Stop Indulging Javad Zarif
There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about the Iranian foreign minister, who is now threatening our think tank.
Ali Akbar Salehi
Politics vs. Protocol: Iran’s Nuclear Archive and the IAEA’s Responsibilities
Monographs
‘America is not the enemy, the enemy is right here’
Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, has described the United States as a “threat to the entire world.” But his daughter Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani is safe in Ohio, where she recently c...
Op-eds
The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...
Op-eds
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
It was surely Barack Obama’s profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled his nuclear diplomacy and made his atomic accord with Iran the worst arms-control agre...
Op-eds
Why Iran won’t rush to a bomb if Trump pulls out of the nuclear deal
With John Bo...
Op-eds
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...
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
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 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
Ensuring Iran’s Enrichment R&D is for Peaceful Purposes
Iran announced last week that it would start feeding its first IR-8 centrifuges with uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). The 2015...
Policy Briefs
Iran Stockpiling Uranium Far Above Current Needs
In a televised speech on January 1, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...
Policy Briefs
Iran Set a Trap
Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...
Op-eds
Iran’s Breakout Time Drops Below Administration Benchmarks
FDD Research
Memos
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
Argentina is Still Helping Iran Cover Up its Role in the Bombing of a Jewish Community Center
July 18th marks 21 years since the largest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history: the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 individuals and wounded...
Op-eds
How Will We Know?
One might think that after the last Iraq war Democrats would be wary of allowing intelligence to dictate policy. Yet that is effectively what Barack Obama has done with the Joint Comprehensive Pl...
Op-eds
Lynch and Nisman: Connecting the Dots Between Two Iranian Plots
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on January 28 for Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become attorney general of the United State...
Policy Briefs
Iran Nuclear Chief Reveals Gaps With P5+1
An unusually extensive interview with the head of the Iran Atomic Energy Organization underscores the yawning gaps still remaining between the positions of the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group...
Policy Briefs
Hamas’s Main Man from Turkey to Tehran
Israel filed a complaint with NATO in late November over Turkey’s role in supporting terrorism i...