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March 4, 2025 | |

Putin Spokesman Confirms Russian Offer to Mediate Between U.S. and Iran Over Iranian Nuclear Program

‘U.S. and Iran Should Solve All Problems Through Negotiations’: A top spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime confirmed on March 4 that Moscow was willing...

January 24, 2025 | |

‘Not Written in Stone’: Israel Set to Extend Lebanon Truce Deadline

LAF Takeover Incomplete: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 24 said that the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon is not likely to be completed in full by the...

September 11, 2024 | |

Israel Offers to Allow Sinwar Safe Passage Out of Gaza to Free Hostages

Israeli ceasefire negotiators offered Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar safe passage out of the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of all of Israel’s hostages, Israeli hostage envoy...

July 18, 2024 | |

U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian Officials Met to Discuss Control of Rafah Crossing

Latest Developments Officials from the United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) held a secret meeting in Tel Aviv last week to discuss reopening the Rafah crossing between Egypt and...

November 7, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

How the U.S. Can Slash Tehran’s Oil Revenue 

Tehran exported 1.4 million barrels per day of crude oil last month, of which 74 percent went to China. The Biden administration has deliberately relaxed the enforcement of oil sanctions since taking office,...

October 23, 2023 | David Adesnik |

Biden must take Iran threat seriously — and wage economic war

Iran-backed militias are shooting at American troops in Iraq and Syria and getting away with it. On Monday morning, the militias targeted US bases with attack drones for the third time in a week. The...

September 28, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

The Monetary Value of Relaxed Oil Sanctions Enforcement by the Biden Administration

“U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News revealed last month. The dollar value of this sanctions relief...

August 9, 2023 | |

U.S. Denies Significant Progress in Saudi-Israel Normalization  

The Biden administration on August 9 denied reports that the United States and Saudi Arabia had agreed to a framework that would see the Arab kingdom normalize relations with Israel. National Security...

March 13, 2023 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

Russia Is Fueling China’s Nuclear Weapons Expansion

A senior Department of Defense official on Wednesday confirmed media reports that Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, provided China with nuclear fuel for a key reactor that will enable...

February 20, 2023 | |

Iran Enriching Uranium to Near Weapons-Grade

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has detected Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 84-percent purity at the Fordow underground facility, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday....

February 4, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran is already winning

The ayatollahs are smiling

January 8, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Turkey’s Frantic Gold Rush Points to a Financial Crisis Ahead

As ordinary citizens seek to preserve their wealth, President Recep Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party is finding new ways to take advantage of the gold rush.

October 7, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkish Public Lender Fails Again to Scuttle Iran Sanctions Evasion Case

A Manhattan federal judge on October 1 refused to dismiss an indictment accusing Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by the Turkish government, of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. In the event of...

September 4, 2020 | Andrea Stricker, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Secret Sites in the Desert: The Dangers of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Hedging

If Washington fails to convince Riyadh, a regional partner, not to opt for domestic enrichment, then it will face greater hurdles getting Iran to accept limits on its own program.

September 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Grenell: Volkswagen to comply with US sanctions on Iran

The US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen will leave the Iranian market to comply with US sanctions on the Islam...

June 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: How Gulf States can get Europe to Abandon Iran

The protests sweeping across Iran are a clear sign the country’s economy and its Islamic revolutionary system are ready to buckle. The Gulf states can play a critical role in stymi...

May 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Saudi Arabia stops new business with Germany over its pro-Iran policy

Riyadh pulled the plug on awarding government contracts to German companies, in a possible response to Berlin’s pro-Iranian regime polices and its accusation that the kingdom’s foreig...

November 28, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is the Price of Watermelons Relevant to Iran’s Nuclear Crisis?

The founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, famously said the 1979 Islamic Revolution was “not about the price of watermelons.” To parse...

December 6, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

We Really Need to Talk About Corruption

If peace were suddenly to break out in the Middle East, John Kerry would undoubtedly assure his place in the Secretary of State Hall of Fame. Defiantly challenging a chorus of naysayers at home a...

September 3, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is *Really* Good at Evading Sanctions

Ever since Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program was first exposed in 2002, efforts to convince Tehran to abandon the program have focused on two strategies. One is diplomacy and dialo...