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.
Buenos Aires
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
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
Don’t Bury Alberto Nisman Again
Those with the legal duty to seek the truth have done just the opposite. They are seeking to bury Alberto Nisman and his investigation once again.
Op-eds
Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice
If Rezaee travels with impunity, Iran will seek to further push the limits, and legitimize the accused in the same way that it has done with near impunity in the nuclear file.
Op-eds
It’s Time for Biden to Leave a Bad Deal in the Past
A change in Iranian presidents doesn’t change the badness of the Iran deal.
Op-eds
Iran Commemorates the Death of Qassem Soleimani
Pro-Iranian outlets, including affiliates of Iran’s Al-Mustafa International University, earlier this month commemorated the first anniversary of the death of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, whom...
Policy Briefs
Justice is elusive six years after the murder of Alberto Nisman
This week marks six years since Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found lifeless in his apartment. He was found dead the day before he was to provide evidence to the Argentine Congress he...
Op-eds
Remembering the AMIA Bombing: Why It Matters 26 Years Later
lberto Nisman, the tireless Argentine prosecutor who led the decade-long investigation into the bombing of the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center in downtown Buenos Aires, once told me that when Argentina’s...
Op-eds
Who Runs Iran’s Propaganda Machine Abroad
In its efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the religious dictatorship in Tehran has been consistently negligent. Yet the regime has been remarkably eager to claim that it deserves immediate relief...
Op-eds
Justice demanded for Argentina’s slain terrorism prosecutor
Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost...
Op-eds
Argentina’s new leadership carries old baggage of corruption and conspiracy allegations
The baggage contains both economic and moral peril for the South American country, as well as danger for its tenuous relationship with the U.S.
Op-eds
Erdogan to visit White House after welcoming Iranian terrorist to Turkey
President Donald Trump will host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House tomorrow; the timing of Erdogan’s visit is awkward because his government just hosted an Iranian official implicated...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Officials Tied to Iran’s Supreme Leader
The United States on Monday sanctioned Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff (AFGS) and nine individuals responsible for implementing the extremist policies – both at home and abroad – of Iran’s supreme...
Policy Briefs
UK to outlaw Hezbollah’s so-called political wing
Home Secretary Sajid Javid is expected to 'proscribe the entire Shia organization as a terrorist group,' according to the report, a move that must be approved by Parliament.
Op-eds
Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran
The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...
Op-eds
The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Minister of Intelligence and Security
On January 1, 24-year-old Saru Ghahremani attended one of Iran’s nationwide protests and vanished. Eleven days later, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)&nbs...
Op-eds
The Mystery Martyr
Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...
Op-eds
The terrorist A-Team
Fifteen years ago, deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage called Hezbollah the “A-Team of terrorists.” He...