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January 11, 2024 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

COMAC Comes to Europe: strategic implications of the commercial aerospace battleground

China’s COMAC is out of the gates hot in the new year. The state-owned commercial aerospace champion is officially working to receive European certification for its C919 aircraft. COMAC’s...

January 15, 2023 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Germany’s Bet on China Is a Crisis in the Making

If companies and their jobs leave for China, it will be hard for Germans to ignore the economic and social implications of significant job flight.

December 13, 2022 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

Germany’s Faustian entanglement with China

Back in November, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Xi Jinping. His visit to China was the first by a G7 leader in three years. Facing heated domestic...

November 10, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s terror drone pipeline to Moscow

On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide...

August 2, 2022 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

It’s time for a US-EU industrial strategy on China – even if it costs industry.

If the US and Europe are going to be on the same page when challenging China’s geopolitical goals, they must ensure that their industrial bases are, too.

March 12, 2022 | James Brooke |

Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s

When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...

December 1, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

Should Europeans invest in Iran? No! Even after 2025

After years of international isolation, economic instability, and sanctions, European companies may be tempted to resume business with Iran if Washington and Tehran revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Before...

July 15, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

Why won’t Trudeau demand more from Iran?

The Islamic Republic in Iran is about to execute three young Iranian men for their participation in the November 2019 popular uprising against the regime. But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is no...

May 1, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Airlifting Supplies to Venezuela. The Trump Administration Should Move to Block It.

The Islamic Republic can leverage the Maduro regime's ability to access sanctioned goods as payment for its services.

November 19, 2018 | Toby Dershowitz, Serena Frechter

Hezbollah on Trial in Europe

Fifteen Hezbollah-linked defendants accused of laundering millions of euros in South American drug money to Europe and Lebanon...

November 6, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

New Treasury Sanctions Target Iran Air

In its largest ever single-day action against Iran, the U.S. Treasury designated...

September 20, 2018 | David Adesnik, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Europe’s Leading Companies Are Bowing to U.S. Sanctions

Corporate Europe is bowing to the pressure of Washington’s unilateral sanctions on Iran. The continent’s leading multinational firms, such as Airbus, Maersk, Peugeot, Total, and Sieme...

September 9, 2018 | |

Major Global Companies are Leaving Iran to Avoid U.S. Sanctions: FDD Study

(Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2018) – Major international corporations are leaving Iran rather than face the risk of unilateral U.S. sanctions, despite the efforts of European governments to neutrali...

March 2, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump Should Block Iran’s Air Corridor to Syria

Last month, an Iranian drone reportedly violated Israeli airspace after taking off from a base i...

December 15, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Deceptive Deja Vu

In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...

October 16, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Trump throws a Hail Mary pass against Iran

President Trump has finally decertified his predecessor's nuclear agreement with Iran. Twice before, in April and July, Trump certified, per the requirement in the 2015 Iran Nuclear Review A...

October 6, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

No Easy Way Out

By October 15, Donald Trump must decide what to do with his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. He has felt obliged, against his instincts, to recertify the deal every 90 days, per t...

August 31, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The nuclear deal is on a knife-edge…but Iran is thriving

The Iran nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), that was implemented in January 2016 has emboldened Iran and given its leaders additional resources to pu...

August 16, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: Iran And Russia Violated UN Weapons Sanctions

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia used a smuggling route to transport offensive weapons, allegedly in violation of UN Resolution 2231, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on...

August 2, 2017 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Ramps Up Purchases of Commercial Aircraft from U.S. and Europe

Last June, a trio of Iranian airlines announced plans to purchase a total of 83 new planes from Airbus an...