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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...

February 12, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The return of the Monroe Doctrine

Sanders aside, Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader

July 11, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

30 German mosques and cultural centers tied to Hezbollah: intel report

Some 30 mosques and cultural centers in Germany have ties to...

August 15, 2017 | Tony Badran |

The Pentagon Fills Hezbollah’s Shopping List

In recent years, federal law enforcement agencies have repeatedly arrested Hezbollah operatives in the US who were trying to procure weapons and other combat-related equi...

March 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Texas, Spanish Banks Slammed Over Israel-Boycott Accounts

Two giant financial institutions – Dallas-based Comerica and Spain’s La Caixa – are caught in the crossfire of criticism from politicians and human rights organizations over a f...

January 30, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Final Obama Scandal

Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes.  Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...

January 23, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The New Bin Laden Documents

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released 98 additional items from Osama bin Laden's compound today. If the ODNI has its way, then these files will be th...

December 1, 2016 | Juan C. Zarate

The Future of Counter-Terrorism Strategy

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November 9, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

Not a Conspiracy

In May, the London Review of Books published a 10,000-word exposé by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the killing of Osama bin Laden. It was widely read online, receiving...

August 12, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Chuck Schumer a Letter

Or may I call you “Chuck”? About 30 years ago when I first met you, you were an informal kind of guy. You had recently been elected to the House from a district in Brooklyn and Queens...