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...
Ali Akbar Salehi
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...
Op-eds
Extending Extensions
Predictably, President Barack Obama and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have decided to extend again the Joint Plan of Action, the interim nuclear deal they concluded in November 2013. Unlike...
Op-eds
A Bad Deal
We are in an odd situation. President Barack Obama is trying to coerce and cajole Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to compromise on his nuclear quest without using America’s only...
Op-eds
Negotiations on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation...
Congressional Testimonies
Why New Iran Sanctions Are So Important
Trade delegations are clamoring to get into Iran. Economists are now seeing signs of economic recovery after years of sanctions in response to Iran’s illicit nuclear program. And...
Op-eds
How Europe is Speed-Dating Iran
European companies were astonishingly quick to seek new business with Iran following the interim nuclear agreement the P5+1 states and Tehran reached in November 2013....
Op-eds
Negotiating with Ourselves
Analyzing the Islamic Republic isn’t a guessing game—at least it shouldn’t be. Iranian Islamists’ words and deeds are pretty consistent. Memoirs, speeches, and biographies...
Op-eds
Moscow’s American Uranium
By Matt Baker The state-owned Russian nuclear energy company that built Iran’s nuclear reactor in Bushehr is about to finalize a transaction that will give Russia absolute...
Op-eds
Has Assad Already Lost Control of Syria’s Chemical Weapons?
While the debate continues on the administration’s apparent slip of tongue...