Isolation at the U.N.
In defending the Iran nuclear deal to Congress, President Obama and his staff argued repeatedly that rejection would leave America in dire isolation at the United Nations. Obama can now relax. Ha...
Claudia Rosett
A New Low? UN Report Suggests Israel Caused Gaza’s Rising Infant Death Rate, Doesn’t Mention Hamas
File this one under “UN Sleaze,” or perhaps under “UNRWA’s Use of Dead Infants to Defend and Abet Terrorists.” Though even that may be putting it too mildly....
Op-eds
The Iran Nuclear Deal From Hell, and UN Ambassador Samantha Power in the Age of Genocide
Thirteen years ago, Samantha Power made a name for herself with her Pulitzer prize-winning book, “‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide.” In this book, sh...
Op-eds
Nuclear Extortion: Pioneered by North Korea, Perfected by Iran
With implications reaching far beyond the Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal opens the gates not to a safer world, but to proliferation on a scale likely to defy any peaceful efforts at containme...
Op-eds
Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia
Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Takeaway From The Iran Nuclear Talks
In defense of the Iran nuclear talks, Obama administration officials have made a number of unlikely claims, including the repeated proposition that under the current Tehran regime Iran’s nu...
Op-eds
Iran Shipping Sanctions Run Aground?
Officially, the Obama administration remains committed to enforcing sanctions on Iran’s main merchant shipping fleet, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, also known as IRISL. But i...
Op-eds
How Iran and North Korea Became Cyber-Terror Buddies
In late November 2014, cyber-warfare burst into the American public consciousness when Sony Pictures Entertainment was the victim of a massive cyber-attack. Hackers leaked Sony’s corporate...
Op-eds
Betting on Iran
Negotiations with Iran are set to conclude on Nov. 24th. What are the odds they will end with Iran’s rulers agreeing to verifiably dismantle their illicit nuclear weapons program...
Op-eds
Democracy in China?
Should it matter to the rest of us that Hong Kong has erupted this past week with demonstrations for democracy? China’s rulers say this is an internal matter. Western leaders, while express...
Op-eds
The U.N.: Clueless or Complicit in Gaza?
The United Nations has been quick to launch a special inquiry into I...
Op-eds
The U.N.’s Grotesque Gaza Inquiry
Bias against Israel is the most glaring problem with the new Gaza inquiry that the United Nations Human Rights Council launched last month. The council has appointed as its chief inv...
Op-eds
Bad Move to the U.N.
Having failed to produce a deal after six months of bargaining in Vienna, the Iran nuclear talks now appear headed for a venue even less auspicious for the U.S. and its allies: the United Nations...
Op-eds
North Korean Ship Tests the Waters Near America’s Shores
It’s not often that North Korean-flagged freighters turn up near America’s shores, but when they do, they deserve attention. North Korea has a prolific record of arms smuggling, narco...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Nuclear Fallout
For a rogue state under international sanctions, what is the penalty for threatening to carry out an illicit nuclear test? As North Korea is demonstrating, and Iran is no doubt closely observing,...
Op-eds
The Amazing Coincidences of Iran’s Javad Zarif
On Wednesday, in the Red Sea, Israeli commandos intercepted a freighter carrying a secret cargo of munitions loaded in Iran and hidden under bags of cement. The weaponry included dozens of Syrian...
Op-eds
College Campus Gives Iran Nuke Thug Hero’s Welcome
Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator, did not take questions from the international press while in Vienna last month for nuclear talks. But he did take time to...
Op-eds
The Twisted Conundrum of Funding the United Nations
In the long and bizarre history of America’s role at the United Nations, one especially poignant moment came in December 2007, with the passage of the organization’s multi-billion dol...
Op-eds
Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping in Lebanon
The Iranian-spawned terrorist group Hezbollah is smuggling advanced guided-missile systems into Lebanon, according to a report last week in...
Policy Briefs
Technology for Tyrants
It's well over a year since the United Nations intellectual property agency got caught undermining the U.N.’s own sanctions—shipping U.S.-origin computers and related high-tech e...