Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...
David S. Cohen
No Such Thing As a Good Iranian Bank?
With a new round of talks underway this week in Vienna, American officials are brimming with optimism concerning the possibility of a nuclear deal by the summer. Worryingly, Iran appears poised t...
Op-eds
Kuwait’s Embattled Justice Minister Part of Deeper Terror Finance Problem
A contentious battle over Kuwait’s reported role in terrorism finance is currently playing out in public. Earlier this year, the Kuwaiti Amir appointed a highly questionable figure to run h...
Op-eds
Controversial Kuwaiti Minister Offers to Step Down
Nayef al-Ajmi, Kuwait’s controversial government minister,...
Policy Briefs
Negotiations on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation...
Congressional Testimonies
The Gold Rush in Tehran
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will be yucking it up at Davos this week, munching canapés, sh...
Op-eds
New Kuwaiti Justice Minister Has Deep Extremist Ties
Officials from over sixty countries gathered in Kuwait City yesterday for a United Nations donor conference, raising ...
Op-eds
Iran’s Turkish Gold Rush
Turkey's Islamist government is being rocked by the most sweeping corruption scandal of its tenure. Roughly two dozen figures, including well-connected business tycoons and the sons of top g...
Op-eds
The White House Can’t Have It Both Ways on Iran
Defying a White House veto threat, a bipartisan group of senators rolled out a new Iran sanctions bill Thursday that aims to give America more leverage at the negotiating table in the ongoing nuc...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Bipartisan Senate Sanctions Bill Against Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON -- In an effort to hold Iran accountable to the nuclear agreement it reached last month in Geneva with the P5+1 countries, a bipart...
Press Releases
Time for the EU to Outlaw All of Hezbollah
The European Union moved closer on Monday to sanctioning the Lebanese te...
Op-eds
Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from al Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria
Chairman King, Ranking Member Higgins and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda’s operations inside Iran and Syria. These ar...
Congressional Testimonies
Canadian Terror Plot Linked to al Qaeda in Iran
Canadian police officials have linked the plotting of two Muslim men to destroy a Toronto passenger train to al Qaeda's network inside Iran. The two suspects, neither of whom are Canadian ci...
Op-eds
US Targets Hezbollah’s Financial Arms in Lebanon
A move by the United States to designate two Lebanese exchange agencies as primary money launderers seeks to prevent Hezbollah from abusing the country’s financial system, said David Cohen,...
Op-eds
Why Doesn’t Europe Think Hezbollah Is a Terror Group?
The rift over counterterrorism strategy between the United States and its trans-Atlantic partners will likely be on display next week in Brussels, where European foreign ministers are slated to d...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Terrorism a Threat to Upstate NY
Are residents in Rochester and Buffalo vulnerable to terror attacks from the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization? Upstate New York Congressman Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, co-sponsored a bill with hi...
Op-eds
Joe Lieberman’s Legacy: The Battle Against Hezbollah
European officials can and must do more to root out the terrorist group.
Op-eds
Obama Needs to Push EU to Ban Hezbollah
Senator Joseph Lieberman (I., Conn.) sponsored a resolution earlier this month urging “the President to make available to European allies and the Europe...
Op-eds
America’s Enemies Are Getting Away with Murder
Fecklessness in response to attacks on Americans is a bipartisan tradition.
Op-eds
The Joint Iran and al-Qaida Operation Declares War
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comparison between al-Qaida and Iran during his September 27 address to the UN has garnered greater urgency since the US Treasury department on Thursday...