Tehran Counts on a Divided West
The Trump administration must persuade Democrats and foreign allies to counter the regime’s aggression.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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...
Op-eds
Iran’s Long, Bloody History of Terror and Espionage in Europe
The Iranian regime’s potent espionage and assassination network in Europe has operated largely without interruption since the Islamic revolution of 1979. European governments have caught an...
Op-eds
Trump doesn’t know it, but Iranians are the Norwegians he’s been looking for
The White House wants to keep Iranians out of the United States. Special circumstances will allow entrance to a lucky few, but standard non-immigrant and immigrant admiss...
Op-eds
Iranian Terror. Argentinian Cover Up. Justice at Last?
One morning last week, Argentines woke up to a political earthquake: A judge...
Op-eds
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
In Iran’s Election, Americans Should Root for the ‘Hard-Liner’
In Washington there is a consensus that the re-election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in the best interests of the U.S. Most find the self-avowed pragmatic cleric, who championed the 201...
Op-eds
Hardline Iranian Cleric Announces Presidential Run
A hardline Iranian political coalition...
Policy Briefs
Spiritual Ardor and Military Might: The Story of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
This past September in an audience hall in Tehran, a prominent vocalist named Sadegh Ahangaran took to a microphone to j...
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
Defining violent extremism down
Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...
Op-eds
Rafsanjani: A Revolutionary, Not a Reformer
Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of a heart attack Sunday at age 82. Often described as a “...
Policy Briefs
The Death of Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a Machiavellian Prince
Co-written by Ali Alfoneh. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the principal architect of the Islamic Republic, died of a heart attack at 82. The former parliamentary speake...
Op-eds
Iran’s Rafsanjani: A legacy of terrorism and repression behind a facade of moderation
Shortly before ...
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Pro-Iran group to urge Germans to vote Israel is illegal
The radical Islamic pro-Iran regime NGO “The Feather” announced that it will urge Germans to reject Israel’s existence on Saturday at an information stand in the the north...
Op-eds
Obama Can’t Let Iran Get Away With Murder
The Obama administration has long said it will hold Iran accountable for acts of terrorism. It now has a chance to prove it: Interpol red notices for five former Iranian officials found culpable in...
Op-eds
The Obama Administration Gambled On Tehran’s Moderation — And Failed
A year ago, the Obama administration made a gamble, striking a nuclear accord with Tehran that it hoped would transform its behavior, leading to a thaw in bilateral relations and a more stable Mi...
Op-eds
Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
Op-eds
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
As has been obvious since his time as the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Javad Zarif is capable of creating a distortion field around him that often r...
Op-eds
Hillary Clinton, Neocon?
With terror in Brussels swamping the news cycle last week, speeches delivered to AIPAC’s Policy Conference by four leading U.S. presidential candidates,&n...