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March 7, 2025 | Will Selber |

Recent arrests of Islamic State sympathizers highlight persistent threats to US

In the early morning hours of January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Houston, drove his rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing...

February 21, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

The dreaded moment is finally here

An eerie ceremony that Palestinian Arabs held in Gaza as two small caskets were shown mocked the youngest of the remaining hostages, little Ariel and Kfir Bibas, even in death.

December 17, 2024 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States

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August 7, 2024 | |

U.S. Charges Pakistani Man With Iran-Backed Plot to Assassinate Government Officials

The United States charged a Pakistani national with a thwarted Iran-backed plot to assassinate American government officials, the U.S. Justice Department disclosed on August 6. The...

July 17, 2024 | |

Iran Plots Assassination of Trump

Latest Developments Iran plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump in recent weeks, U.S. authorities told CNN in a July 16 report. Unrelated to the failed assassination attempt against Trump...

July 10, 2024 | |

Iran Supporting and Funding Pro-Hamas Protests in the U.S.

Following several months of often violent pro-Hamas protests across the United States, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, stated on July 9 that the Islamic...

May 30, 2024 | |

Maryland Court Issues Restraining Order Against U.S.-Based Iranian Diplomat

A Maryland court issued a temporary restraining order on May 28 against an employee of Iran’s Interests Section in Washington — the Islamic Republic’s de facto consular office...

March 8, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer, Natalie Ecanow

Biden’s State Department ignores Iranian death plots inside America

It took quite a bit longer than it should have, but the State Department finally released its 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism. As ever, the document covers the countries that experienced attacks, those...

January 31, 2023 | |

DOJ Reveals New Iran-backed Assassination Attempt on Iranian American Journalist

Latest Developments  The Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed on Friday that the FBI disrupted another plot to assassinate Brooklyn-based Iranian -American journalist Masih Alinejad. A federal court in...

September 28, 2022 | Natalie Ecanow |

Trusting Iran Compromises Our National Security

Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton. In the alleged murder-for-hire...

August 18, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

Another Iran Deal? Looking Back and Looking Ahead

February 7, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran ‘sham’ trial of California resident sparks allegations that world powers have abandoned him

Iranian regime 'scapegoating an innocent man' over bombing allegations, Jamshid Sharmahd's daughter says

September 28, 2021 | Gabriel Noronha, Andrea Stricker, Matthew Zweig

If Biden Won’t Stand Up to Iran, Congress Should Stand Up to Biden

It should intervene using the legislation it passed in 2015 to force a vote to deny Iran sanctions relief.

August 13, 2021 | Toby Dershowitz, Dylan Gresik

Iranian intelligence plot reaches US soil — and should complicate negotiations

Excerpt In mid-July, the Department of Justice charged that the Islamic Republic of Iran directed four intelligence operatives to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist, from her home...

August 4, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian athletes at Tokyo Olympics remember murdered wrestler Navid Afkari

A defector from the Islamic Republic displayed a picture of Afkari attached to a flag: 'We’ll always commemorate him'

July 28, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Tehran’s crimes, acts of war, and other provocations

Unless Biden responds forcefully to the latest, expect more

July 16, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How Iranian Intelligence Hunts Down Dissidents While Protecting Al-Qaeda

Court documents show that the regime has long been trying to kidnap an Iranian journalist living in Brooklyn.

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson, Austin Blair

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

August 4, 2020 | James Rickards |

Crisis in Lebanon

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

May 13, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

How to Decouple Key Supply Chains from China

The great power competition between Washington and Beijing is heating up. The U.S. effort to contain China’s rise is now on full display, as the Trump administration (rightly) blames China for failing...