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Justice Department Indicts Sanctioned Hezbollah Financier
Latest Developments The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Hezbollah financier Nazem Said Ahmad and eight associates on April 18 for their alleged role in fraudulent transactions — many in the United...
Flash Briefs
Domestic Investments Can Aid All Democracies
Last summer's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a huge win for America's "green" game, but it also provoked worries among U.S. allies about the protectionism...
Op-eds
Indonesia scores own goal with hostility to Israel
Attempting to ban Israeli athletes proved to be a costly own goal for Indonesia. On Wednesday, FIFA stripped Indonesia of hosting duties for the under-20 soccer World Cup due to Jakarta’s inability...
Op-eds
The United States’ Energy Future Needs Critical Minerals—and Latin America
Energy is a weapon in wartime and a key to prosperity in peacetime. As the world moves towards greater adoption of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to ensure that America’s...
Op-eds
Turkey After Erdogan
Monographs
How human rights activists chased off Venezuela’s strongman
The strongman leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was due to attend a heads of state summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Buenos Aires on Monday. Maduro planned to hold important...
Op-eds
A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption
Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity...
Op-eds
Time for the Biden Administration to Clip the Wings of Iran’s Propaganda Machine
On December 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Al Mustafa International University in Qom, Iran, the principal institution recruiting, indoctrinating, and training foreign converts...
Op-eds
Grounded: Why Biden Must Sanction Iranian Aviation
Iran’s airlift does not rely on a massive fleet. The Biden administration’s sanctions arsenal can make a difference.
Op-eds
Iran’s terror drone pipeline to Moscow
On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide...
Op-eds
Time to Sanction Iranian Pilots
Last month, the Biden administration added four Iranian cargo planes to its U.S. Department of Commerce blacklist of aircraft involved in export control violations. Among the aircraft is a Boeing 747...
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October
Policy Tracker
Biden’s Iran Policy After the Protests
The recent wave of unrest is an opportunity to reset America’s approach to the Islamic Republic.
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September
Policy Tracker
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August
Policy Tracker
Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing
In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior...
Op-eds
Mystery Cargo
Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?
Op-eds
The U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Must Censure Iran
A new agreement with Tehran is pointless if IAEA inspectors are unable to do their jobs properly.