, 2015 | Juan C. Zarate

A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing

Download full testimony here  Cha...

April 28, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran’s Shaved Head Protests: Is Political Unrest Growing Under Rouhani?

The world powers’ negotiation with Tehran over its nuclear military work has overshadowed the Islamic Republic’s deteriorating human rights situation and outbreaks of social protest....

March 27, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Global March for Jerusalem

The first flotilla in 2010 ended in a bloodbath on the high seas, when the Israeli navy intercepted Islamists and activists seeking to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The sec...

October 12, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal The New Republic |

What Europe Isn’t Doing to Stop Syria and Iran

As the world witnesses the Syrian and Iranian regimes commit countless human rights abuses and, in Iran’s case, move ever closer to perfecting its nuclear capabilities, there’s a comm...

June 14, 2011 | FrontPage

Symposium: Energy Independence and the Terror War

What is the best way for us to achieve energy independence? What is the urgency for us to do so in terms of our conflict with Islamo-Fascism? To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage Sympos...

July 26, 2010 |

Can EU Sanctions Stop Iran?

The European Union announced today the imposition of tough sanctions targeting Iran’s energy, shipping, insurance, and financial sectors. After seven years of delay negotiating tactics by t...

June 12, 2010 | Wall Street Journal |

Iran’s Revolution Has Only Just Begun

Today is the first anniversary of the fraudulent election that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, igniting huge demonstrations all over Iran. At the time, very few outside observers bel...

April 28, 2009 | |

New Senate Legislation Would Empower President Obama to Sanction Gasoline Sales to Iran

Supports Obama administration’s diplomatic outreach aimed at ending Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2009)—The Foundation for Defens...

January 13, 2009 |

Why Energy Security Matters Despite Falling Oil Prices

Americans watched helplessly as oil reached an all-time high of over $145 a barrel in July 2008. The climb in prices was relentless: after oil broke $100 a barrel for the first time in January 2008, it seemed that each day of commodities trading brought it to a new high.

January 24, 2007 | |

Will the U.N. Development Program Probe Be Ban Ki-Moon’s First Cover-Up?

For just one day last week, it looked like Ban, in the first real test of his self-proclaimed mission to “restore trust” at the U.N., had risen above the bureaucratic evasions of his...