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June 17, 2024 | |

IAEA Chief Says 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Means Nothing,’ Touts Iran’s Cooperation with Russia

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi told Russian state media that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal “exists only on paper and means nothing” in...

April 15, 2024 | |

Congress Seeks Answers on U.S. Failure to Sanction Iran-Russia Nuclear Cooperation

Congress is seeking an explanation from the Biden administration for its failure thus far to sanction Russia for assisting Iran’s nuclear program, as required by U.S. law. In February...

September 22, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Israel must not roll the dice when it comes to nuclear threats

If Israel's rejection of allowing enrichment in Saudi Arabia means the derailment of normalization deals, so be it. Israel should seek a deal that overcomes the problematic Saudi demand for an independent fuel cycle on the one hand, and minimizes the damage from the nuclear understandings with Iran on the other hand.

May 3, 2022 | Andrea Stricker |

Team Biden must stop Russia’s Iran deal

The Biden administration — which repeatedly asserts that it has adopted tough policies on Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine — plans to allow Moscow to receive a major economic windfall under a...

April 12, 2022 | Andrea Stricker |

How Russia Could Earn Billions From Biden’s Revival of the Nuclear Deal With Iran

The Biden administration has two goals that are at odds with each other. It wants to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia, and it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The problem is the 2015...

March 16, 2022 | Tony Badran |

Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine

The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran

February 14, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Bahrain chooses alignment with Israel over submission to Iran

Since the announcement of the Abraham Accords in August 2020, ties between Bahrain and Israel have grown steadily, reaching a milestone last week when an Israeli military aircraft, carrying Defense Minister...

October 22, 2019 | Mark Dubowitz, Henry Sokolski

The ultimate Middle East missile target: Nuclear reactors

What if a nuclear reactor had been the target of last month’s accurate missile attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities? We might now be mopping up a Middle East Chernobyl. The lesson should be clear: Don’t...

November 7, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer, Jacob Nagel

No Room for U.S. Concessions on Iran’s Civilian Nuclear Aims

Washington should return to its previous policy of preventing civilian advances.

January 10, 2017 | Olli Heinonen |

Iran Stockpiling Uranium Far Above Current Needs

In a televised speech on January 1, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...

September 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal, Sheryl Saperia

Greens Should Follow Germany’s Lead And Reject Israel Boycotts

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky. While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths,...

July 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German government agency involved in violation of Iran sanctions

Co-written by Bjorn Stritzel A German government quality control agency and a private certification agency that works with it both violated EU sanctions and the federal agency&r...

October 18, 2013 | |

Moscow’s American Uranium

By Matt Baker The state-owned Russian nuclear energy company that built Iran’s nuclear reactor in Bushehr is about to finalize a transaction that will give Russia absolute...

September 12, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

The Troika: Putin, Khamenei and Assad

If for no other reason, we should be grateful to the Russians for shining light on two of the recent mysteries surrounding Syria, and American policy, and for reminding us that you can't und...

September 11, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama’s Iran Blind Spot

In response to President Obama’s Syria speech about a deal with Russia confiscating the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government...

January 15, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Pilgrims or Mercenaries? Iranian Hostages Freed by Free Syrian Army

The Free Syrian Army last week released forty seven Iranian citizens and their Syrian...

October 15, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Will New EU Sanctions on Iran Count?

The European Union’s foreign ministers are slated to convene on Monday in Luxembourg to rubber-stamp a new round of energy sanctions on Iran’s vulnerable gas, financial and shipping s...

August 3, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Claremont Review of Books |

The New War Against America

Last January, President Obama went over to the Pentagon to announce deep cuts in defense. He took the occasion to proclaim: “Even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of...

July 30, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Obama Lost Poland

Can Romney win back America's old post-Cold War ally?

June 11, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The West Plays the Cuckold and Ignores Evidence of Iran’s Infidelity

AS negotiations over Iran's nuclear program are about to resume in Moscow next Monday, Western leaders insist that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has yet to make a decis...