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June 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba Exploit the U.S. Border Crisis

Latin America’s authoritarians are cooperating to increase illegal immigration to the United States.

February 19, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How the US can ground Iran’s ‘terrorist airlines’

The Biden administration has a unique opportunity to step up its campaign against anti-American regimes in Venezuela, Iran and Nicaragua. Recent actions demonstrate that serious application...

June 11, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

America’s Power Competition Goes Awry in Lula’s Brazil

When the dust settles, the consequences of Lula’s approach will serve neither American interests nor Brazil’s.

April 26, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

What Is Venezuela Flying to Moscow?

Iran is a willing accomplice in the rape of Ukraine. Iranian drones have helped Russia sustain its terror attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets and infrastructure even as Russia’s arsenal became...

January 18, 2023 | Toby Dershowitz |

A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption

Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity...

November 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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.

November 10, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s terror drone pipeline to Moscow

On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide...

October 22, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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...

July 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz |

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...

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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?