Al Arabiya
Engines of Influence
Turkey’s Defense Industry Under Erdogan
Memos
Collusion or Collision?
Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin
Monographs
Don’t Believe Predictions of a Rift Between Iran and Syria
Last week, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly expelled Javad Ghaffari, the top Iranian commander in Syria, spurring hopes that Damascus is on the brink of a realignment that would draw it closer...
Op-eds
The Sanctioned Cabinet of Ebrahim Raisi
Visuals
The Bizarre Positive Biden Spin on Afghanistan
No, the Taliban are not America’s partners
Op-eds
Lebanon-Egypt gas wild theories unfounded: US plan is pro-Iran, pro-Hezbollah
The US ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, confirmed recently that the Biden administration is facilitating the export of Egyptian natural gas and Jordanian surplus electricity to Hezbollah-controlled...
Op-eds
The Laundromat: Hezbollah’s Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America
Executive Summary On January 6, 2021, the Gulf news network Al Arabiya published an explosive revelation. In late 2016, a high-placed Hezbollah operative named Nasser Abbas Bahmad came to what is known...
Op-eds
Khamenei is Iran’s most important voter, and he wants more extremism, not less
Elections have consequences, even in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nobody knows this better than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the country’s most powerful person and most important “voter.” Through...
Op-eds
US-based Iranian professor under fire for hiding facts about 1988 massacre
Several activists and human rights organizations have launched a campaign against Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to the United Nations who now serves as a professor at Oberlin College...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s al-Qard al-Hasan and Lebanon’s Banking Sector
Memos
Iran Is More Than Persia
Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic
Monographs
Biden, Congress Should Defend Missile Sanctions Imposed on Iran
Memos
The flagging fight for freedom
The brave few on the front line deserve our support
Op-eds
Turkey’s Ziraat Bank Under Scrutiny
Irregularities Point to Erdoğan’s Manipulation of Financial System to Consolidate Power
Memos
Iran
Iraq
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Amid terror finance allegations, Qatar lobbies for US F-35 fighter jets
"Given Qatar’s track record of financing and helping terrorists and its extraordinary links with Iran, giving it F-35s will undermine the advantage of the US, Israel and their regional allies"
Op-eds
Hassan Rouhani wants the US to surrender, but the pressure is on Tehran
“Surrender.” That’s the only option Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered America during his (now forgotten) virtual address to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...