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...
Airbus SE
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Policy Briefs
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
If Trump Is Serious About Curbing Iran, He’ll Kill Boeing’s Plan to Sell It Planes
You may have missed it, but there was big news on the Iran front earlier this month. After much hesitation, Total, the French energy giant, plunged back into the Iranian...
Op-eds
‘Principled Realism’
Donald Trump's recent sojourn in the Middle East leaves the United States where it was before the president departed: His administration remains committed to containing Iran while...
Op-eds
The Boeing and Airbus Iran deals shouldn’t fly
Sometimes international law is ambiguous. Sometimes not. When it comes to murdering civilians and using chemical weapons to get the job done, there are no gray areas, no fuzzy lines, no mitigatin...
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
The (limited) mission accomplished in Syria
If you’re still unsure about whether President Trump did the right thing when he launched 59 cruise missiles at Syria’s Shayrat air base last week, consider the alterna...
Op-eds
Rouhani, the Deceiver
In two months’ time — on May 19, to be exact — Iran will hold presidential elections. As things currently stand, odds are that the incumbent, Hassan Rou...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Should Boeing and Airbus sell planes to Iran Air?
FDD Research
Memos
Trump’s first 100 days
It’s apparent that Donald Trump was — to employ a neologism coined by President George W. Bush 16 years ago...
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
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
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
Flying Above the Radar
Sanctions Evasion in the Iranian Aviation Sector
Monographs
Iran Deal Cannot Whitewash Regime’s Deplorable Human Rights Record
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) this week, the Iranian regime continues to repress its p...