Iran: The Shi’ite Imperial Power
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American Enterprise Institute
John Bolton: A complex worldview that just might work for Trump
Long before John Bolton was named as President Trump's new national security adviser, a position he assumes on Monday, his name sparked diametrically opposite reactions in Washington....
Op-eds
Give anti-globalism a chance
“Globalism” is one of those Humpty Dumpty words that seems to mean whatever those using it “choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”...
Op-eds
Germany Permits Iranian Regime Mass Murderer to Flee the Country
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi – considered a successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – fled Germany on Thursday for Iran amid criminal complaints filed against him for ...
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
Tillerson Warns Against Doing Business With Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned global companies that they do business with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “at their own risk,” remarks that will add to investment uncertai...
Op-eds
Like with DACA, Trump may leave Iran nuclear deal’s fate to Congress
An emerging pattern in the Trump administration is to declare opposition to an Obama executive action but then leave the actual work of dealing with the consequences of that decision to Congress....
Op-eds
Syria’s chemical program: Rubio ‘gravely concerned’ about Iran & Russia complicity
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Fox News he’s “gravely concerned” about Iran’s role in helping Syria develop its chemical warfare program that ended up killing dozens of peo...
Op-eds
Analysis: How Iran Exploits ISIS to Wage Terror
The intense Western effort to decimate Islamic State after the terrorist entity executed attacks in Paris has largely relegated Iranian and Hezbollah jingoism in Syria and Iraq to a secondary sta...
Op-eds
The Iran Deal: Persisting Problems
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Op-eds
Ben Carson says Mahmoud Abbas, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin knew each other in 1968 Moscow
It sounds like the opening to a joke: A young Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk into a Soviet-era Moscow university &...
Op-eds
Analysis: Still Hope for Regime Change in Iran
To better understand the Islamic Republic of Iran, don’t turn straight away to the front page of the newspaper. Rather flip to the labor union and business sections and press. Growing worke...
Op-eds
Still Hope for Regime Change in Iran
To better understand tha Islamic Republic of Iran, don’t turn straight away to the front page of the newspaper. Rather flip to the labor union and business sections and press. Growing worke...
Op-eds
Defeating Civilization’s Enemies
“The enemy has to be defeated,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter last week told American forces stationed in the Middle East. That is a simple truth, one that, regrettably, is...
Op-eds
The Iran-North Korea Strategic Alliance
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Congressional Testimonies
Analysis: Why Germany is the Weakest Western Link in Nuclear Talks With Iran
With the Iran nuclear talks entering the final stretch in Vienna, Germany’s role in the negotiations to end Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program has largely escaped scrutiny....
Op-eds
Analysis: To confront Iran’s jingoism and domestic repression, change its regime
The self-immolation death of an Iranian Arab last week in the province of Khuzestan offers a window onto the court of a neglected alternative to an Iran on the brink of nuclear weapons breakout:...
Op-eds
New FDD Report Provides In-Depth Analysis of Iranian Leaders Engaged in Nuclear Talks
Read full report here WASHINGTON – A new monograph released to...
Press Releases
FDD Research Fellow to Testify Before Congress Wednesday on the Iranian Threat
WASHINGTON- Tony Badran, research fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Wednesday on “Sta...
Press Releases
FDD Vice President to Testify Before Congress Wednesday on Palestinian Authority’s Bid at the ICC
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Wednesday on “...