Get Ready for a New Type of Israeli War
The focus until now has been on when and where Israel strikes, and not what is being destroyed. But that is now changing.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Inflation in Iran Reaches 23-year Peak
In July 2019, Iran’s 12-month average inflation reached 40.4 percent, according to the Statistical Center of Iran. This is Iran’s highest inflation rate in 23 years, well above the peak inflation...
Policy Briefs
Burning Bridge: The Iranian Land Corridor to the Mediterranean
Monographs
Fars News, the Spider Net of Lies and Deception
Part One: The Men Who Built Fars News
Op-eds
The Revolutionary Guard’s Disinformation Campaign to Dominate Iran’s Economy
hen Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was formed shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution,[note][1] Mohsen Sazegara, “The Revolutionary Guard and the Three Perversions,” Personal...
Op-eds
More than One Year Later, Iran’s Protests Endure
Tehran is caught in a straitjacket
Op-eds
Tehran Counts on a Divided West
The Trump administration must persuade Democrats and foreign allies to counter the regime’s aggression.
Op-eds
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 ...